BACK of the BOOK
Heard in the Blogosphere
Dan Shapiro
@ASH_hematology
Why do birds / suddenly appear / every time / you are
near? Confirmation bias.
Arif Kamal
@arifkamalmd
“MACRA”nyms (e.g. MIPS, PQRS, VBP) expanding the
vocabulary of all health professionals – the struggle is real.
A Plea From a Journal Editor:
“Stop Submitting Papers”
“I woke up to three requests for review and two papers to handle
as a subject editor. It is unusual, but it happens. I declined to do
all the reviews. This is not sustainable. … [We are] burdening the
peer-review process for very little return (because these comments,
important as they may be, do not make the paper more correct or
more robust). Here is what we should do: stop submitting papers to
journals. Wait, what? No, I mean it. We should write our draft, go
over it with our coauthors, and then put it on a preprint server. And
wait. Some reasonable amount of time. A year, maybe. After a year,
when we had the opportunity to share this paper with colleagues,
then we can submit it.”
Jean Koff, MD
−Timothée Poisot, PhD, discussing the unsustainability of
an overburdened peer-review process, in The Scientist
@JeanKoffMD
Obligatory pic in front of the giant colon #winship5k
The Cure for Cancer Is Data –
Mountains of Data
“We need 100 Mount Sinais to achieve the scale required to
recognize the patterns in patient data that guide you to diagnoses
and treatments. That’s just not going to happen within the medical
centers. They’re too isolated from each other, too competitive, and
they’re not woven together into a coherent framework that enables
the kind of advancements we’re seeing in nearly all other industries. …
Can we do better for human well-being if information is more broadly
accessible, where you’re leveraging the mindshare of the entire planet
to evolve the models of disease? Absolutely.”
−Eric Schadt, a computational biologist and director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics,
on the need for big – and accessible – data in an interview in Wired
ASH
@ASH_Hematology
Meet the #ASH16
ASH News Daily
Editorial Team!
@AaronGerds,
@doctorpemm,
@leslieskeith,
@jamesblachly,
Frank Cornell &
Rahki Naik
Dear Fellow Doctors:
Please Play Nice
In STAT News, doctors talk about burnout’s impact on the relationships among
doctors, and how the lack of civility
among colleagues can affect patient care.
“To the cynical among us, perhaps it’s
not surprising some doctors act like jerks;
some are egotistical, lack social skills, or
just don’t care. But I give my colleagues
the benefit of the doubt and suspect that
burnout – which is worse than ever – is
driving many doctors’ rudeness. After all,
impatience and short tempers are actually normal human responses to frustration, exhaustion, and constant stress.”
−Allison Bond, MD, a resident physician in
internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital
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“Sometimes it takes different people’s
perspectives to make sense of how things are
unfolding. Discussions between teams are
ways to make sense of what’s going on and
what to be concerned about. … Every interaction matters, and everybody’s interactions
are shaping the culture all the time. It’s hard
work, but being civil and building a context of
respect and trust is critical.”
“[In our study], when rude statements were
peppered into interactions during a medical
exercise, even seemingly benign, sarcastic
comments had rather severe implications on
doctors’ and nurses’ ability to perform their
regular tasks and to engage in basic team
processes. … The danger is that they don’t
realize they are making more mistakes.”
−Prof. Peter Bamberger, professor of business at
Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University
−Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, PhD, professor of business
and medicine at Johns Hopkins University
December 2016