Oct. 1, 2013Tuesday communicationpatient care ‘Go on’ Empathy in 60 seconds: Practical tips to improve bedside manner Interested in taking your bedside manner to the next level? An expert shares tips you can start using today.
April 26, 2013Friday Hero Next Doororgan donationpatient care Gift of life Transplant surgeon inspires admiration from patients, colleagues Alan N. Langnas, DO, who heads a renowned transplantation program in Nebraska, fell into the field by chance.
April 24, 2013Wednesday disaster medicinepatient care Local hero DO at center of West, Texas, explosion recounts night of horror As the town’s EMS director, George N. Smith, DO, coordinated disaster relief efforts following the explosion.
April 17, 2013Wednesday blogspatient care Online care The story of my life: DOs blog about health, illness and more Seeking to connect with patients, increase awareness of health issues and process their own struggles, blogger DOs take to the Web.
April 3, 2013Wednesday chronic disease managementpatient care Getting results Small steps to get healthy: How DOs inspire behavior changes in patients Physicians can boost patient compliance by listening and leading by example, says endocrinologist Kari A. Hortos, DO.
March 29, 2013Friday obstetrics-gynecologypatient carereligionwork-life balance Divine intervention Keeping the faith: What happens when religion and medicine intersect? Medicine poses challenges to devout Jewish and Christian physicians. Here’s how some DOs reconcile their profession with their beliefs.
Feb. 1, 2013Friday osteopathic medical educationpatient care Tuning into Health UMDNJ-SOM’s music medicine program strikes a chord Combine one experimental treatment with one passionate professor and two Grammy nominations; you’ll get a music medicine program.
March 16, 2012Friday advocacypatient care An eye for advocacy Q&A: Spirited, Vietnam-born TCOM grad takes no freedoms for granted ”Here, we have freedom of speech and freedom of the press,” says the blogging, letter-to-the-editor-writing ophthalmologist Tayson DeLengocky, DO.
Feb. 29, 2012Wednesday graduate medical educationpatient caretechnology Simulating care NYCOM launches nation’s first master’s program in health care simulations Medical simulation is one of health care’s most innovative fields—but not for reasons you might think.
April 1, 2011Friday patient care Aging gracefully DOs gauge risks of cognitive decline in older physicians While a correlation exists between aging and impairment, age alone is a poor predictor of physician competence, some DOs say.