Calling on Medical Improv to Help an Inconsolable Patient
Find your next healthcare job today! Gert was admitted to the locked dementia unit where I was working as a charge nurse on the evening shift. In her late seventies and with progressing Alzheimer’s disease,...
How Aware Are You of Your Own Mental Health?
These are questions we ask our patients, but rarely ask ourselves. How would we rate our mood on a scale of zero to ten? Have we e...
Is It Chronic Pain or Drug-Seeking Behavior?
Current healthcare headlines frequently contain two words: opioid epidemic. As VOX recently reported, the number of opioid use dis...
Managing Mental Health in Primary Care
With more than 25 years as a clinical psychologist, Margaret Backman, Ph.D., formerly of New York City, remembers getting a referr...