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As a product, you want efficiency and predictability. Those are the 2 most important to business according to any C-suite type. This means when you ask AI for a list of doctors within your specific 3 tank range, you should ask it to find doctors with dozens or even a hundred clocks in their office. Empathy is the antithesis to efficiency and predictability, no one wants that.
While Enhanced Care models clearly define how clinicians and other providers collaborate with each other, they do not describe how patients want and need to actively collaborate with their healthcare teams in goal setting, decision-making, and ongoing care management. After all, most of my healthcare is practiced and executed outside of a hospital, doctor’s office, or any other formalized…
Patient-centered care is not defined by convenience, adoption rates, or valuation. It is defined by who bears the risk when incentives collide. If AI tools in healthcare are funded by advertising that benefits third parties more than patients, then we should stop calling them patient-centered. They may still be useful. They may still be innovative. But honesty matters—especially when the cost of…
As we all know, artificial intelligence (AI) is the newest latest crazy in healthcare right now. All players in healthcare are now utilizing this technology, even chronic pain patients such a myself. Despite its popularity and increasing utilization, so many posts are from people with some measure of expertise in technology or AI I’ve found. I’m not one of those patients. If you are new here, I’m…
Dad would be the first to admit he could have been a better father, coworker, human. He was incredibility hard on himself and expected others to be just as hard on themselves which is where I get this characteristic from. For dad, perfection wasn’t an ideal it was the minimal standard of acceptance. That said, dad knew that he had a great life and that my brother and I turned out ok. In the end,…
Your story doesn’t need to be tidy. It doesn’t need to follow a structure. It does need to be told over and over in your voice, in different ways, with different tools and styles. At the heart of healthcare isn’t just data or protocol. It’s us. Without our stories there would be no life to medicine. The more honest, messy, and fully lived our stories are, the more human the system becomes.…
So, here’s the big picture: treatment is part of the definition of being a patient. It matters. And telling our full stories—the good, the bad, the gnarly—is how we make medicine more human. And in a world where impersonal artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming as common as a band aid, we need to continue to do all we can to keep the humanity in medicine.
Simply put, exercise works. Not only does it make us look better naked which gives us the confidence for selfies (like I said if you are into that kink ), it helps with disease management while at the same time providing some measure of pain relief. Like with any everything else in medicine, there is some risk or potential for side effects, but they are usually easy to manage. Movement is…
Balance is a verb, somedays I’m going to fall and even fall hard because of my chronic pain levels. There is no way to avoid this aspect of chronic pain, so the best I can do is prepare.
Pain shares many similarities with hunger. For example, hunger is both an acute and chronic condition, just like pain. In this analogy, opioids are like eating three meals a day. Steroid injections, trigger point injections, and radiofrequency ablations are like eating out at a fancy restaurant or at grandma’s house. Even working out, going to the gym, hiking, spending time with family and…
