When doctors learned to speak carbon

It's Time for Doctors to Speak Out on Climate Change.

When Organizations Speak: Isomorphism and Organizational Language

This work was supported in part by the center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems at Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.casos.ece.cmu.edu ), the National Science Foundation Grant No. ITR/IM IIS-0081219 and an NSF Dissertation Grant on Organizational Isomorphism. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the author and should not be interpr...

When Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Through the lens of a study exploring dementia care partnering, the purpose of this methods article is to focus on the role of artifacts and embodied data in data collection. In addition, it illustrates how to use a range of data collecting methods. The article identifies benefits of additional data collecting methods to research and care. These include the need to expand data collecting method...

When Patients Speak—Collaboration in Patient Safety

T he patient is one of the most important allies in reducing medical errors. Research indicates that when patients actively participate in their overall healthcare management, medical errors are reduced. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) reports have supported this concept, as well. To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System not only reported that as many as 98,000 deaths occur annually due ...

Doctors must speak out over war and humanitarian crises.

Researchers have identified a common pathway in the brain for Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, supporting clinical observations of the simultaneous appearance of symptoms of both in some patients. The β amyloid peptides that accumulate in Alzheimer’s disease plaques also increase the build up of the α synuclein protein, which is characteristic of the brains of patients with Parkinso...