Magic lever – changing habits
One of the magic levers impacting best health is automatically using widely accepted, well tested practices (evidence-based practice). For example hand washing. Seems like a no brainer – washing hands...
View ArticleStart with the end in mind
How do we start a journey? We decide we’re going to work, home, to Boston, the Cape, a destination. Then we plan the route and adjust it as impediments arise (traffic, construction, weather). Same for...
View ArticleFocusing on the Basics
I just want to focus on the basics! In life I reach for the sky. I’m wired that way. I’m frustrated by less. In my health journey or anyone’s health journey where I’m along for the ride I want the...
View ArticleLimits
Limits. Spending time this weekend with friends of 30-40-50 years – lots of young kids my grandsons’ ages in the mix. Watching the constant shifting dance of setting limits, testing limits. Children...
View ArticlePersonal risk management – When s***t happens
When I ask my doctors what worries them the most about my future health, both my neurologist and primary care doc say, they worry that I’ll fall. Everybody faces risks – too little or too much...
View ArticleData can motivate change. Changing data requires a change in life and work flow.
This fifth in a series of posts about health data thinks about the value we get from that data. In my last post I said, The best data has value because it reflects or motivates action. Action to...
View ArticleHabits – Health’s ingredients
Habits are the ingredients of health. My chiropractor tells me that my exercise habits should be sustainable. I need to keep them up no matter my life pace. Now I alternate days of 45 minutes of...
View ArticleWhat’s the Problem with the Experience of People at the Center of Care?
Wearing my many hats: e-patient, caregiver, nurse, informaticist, and leader, I am blessed with mostly positive experiences on my health journey. At worst, my experiences are seriously annoying. This...
View ArticleLife Happens or Expecting the Unexpected
The New York Times Magazine has an article this week about flexibility at work. Since I am a person with a chronic illness and disability and have been a boss to many teams, it seems like a no brainer...
View ArticleChanging habits – for people and payers
I love my health team. They help me stay tuned up with my chronic challenges and they get me through unexpected crises. Still, I see them way too often. 3-5 times a month and I’ve never been an...
View ArticleEngaged with Sax
Shopping for a new neurologist I had three screening questions: What’s your response time to emails? Do you use OpenNotes? How would you work with my acupuncturist? The first doc said, ‘I don’t use...
View ArticleScreen-Free Sabbath
Week 3 of my wife and my Screen-Free Sabbath. Feels pretty good. After the first week it feels like a relief. I’m reading more books – paper and not Kindle. Turned off my e-mail and social media...
View ArticleI’m So Discouraged
Several times this week I heard a variation on: I’m so discouraged, I thought I was doing better. I just keep sliding back. I really suck at this. The topics: meditating every day, losing weight,...
View ArticlePersonal Health Goals
As a person with MS, I’ve written that my personal health goals are to progress as slowly as possible and do nothing that will mess with my pathological optimism. People I talk with about personal...
View ArticleAdjusting Your Personal Health Plan? Right…
My mother bought me a beautiful handmade brocade vest when I lost 45 pounds. It’s my favorite. I can’t button it now. Not even close. I haven’t worn it in several years. My personal health goal: Lose...
View ArticleHealth Goals to Clinical Decisions (CDS)
It’s hard to reach personal health goals or solve medical problems without a plan. Plans require decisions. Never-ending decisions (choices) in the health journey. Clinicians, researchers, and...
View ArticleHabits – Health’s ingredients
Habits are the ingredients of health. My chiropractor tells me that my exercise habits should be sustainable. I need to keep them up no matter my life pace. Now I alternate days of 45 minutes of...
View ArticleWhat’s the Problem with the Experience of People at the Center of Care?
Wearing my many hats: e-patient, caregiver, nurse, informaticist, and leader, I am blessed with mostly positive experiences on my health journey. At worst, my experiences are seriously annoying. This...
View ArticleLife Happens or Expecting the Unexpected
The New York Times Magazine has an article this week about flexibility at work. Since I am a person with a chronic illness and disability and have been a boss to many teams, it seems like a no brainer...
View ArticleChanging habits – for people and payers
I love my health team. They help me stay tuned up with my chronic challenges and they get me through unexpected crises. Still, I see them way too often. 3-5 times a month and I’ve never been an...
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