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The Washington Post
You know how it feels. You wake up not feeling well, and then you decide that you need to go to the doctor. You know when you drag yourself into the waiting room, it's going to be just that — a wait. Until you get to see the doctor. Until the doctor will see you face-to-face to help diagnose what ails you and, hopefully, prescribes a course of action (medication?) to get you on the mend. But what you might not know is that there is a whole industry set up to help train doctors to deal with that face-to-face interaction. They use fake patients.
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Chicago Tribune
What affects 20 million people, robs the global economy of billions of dollars and can be fixed with a 5-minute procedure?
The answer is cataract blindness. The disease, which begins with clouding of the eyes and can lead to loss of vision without treatment, will probably afflict 12 million more people by 2020, as a shortage of skilled doctors limits access to care in developing nations, according to the Rand Corporation.
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Medical News Today
Might it be possible to identify and then reach out to help medical students whose actions may put them at risk of lapses in professionalism in medical school and beyond? Professionalism lapses are the most common cause for disciplinary action against practicing physicians.
A new study from the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute is one of the first to provide quantitative evidence to support anecdotal claims linking reflective ability of medical students and professional behaviors of future physicians.
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Heavy workloads, long hours and excessive tech-based tasks are leading to more burnout among physicians, according to a recent study by WebMD subsidiary Medscape. It's even causing doctors have deeper biases against certain patient groups.
Burnout, as defined by Medscape, is a loss of enthusiasm for work, depersonalization and a low sense of personal accomplishment. It's become so common it's even got its own ICD-10 code, described in that classification system as a "state of vital exhaustion."
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The New American
Emergency rooms across the country are facing a severe shortage of drugs, many of which are necessary to save lives — and, as usual, government is largely to blame.
According to the Washington Post, "A new study published in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine shows that drug shortages in ERs across the United States increased by more than 400 percent between 2001 and 2014."
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EMS1.com
The National Patient Safety Foundation published a follow-up report to the now famous Institute of Medicine's "To Err Is Human." The new report, "Free from Harm," calls attention to the patient safety lessons learned over the past decade and a half, as well as reminding health care providers that many of the same issues initially spotlighted still remain. Although EMS is not specifically mentioned in the report, given the increased focus that the care continuum receives, it stands to reason that EMS is clumped with other outpatient providers.
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By Anne Rose
 If your staff is underperforming and not meeting your expectations, maybe you should take a look at your behavior and see if it's in sync with the messages you're giving out. When there is a disconnect between what the boss says and what the boss does, your staff will always give more weight to the boss's behavior. Inconsistency with policies and expectations tells your staff you don't know what you're doing, you don't care what they're doing, or you're volatile as a supervisor.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
Look at Victoria long enough, and she'll blink. Nearby, her buddy HAL, who lost his legs due to some unspecified accident, takes a deep breath.
Throughout Hall D at the downtown San Diego Convention Center recently, these little actions brought slightly unnerved smiles to people unaccustomed to the latest level of realism in medical simulation.
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The new Simulation Education Solutions for Nursing (SESN) program, launched in partnership by the National League for Nursing (NLN) and Laerdal Medical, helps nursing programs successfully implement highly effective simulation training. Take the “Got Simulation” survey to see how your quality indicators compare to industry best practice.
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Focused on assisting hospitals to better maximize their investment in robotic surgery, Mimic has over ten years of experience providing tools and support for robotic surgery training and program management.
Mimic’s robotic surgery simulation training helps surgeons learn in a safe environment, faster and more efficiently while working towards proficiency.
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By Scott E. Rupp
 The results of the 2016 HIMSS Health Information Technology Value survey show that 88 percent of organizations with advanced electronic health record environments identified at least one positive outcome from their use of an EHR. This is the feedback from 52 senior IT leaders at some of the most technologically advanced hospitals and organizations in the nation — representing the best of the breed, in other words, according to HIMSS.
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HealthLeaders Media
From increasing access to influencing better patient outcomes, health systems are recognizing the benefits of virtual patient visits and remote monitoring — and finding ways to mitigate the costs.
Some patients are harder to reach than others. Refusing to turn on his webcam, one telemedicine patient insisted on communicating only using the chat box on his provider's mobile app.
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