The key elements of the practice—compassion, multi-disciplinary teamwork, robust huddles, story-telling and person-centered care–—can be applied everywhere.
Blog Category: Letters from the Foundation
Flipping the EHR: A Trust Builder
Over the next several weeks, I will devote this letter to writing about the winners of the ABIM Foundation’s recent Trust Practice Challenge.
Eroding Trust and Conflicts of Interest
In 2006, the ABIM Foundation and the Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP), a non-profit health care think tank based at Columbia University, made a bold move to publicly confront the issue of physician conflict of interest (COI) and expose its threat to medical professionalism. A panel assembled by the Foundation and IMAP published… Read more »
A Choosing Wisely Story: Respectful and Trusting Conversations
While recruiting specialty societies to the Choosing Wisely campaign about six years ago, I attended a board meeting of a surgical specialty society. I had flown to Chicago to meet with the society’s board as it considered whether to join the campaign. The one question board members had for me was: What happens when a… Read more »
Trust and Direct-to-Consumer Medicine: A Prescription for Trouble?
What disturbs me about online retail medicine is the lack of face-to-face conversation between the patient and the clinician.