Over on the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford blog, writer Julie Greicius highlights an elective program at Stanford's medical school that fosters personal connections between …
Category: Patient Care
Medicine X symposium focuses on how patients, providers and entrepreneurs can ignite innovation
A special Medicine X event on Sept. 4 will explore how patients, providers and entrepreneurs can help ignite innovation in the health-care industry. During the …
“Liberated from LVAD support”: One patient’s story
One of the first things I noticed about Donna Jackson -- 68 years old when I met her in 2011 -- was her decisive nature. …
TV spot features a more humane approach to late-stage cancer care
Updated 8-4-14: The video is no longer posted on the Al Jazzera website, but the online story is still available. *** 7-30-14: Is it possible …
Medicine X spotlights mental health, medical team of the future and the “no-smartphone” patient
Innovative thinkers and thought leaders engaged in using emerging technologies to enhance health-care delivery and advance the practice of medicine will gather here in early …
More on the Navy pilot with mysterious symptoms – and the Stanford doctors who diagnosed him
Last week, we blogged about a Navy pilot whose mysterious symptoms were diagnosed by clinicians here. A just-published Stanford Hospital video shares more of Robert Buchanan's …
On death and dying: A discussion of giving news that no family members want to hear
The standing room only crowd at the Stanford Humanities Center had come to hear physicians read their own writing about the most difficult of topics: …
Medical mystery solved: Stanford clinicians identify source of Navy pilot's puzzling symptoms
Talk about medical mysteries: For two years, Navy pilot Robert Buchanan was plagued with symptoms like an irregular heartbeat, a drooping eyelid, hypersensitive sinuses, jaw …
"As a young lung cancer patient, I had to find my own path": Fighting stage IV with full force
We've partnered with Inspire, a company that builds and manages online support communities for patients and caregivers, to launch a patient-focused series here on Scope. …
Man on a mission: Working to help veterans who have lost limbs
The student riding the Segway stands out on the bicycle-laden Stanford campus. His short hair and erect bearing suggest he is a veteran. The prosthetic …
New study shows standardization makes hospital hand-offs safer
A study published online this week in Pediatrics offers encouraging results from a large-scale effort to tackle a persistent safety problem in hospitals. The study …
Empowered is as empowered does: Making a choice about living with lupus
We've partnered with Inspire, a company that builds and manages online support communities for patients and caregivers, to launch a patient-focused series here on Scope. …
Listening to the stethoscope's vitals
"What will happen to bookshelves?", bibliophiles lamented with the ascent of the e-book, mourning the loss of the feel of paper pages between their fingers …
6-year-old Palestinian boy learning to walk after treatment at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
Hadi Alkhadra is a small boy with a huge grin. He's got reason to smile: After living for years with a severe congenital defect that …
Living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: “Sometimes I just don’t have it in me to be inspirational”
We've partnered with Inspire, a company that builds and manages online support communities for patients and caregivers, to launch a patient-focused series here on Scope. …
Reflections on dying, contained in 140 characters
A piece on Medium.com shows how boundaries, such as the 140-character limit of a tweet, can provide stability and comfort during times of uncertainty. Writer …