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Posted on: Mon, 02/13/2012 - 6:34pm
My Patient Safety Checklist and Tools to Use
Patient Safety Checklists Save Lives
If you are a patient in the hospital, use this checklist to prevent life-threatening medical errors. read more »
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Posted on: Sat, 10/15/2011 - 2:16pm
My HYSTERical HYSTERectomy
To try to lighten this up a bit, here's a story from the Mardy history shelves: In response to Martine Ehrenclou's wonderful piece about older patients in the hospital needing health advocates/helpers: I must have been "OLDER" five years ago when I had a hysterectomy because I needed an advocate!
I actually had one, a friend who was knowledgeable about hospitals and process and was a manager and could speak up and all the things I think a person ideally needs to have as 'soft skills' to navigate what I affectionately call 'the mangling medicine maze'. read more »
Posted on: Sat, 10/15/2011 - 12:54pm
Older Patients Are At Risk in the Hospital: How to Advocate
Older Patients Are At Risk in the Hospital - How To Be An Advocate for Your Parent, Grandparent, Spouse or Other Older Loved One read more »
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Posted on: Thu, 10/13/2011 - 6:51pm
Older Patients Are At Risk in the Hospital: How to Advocate
Older Patients Are At Risk in the Hospital - How To Be An Advocate for Your Parent, Grandparent, Spouse or Other Older Loved One
You might think that admitting an older adult to the hospital is as simple as dropping them off at "Admitting" and allowing the hospital staff to take care of the rest. Think again. Older adults desperately need your help because a hospital stay can be fraught with medical errors, medication mistakes, falls, infectious diseases and a host of other life threatening events. read more »
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Posted on: Tue, 08/16/2011 - 10:26am
When and HOW to Get a Second Opinion, Expert Answer from Author of "Critical Conditions - The Essential Hospital Guide"
I received a question from someone through the Contact Us function which was related to getting a second opinion. In this case it was someone who was recently diagnosed with Grave's Disease (a hyperthyroid condition; Barbara Bush, made it 'famous' or is what a lot of people relate to regarding it). read more »
Third Anniversary of Hysterectomy Hassles
Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 11:00 pm, by Mardy Ross
Today I'm going to keep this rather easy on me because yesterday I had a really interesting treatment from what is known as a cranial osteopath and while I felt fine yesterday, today I felt like I was needing to regroup a bit (plus I had a few extra things on my plate today earlier). I thought it was pretty neat that three years to the day that I had surgery in the osteopathic hospital in Grand Junction (performed by an MD, however, a really wonderful OB-GYN who I am glad to say I haven't had to see for a while, though I miss his FUN way of treating patients), I was having someone wor read more »
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