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Medical Professionalism in Action
As we all know, this is a time of great challenge and introspection in our health care system. Not just in terms of health reform – although that has been the catalyst for several critically important conversations over the last two years. I’m referring to a broader reexamination of how we deliver care in America [...]
In Defense of Doctors’ Feelings
An op-ed piece written by by Danielle Ofri in the March 28 edition of the New York Times relays the emotional toll having “difficult conversations” with patients can have on a physician. In one anecdote, Dr. Ofri mentions that she, and the rest of the patient’s health care team “fell short of the Charter on [...]
Putting the Charter into Practice Grantee: Johns Hopkins Bayview
This is the fourth in a series of posts written by the ABIM’s Foundation’s Putting the Charter into Practice grantees, which describes their motivation to pursue projects related to stewardship of resources. Based on past experiences, both my co-investigator, Marc Larochelle, and I had an interest in improving stewardship of health care resources. Our paths [...]
Putting the Charter into Practice Grantee: University of Minnesota’s Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
This is the third in a series of posts written by the ABIM Foundation’s Putting the Charter into Practice grantees, which describes their motivation to pursue projects related to stewardship of resources. When you ask people why they want to be doctors, nearly every answer includes a variation on the theme “to help people.” From [...]
Putting the Charter into Practice Grantee: National Physicians Alliance
This is the second in a series of posts written by the ABIM Foundation’s Putting the Charter into Practice grantees, which describes their motivation to pursue projects related to stewardship of resources. I’ve been interested in good stewardship as long as I can remember. It must be connected to the admonishments of my parents not [...]
Putting the Charter into Practice Grantee: Costs of Care
This is the first in a series of posts written by the ABIM’s Foundation’s Putting the Charter into Practice grantees, which describes their motivation to pursue projects related to stewardship of resources. As a medical student, I heard murmurs in hospital wards about certain services being expensive or potentially uncovered. But I never imagined how [...]
Introducing the 2011 Putting the Charter into Practice Grantees
The ABIM Foundation’s Putting the Charter into Practice (PCIP) program, a partnership with the Council of Medical Specialty Societies, provides grants every two years to organizations to advance the principles and commitments of the Physician Charter. For our last round of grants in 2009, projects addressed a wide variety of professionalism issues. In 2011, we [...]
Experience Trumps Policy in Changing Our Health Care Beliefs
Every day in the U.S. countless experts discuss plans and policies to contain the cost of health care using words and concepts that run counter to our (the public’s) experiences with finding and using care. Most of us ignore the steady stream of proposals until one political party or the other crafts an inflammatory meme [...]
Forum 2011, Day 1: Incredible, Challenging Plenary Speakers Create a Framework
In previous posts I have written about my hopes for the 2011 ABIM Foundation Forum, which began today. Each year national leaders in medicine, patient advocacy, government, business and health systems gather to discuss and identify what they can do individually and collectively to address a single issue related to medical professionalism. This year’s Forum [...]
The Divided Self No More
The ABIM Foundation convened a group of health care stakeholders in Madison, Wisconsin to learn more about how they think and act about the “wise and effective management of limited health care resources,” as stated in the Physician Charter. When we convened this group of stakeholders in Madison, we didn’t know what exactly to expect. [...]
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