restorARTively

Someone recently compared me to the game, "Whack a Mole". Affectionately, he described me as a person who kept sprouting up in a variety of arenas, sharing a different skill he didn't know I had or had interest in. Roaring in laughter, I agreed it seemed a spot-on description and reason why I might get so many headaches. In sharing a variety of experiences, opinions, successes and failures, I have been beaten around a little bit for them. Including a recent unexpected series of harassing phone calls and emails from a surgeon who seemed to misunderstand (and appeared quite threatened by) my goals for transparency and disclosure in health care. Whether it has been a tragic rift with family & friends because of poor or lacking communication or a medically trained clinician I have never met, my head still hurts from the blows. I never seem to know where they will come from, so like other grievers I go undercover to protect myself. My assessor explained what he was seeing....

Malpractice Confidentiality Clauses Could Put Others At Risk - Milwaukee News Story - WISN Milwaukee I posted this article on my Facebook page and it produced numerous comments. More than a comment box is necessary to explain my stance on transparency in health care. The underlying principles that guide work in restorative justice/practices under which I work towards education and communication in health care include accountability, respect, honesty, and community (all stakeholders included). These principles acknowledge the human condition/need to be a positive contributor within a community of caring. A group of individuals and institutions engaged in the delivery of or receipt of care to the sick and dying could be defined as a "community of caring." Anything that restricts the employ of accountability, respect, honesty, and community in health care impedes the restoration of health and healing (even in circumstances where dying occurs because there is healing to st...