Media Article: Get Paid for Pretending to be a Patient
By: Chuck Otto
Submitted by: Cindy Bartman, Grand Valley State University
I’m a familiar face around my city’s medical center, where some know me as that closeted gay man who infected his wife with HIV or the hostile employee who physically threatened a co-worker in an act of road rage or the bipolar cocaine addict. Read the full Next Avenue article here.
Media Article: Improving Surgeon-Patient Communication About High-Risk Surgery
Commentary by: Betty Ferrell
Submitted by: Valerie Fulmer, University of Pittsburgh
Best Case/Worst Case Communication - This novel project targets an important yet difficult clinical scenario: counseling patients facing high-risk surgery. To improve surgeon-patient communication in these situations, Kruser and colleagues developed a training program based on a "best case/worst case" (BC/WC) communication tool.
SP Video: Why Hospitals Hire People to Fake Being Sick
Submitted by: Marlena Dater, C3NY
This video was originally featured on seeker.com, which is a Discovery Channel website. The video about how medicine is taught by employing professional actors to act as sick patients in hospitals was part of an episode of their “Seeker Stories” web series about interesting and unheard-of stories. The video can serve as an introduction or as part of orientation to what SPs do. Watch the full video on YouTube here.
Media Article: I’ve seen over 8000 medical professionals – here’s what I’ve learned
By: Esther Covington
Submitted By:Todd Lash, Publications Committee Chair
Today, I am a 40-year old with type 2 diabetes. I have been on glyburide since I was diagnosed four years ago and am otherwise healthy, although my blood pressure today is 140/96. I don’t check my glucose levels at home because I don’t have a monitor. Typically, I avoid sweets, but my diet is high in natural sugars, carbohydrates and starches. The only exercise I get is walking around on the floor of my retail sales job. My diabetic mother died of kidney failure, and I don’t want that to happen to me, which is why I’m seeing my doctor today.Read the full article here.