1. Plot Twist!

Blog readers may have noticed I haven’t been posting regularly in 2022. There’s a very good reason for that. I’ve been writing stuff – but they’re not here on the blog, because of the personal and sensitive nature of the topic. One year later I’m ready to put it out there, so here goes. In […]

Communication and its Importance in Rehabilitation, Part 2

In the last blog post, we tackled communication’s importance in a patient’s active participation in rehabilitation and adjusting to their “new normal” after a life-changing event. The rehabilitation team’s patient-centered care involves communicating information in a timely manner, promoting a supportive environment and building good relationships with the patient and family and delivering both bad […]

Communication and its Importance in Rehabilitation, Part 1

A recent blog post tackled the importance of communication in healthcare, and how good communication can lead to better patient outcomes, safety and population health. I also wrote about how I enjoyed a course on healthcare communication in my last semester of school. One of the required assessments for the course was a final research […]

Pandemic Messaging: Words Matter

I read an article a few days ago about how using certain words can get messages about the pandemic more effectively than others. You can read the article from Axios here. It shows striking contrasts between “words used” and “words we should have used”. The “actors” in this study are the people giving the messages, […]