Hospitals: November 2011 Archives

Monday November 28, 2011

Park Your Frustration: Even More

As you know, last month, we devoted an entire show on the trials and tribulations of hospital parking.  The show generated the second highest number of emails, phone calls and blog posts in the history of White Coat, Black Art, as you can see by reading the hospital parking show mailbag.

Today, the Canadian Medical Association Journal weighed in on the subject of hospital parking with an editorial in the current edition.  In it, Dr. Rajendra Kale argues that parking fees are "a barrier to health care and add avoidable stress to patients who have enough to deal with."  He cited a case in which the search for a parking spot and the ongoing need to feed a parking meter interfered with a clinical consultation. 

"For example, some  patients (who have often waited several weeks to see a doctor) try to end a consultation abruptly when they realize they will have to pay for an additional hour for parking," writes Dr. Kale.

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Categories: Blog Archives, Hospitals, Policy & Regulation

 

Tuesday November 22, 2011

UK Report Slams Hospital Treatment of Seniors

By the year 2029, nearly one in three Canadians will be over the age of 65.  A recent British report paints a grim picture of the way seniors are cared for in British hospitals.  The report has some serious implications for hospitals here in Canada.

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Categories: Accountability, Blog Archives, Hospitals, Patient Safety

 

Thursday November 17, 2011

Emergency Rooms Must Deliver Palliative Care

Palliative care is a form of medicine that focuses not on curing disease but on relieving symptoms as well as suffering. A 2010 Canadian Senate report says ninety percent of Canadians could benefit from palliative medicine at one time or another in their lives.  Last week, a group in the US launched a program to improve access to palliative care for seriously ill patients in the ER.  I think the concept is long overdue.
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Categories: Accountability, Blog Archives, Health Professionals, Hospitals

 

• December 2011
  • Tue., 20 – Not the ER Mailbag
     
  • Fri., 16 – Not the ER Show
     
  • Thu., 15 – Park Your Frustration: Update
     
  • Wed., 14 – Unfinished Business Mailbag
     
  • Tue., 13 – Rescue on Hospital Grounds
     
• November 2011
  • Mon., 28 – Park Your Frustration: Even More
     
  • Tue., 22 – UK Report Slams Hospital Treatment of Seniors
     
  • Thu., 17 – Emergency Rooms Must Deliver Palliative Care
     
  • Tue., 15 – Park Your Frustration Mailbag
     
• October 2011
  • Fri., 28 – Park Your Frustration Show
     
  • Wed., 19 – Can We Talk? Mailbag
     
  • Fri., 14 – Can We Talk? Show
     
  • Wed., 12 – Respect Mailbag
     
  • Wed., 5 – Nelson Dream Team Mailbag
     
• September 2011
  • Fri., 30 – Nelson Dream Team Show
     
  • Fri., 16 – Nurse Bullying Show
     
• August 2011
  • Tue., 30 – Pulling the Plug: Why Hospitals Aren't on the Same Page
     
  • Wed., 10 – Do Mental Health Patients Fall Through the Cracks?
     
• July 2011
  • Tue., 12 – Beware of Small, Rural Hospitals
     
• June 2011
  • Fri., 24 – The Perils of Involving MDs in Crime Prevention
     
  • Wed., 22 – Sleepy Residents Mailbag
     
  • Thu., 9 – Mental Health Show Mailbag
     
  • Tue., 7 – For Whom the Patient Call Bell Tolls
     
  • Fri., 3 – Mental Health Show
     
  • Wed., 1 – Diseases That Get No Respect Mailbag
     
• May 2011
  • Wed., 18 – Nursing Home Violence Show Mailbag
     
• April 2011
  • Thu., 21 – Nurses and Physician Assistants: Make Nice and Get Along!
     
• March 2011
  • Tue., 29 – Taking Better Care of Seniors in the ER
     
  • Mon., 21 – An ER For Seniors is Long Overdue
     
  • Wed., 16 – Does Your Doctor Check Your Medical Tests?
     
  • Fri., 4 – A Leaky Medical Gadget?
     
  • Tue., 1 – Rrrrroll Up the Rrrrrim to Live?
     
• February 2011
  • Thu., 17 – Listen to Me Mailbag
     
  • Tue., 15 – Beware the Blood Test Not Checked
     
  • Fri., 11 – Listen to Me show
     
  • Mon., 7 – Reverse Medical Tourism?
     
• January 2011
  • Fri., 28 – Corridors of Medicine show
     
  • Thu., 27 – Hospital Fixer Mailbag
     
  • Mon., 24 – Why I Respect Eastern Health's CEO
     
  • Fri., 21 – The Hospital Fixer Show
     
  • Wed., 19 – Wednesday Mailbag
     
  • Tue., 18 – Surgeons Need Some Understanding
     
  • Thu., 13 – Thursday Mailbag
     
  • Tue., 11 – Prepare for H3N2 Seasonal Flu!
     
  • Mon., 10 – Patient Privacy: More to Come
     
  • Fri., 7 – Patient Privacy show
     
• December 2010
  • Sun., 26 – Medical Residents Talk About End of Life Issues
     
  • Wed., 22 – Sick or Lonely? Both Go to the ER
     
  • Mon., 20 – Knee-high Medicine - Advice for People with Clown Issues
     
  • Fri., 17 – Knee-high Medicine show
     
  • Fri., 3 – The Stress Show
     
  • Thu., 2 – Sneak Peek: Public Health, Private Lives
     
• November 2010
  • Fri., 26 – Time to Mention the Unmentionables
     
  • Wed., 24 – Wednesday Mailbag
     
  • Thu., 18 – Thursday Mailbag
     
  • Tue., 16 – Can Doctors Impose Do Not Resuscitate Orders? They Can
     
  • Fri., 12 – In Sickness and In Health
     
  • Wed., 10 – Wednesday Mailbag
     
  • Tue., 9 – Duty to Refuse Death-Delaying Treatment?
     
  • Fri., 5 – Healthy Design
     
  • Fri., 5 – More From Our Residents' Panel on End-of-Life
     
• October 2010
  • Fri., 29 – When Your Life is Circling The Drain Episode
     
  • Thu., 28 – Thursday Mailbag
     
  • Tue., 26 – ER Wait: Shame on ERs!
     
  • Fri., 22 – Sex, Lies and Medical Mistakes Episode
     
  • Wed., 20 – Wednesday Mailbag
     
  • Sat., 16 – 'To Err is Medicine' Townhall Episode
     
  • Thu., 14 – Sneak Preview of Our Medical Errors Town Hall
     
  • Tue., 12 – Town Hall Tonight
     
  • Thu., 7 – To Err is Medicine? Anatomy of a Modern Problem
     
• September 2010
  • Tue., 21 – My Book: 'The Night Shift - Real Life in the Heart of the ER'
     
  • Tue., 21 – Where the environmental rubber hits the road....
     
  • Fri., 17 – Hospitals Go Green on WCBA
     
  • Mon., 13 – Sneak Peek at WCBA's Next Show on Green Hospitals
     
  • Tue., 7 – Euthanasia Debate Heats Up in Quebec
     
• August 2010
  • Wed., 11 – Medical Errors: a list you don't want to ignore
     
• July 2010
  • Wed., 21 – Tasers in the ER? You've got to be Kidding!