Dr. Jan Gurley is a board-certified internist physician who writes regularly at Doc Gurley: Posts from an Insane Healthcare System
This year’s Health 2.0 codeathon was markedly different from last year’s because the global competition judging was up first – the first ever Developers World Cup. Teams from as far away as Fukushima and Stockholm had flown in for this final judging. My fellow judges include Sastry Nanduri, Gretchen Wustrack, Forrest King from Novartis, Michelle […]
An influential panel at the CDC, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has recommended that Whooping Cough (Pertussis) vaccinations be extended to all adults as well, including those aged over 65. The recommendation is in part because it is recognized that adults get the disease and then pass it to children and infants. The […]
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
I’ve written before about obesity issues — mostly related to soda and diet soda (the message — even diet soda isn’t good for you — try to drink water instead) and also that even being a little overweight can still result in health problems. But a new study, coming out of the National Longitudinal Study […]
I am a big fan of some vitamin supplements — notably vitamin D — which many people living urban lives tend to get significantly too little of. But there is some recent bad news about vitamin supplements. The first piece is that a large study suggests that there is a very slight link between taking […]
I spent the much of the weekend at a special event preceding this year’s Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco that started last night. This was the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Code-a-thon. I made a short presentation on Saturday and got asked to be a judge on Sunday. The event runs for two days and […]
Last time I wrote about Whooping Cough (Pertussis) was in the Summer of 2010, right in the middle of a big outbreak in California. It turns out that a group did a big study using that very outbreak to look at the Whooping Cough vaccine and its effectiveness. The study expected to find that the […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
I wrote the following post one year ago and pretty much nothing has changed except that we have had plenty of other disasters for emergency workers to react and respond to. I can’t think of anything better than to repeat my post from last year and renew the call for a day to honor emergency […]
This is one in a series of articles, running the five weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Ken sleeps under a sheltered overhang in the Financial District, an area full of sun-glinting towers and chic lunchtime hot-spots. Without a home and a sink, Ken is utterly dependent on the cheapest of prepared food options.
This is one in a series of articles, running the 5 weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Nate, a self-described "Tenderloin rat," talks about having trained in the Navy, working on submarine sonar systems, then coming home to be employed by his wife’s wealthy family.
Despite the influx of police, the second man hadn't fled -- he was going to the hospital. He stood, swaying a bit, the blanket-cape of paramedic-care draped across his shoulders. The weepy woman still clung to him, her thin arms tight as a belt around his waist, her head pressed tight to his breastbone. He had tears on his cheeks, and the woman was muttering, "You almost died," over and over. He was alive, truly, because of her.
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I went to needle exchange to hang out. You may be asking yourself what a soccer mom from the burbs is doing perched on a folding chair in the parking garage of 101 Grove on a dark November night surrounded by syringes. Basically, I was looking for death on the streets.
Last week at the Health 2.0 conference I got the chance to talk with Sean Nolan of Microsoft about the work the company is doing in information technology for healthcare and electronic medical records and other related fields. Microsoft has created a technology called HealthVault and you my interview with Sean Nolan is embedded below.
In the intersection of online communities and health, Health 2.0 focused a session on behavior change. With so many of our chronic diseases due to lifestyle choices, online communities and tools hold the promise to help people make small, hard, and sustained incremental steps. The session reviewed some recent approaches, and online tools, and the key to their success.
Is it just me, or have stories about doctors behaving badly become so commonplace that it feels like we need a new, amped-up phrase. Something that would better encapsulate the orgy of vile behavior that reflects poorly on the rest of my profession, thereby costing us all a chunk of our self-respect. Maybe something lighthearted? How about Docs Gone Wild?
Here's your multiple choice question to set the stage: what percentage of all physicians do you think should be sued for malpractice? Would you say one-in-10 doctors ought to be sued? Or one-third? How about every single one of them? Answer: There's basically one claim per doctor being filed in America right now.