BUILD provides opportunities for young adults to find their footing and self-confidence through entrepreneurship. We need them. Betsy Neptune tells us more. Proem I feel joy when my many worlds overlap, collide, and mush together. Upon reflection, of course, how could they not? Health touches everything, especially in its absence. Music…

10 years of blogging and podcasting. Planting, fertilizing, growing, harvesting. Questions asked and answered about process, motivation, and future direction. Proem A slew of questions about my podcasting process came across my channels after I published episode 171: 50 and 70. Connection and Age. Spiritual Strength. How big is your team…

Cost & quality. Compare & risk adjust. Measurement that serves people is complex, fraught, in its infancy. Chat with Dr. Bob Phillips to make some sense of it. Cost & quality. Compare & risk adjust. Measurement that serves people is complex, fraught, in its infancy. Chat with Dr. …

2-legged, cisgender, white man of privilege turning 70 enjoying life with friends of 50+ years. Still kicking-sort of-still enjoying life. Intentional families. Old friends, old me

Introducing 3 generations of Danny van Leeuwen’s. Inclusive, blood, intentional family lore. Spiritual health can come from family. From the Holocaust to today. Proem I talked about the magic levers of best health in my first blog posts in 2012 — ten years and 535 posts and episodes ago — pretty…

Patients, care partners & clinicians can reduce record errors with collaborative notes. Dr. Peter Elias shares his note-writing with collaborative partners. Proem Expecting an error-free medical record seems unreasonable — too many opportunities, too many forces, too many players, too many perspectives. Not having error prevention and correction hardwired into our…

How can medical document errors become easy to fix, everywhere the error lives, & fit in the workflow? Virginia Lorenzi and HL7’s Patient Empowerment Workgroup. Proem My father died when he was 45 of his second heart attack. I have multiple sclerosis. These don’t seem connected. Heart disease is hereditary, but…

An epidemic of burnout among health workers. Learn about the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s solutions 6 pillars and 3 teaching axioms from Dr. Robyn Tiger. Proem On the second day of my first management gig as nurse manager of an ICU, I noticed that staff nurses seldom took breaks (bathroom…

From Here to There: Accessibility on the Camino de Santiago Managing rural and urban travel on the Camino de Santiago with my set of abilities. Roots, dips, inclines, Roman roads, elevators. falls. We did 170 miles (I did 70). A hoot and a half. I’m back. What an adventure along the coast of Portugal and Spain to Santiago de Compostela…