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Good Work Needs a Cup That’s At Least Half Full

January 12, 2020 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

A counter-narrative I kept hearing before the New Year was that everything’s “so much better” than I think it is. I’m fairly certain that’s not true, but my cup is still " half full" (and probably a little more than that) as I start another … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Daily Preparation Tagged With: Andrew McAfee, drive, hope, Matt Ridley, motivation, optimism

Finding the Will to Protect Our Humanity

December 16, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

I want to share with you a short, jarring essay I read in the New York Times this week, but first a little background.  For some time now, I’ve been worrying about how tech companies (and the technologies they employ) harm us when … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Daily Preparation Tagged With: agency, Aldous Huxley, autonomy, distraction, free will, George Orwell, human tech, humane technology, instincts, on-line addiction, technology, Tristan Harris

The Good Work of Getting What We Need As Patients

December 2, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Since recent posts here and here about work in healthcare—discussing burnout among health professionals, concerns about misuse of patient data, and questions about who is policing our rapidly changing health system—I’ve continued to follow … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Building Your Values into Your Work, Continuous Learning Tagged With: baseline health measures, big data, control of your data, data, ethics, health and longevity, health care industry, healthcare, misuse of patient data, pre-symptomatic diagnoses, work, work of being a patient

An Unhappy Healthcare System

November 19, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

It came as no surprise. After writing about the growing challenges and responsibilities facing medical professionals and patients last week, I happened upon two posts about the burnout rates for the professionals who are charged with promoting … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Continuous Learning Tagged With: Ascension Health System, big data, Google, health care industry, medical professional burnout, nurse burnout, patient due dilligence, patient privacy rights, Project Nightingale, provider profit motives, PTSD in medical profession, unnecessary medical treatments

The Roles of Doctor and Patient Are Changing

November 11, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

On a train to New York City, I found myself sitting next to a doctor from Johns Hopkins. Mid-career. Confident. As it turned out, he was also from a family of doctors. In his career, he said he’d alternated between research and seeing patients and I … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Proud of Your Work, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: AI and augmented realiity in medicine, doctors, electronic medical records, ethical obligations, Hippocratic Oath, medical data collection, medical professionals, medical work ethic, patient care, patient responsibilities, proposed changes to Hippocratic Oath

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