Sheila Crow, PhD
Sheila Crow is a professor of pediatrics and a medical educator.
Conditions
I spent thirty years in academic medicine as a dean for faculty affairs and development, training physicians to be not just clinically competent but genuinely patient-centered and thorough. I believed in the system I helped build. I still do, mostly.…
I spent thirty years in academic medicine as a dean for faculty affairs and development, training physicians to be not just clinically competent but genuinely patient-centered and thorough. I believed in the system I helped build. I still do, mostly. But I am also a patient. And as a patient, the system failed me for fifteen years, not through negligence, but through something quieter and harder to fix.
Fragmentation.
The history
In 2005 …
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When fragmented care misses pancreatic enzyme insufficiency
Physicians
Caring for patients is not only a clinical endeavor, it is also an ethical one. Patient care and ethics are woven together as an integral part of every doctor-patient encounter. Medical schools have traditionally taught students the principle-based ethics approach…
Caring for patients is not only a clinical endeavor, it is also an ethical one. Patient care and ethics are woven together as an integral part of every doctor-patient encounter. Medical schools have traditionally taught students the principle-based ethics approach of autonomy, beneficence, non-malfeasance, and justice. These abstract principles are often applied to “big” patient care situations, such as physician-assisted suicide, organ transplantation, and withholding/withdrawing treatment. The life and death …
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