Time for doctors (and patients) to put on the brakes.
Tag: Medicine
Slow Medicine
The medical world is ripe for a Slow revolution.
The magic of the mea culpa
Why it’s good to own up to mistakes in order to learn from them. Medicine is a good place to start…
The Slow Fix for health
Check out my blog post on what THE SLOW FIX (published today!) means for health.
Slow Medicine on the rise
A hard-hitting editorial from the BMJ on why the medical world needs to embrace the “slow fix.”
Patience for Spanish patients
Just got back from giving a talk in Barcelona. Love that city, even in the rain. But the trip there was dreadful thanks to the snow that paralyzed the trains and the airports in Britain – lots of bad slow. Along the way I discovered that Spanish doctors, fed up with the constant pressure to hurry patients through the system as quickly as possible, are fighting back. They want more time in order to do their job properly. To that end, they are demanding a minimum of 10 minutes with each patient. There is a campaign group called Plataforma 10 Minutos and you can find out more by clickingHERE.