With growing health care costs and – according to the Institute of Medicine – the large amounts of unnecessary health care spending, will penny-pinching bring a paradigm-shift in health care? And if so, what forms of care will that include? Eric Bashor in the Christian Science Press Room discusses this issue in a short video, with a concluding
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The Michigan Legislature passed a resolution recognizing National Nurses Week – May 6-12 – here in Michigan. It points out that the “146,488 nurses in Michigan comprise the largest group of health care professionals in the state.” And it calls on the residents of Michigan to honor our nurses and appreciate their efforts to improve the health of our state.
I’d especially like to honor the recognition by most nurses of the value of spirituality and spiritual care in nursing.
Here are some examples in which this is evident:
How can changing our ideals bring excellence to health care? Russ Gerber takes up this question in a recent in-depth article in The Washington Times entitled, “First, health care excellence” – apparently inspired by a question asked at a recent talk sponsored by the Harvard Medical School. Gerber draws some interesting lessons from placebos and the
Perhaps her prominence in the field of health is sometimes overlooked because of her historical association with a religion and the fact that medicine and medical research, in her day especially, were almost exclusively the purview of men.
In celebration of Women’s History Month the Huffington Post ran an article last month with pictures of “50 Women Who Shaped America’s Health“. Numerous comments were shared online noting that this list is incomplete.
The Huffington Post listened and added 5 more women taken from their readers’ input. That makes this list 50+5.
Certainly there are many more. But here’s one woman that surely should be included in the field of health – Mary Baker Eddy.
Fifteen years ago the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed adding the word “spiritual” to the definition of health contained in their constitution – at the time, a significant change for an organization created to coordinate and improve medical and health services around the globe. Sunday, April 7, World Health Day commemorates the creation of the
Here are three articles in the news this month that indicate a growing cultural change in the use of drugs for health. (1) Heart Drugs: Too Many Medication Types Are Compromising Health, Doctors Say From Reuters, by Debra Sherman, posted on HuffingtonPost.com, March 13, 2013 Excerpts: “We are eager to add medicines and reluctant to take
In our health care system here in the U.S., where we spend more and get less than other “industrial” nations, many are looking for alternatives – and spending out-of-pocket for them. In this short video, Eric Bashor in the Christian Science Press Room presents the main ideas from a piece in Psychology Today by Russ Gerber entitled, It’s Never
Our health care system here in the U.S. is often compared and contrasted with the Canadian system that provides universal coverage. Each system has its virtues and its challenges. Canadian health blogger Wendy Margolese from Toronto, Ontario, Canada recently wrote an interesting piece on Simcoe.com entitled, “Canadian Medicare: More Care in our Health Care System”.
How much airtime does an issue need before that sets fire to our commitment for change? The award-winning documentary movie Escape Fire: The Fight To Rescue American Healthcare, until recently, has received relatively small attention. Jeff Zucker, president of CNN Worldwide, said, “The physical health of our nation and the cost of healthcare, impact every current
Have you ever been in pain and wanted to escape the discomfort? CNN aired the documentary movie Escape Fire: The Fight To Rescue American Healthcare Sunday night (and they will rebroadcast it Saturday, March 16 at 8:00 p.m. ET and again at 11:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m.) The inspiration for the title of the movie comes