Laura Spiegel

1 month ago | kevinmd.com | Kenneth R. Ginsburg |Laura Spiegel |Sara Pastoor |Christopher Habig

An excerpt from Lighthouse Parenting: Raising Your Child With Loving Guidance for a Lifelong Bond published by American Academy of Pediatrics. Your well-being allows you to be emotionally available for your child. Full stop. Children demonstrate they care about us from the very early years. How did your preschooler demonstrate their empathy to you? Did they stroke your hair to comfort you? Did they offer you kisses and hugs?

Jul 18, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Beth Boynton |Peter Ubel |Lashawnda Thornton |Laura Spiegel

I’ve been using experiential activities from improvisation as a modality for teaching communication-related skills for about two decades. Because they are based on a “YES AND” philosophy, which requires everyone’s participation, they are inherently inclusive and social. One such activity is called “I am _____________.” It can be used in any meeting, class, or workshop and only takes about ten minutes.

Feb 6, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Francisco Torres |Christian Youssef |Laura Spiegel |Holly MacKenna

I was an intern who had recently graduated from medical school with little hands-on experience when the patient signaled me to his bedside. Initially, I did a double-take, wondering if the man would be asking for me. I glanced anxiously at the morning rounds as they hurried to the next patient. I’d just watched my attending physician present this patient’s case, speaking about him as though he weren’t there.

Jan 23, 2024 | cfp.ca | Michaela Kelly |Laura Spiegel |Peter Baylis |Clark Fruhstorfer

Medical assistance in dying (MAID) involves a physician or nurse practitioner administering or prescribing a substance that results in the death of an autonomous individual who is capable of making medical decisions and has requested assistance in dying.1 In Canada MAID was legalized with the passage of Bill C-14 on June 17, 2016, in response to the landmark case Carter v Canada.2,3 In that case, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that criminal laws that prohibited access to MAID violated the...

Dec 19, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Alan Lindemann |Nathaniel Fleming |Ken Terry |Laura Spiegel

As time passes, we have more new names for what we used to call quality assurance, but it appears to me to now be a public relations issue and have very little to do with quality. Years ago, I returned home about 10:00 p.m. on Sunday night. I had spent the weekend at my lake cabin for some sorely needed time off. As I usually do when I arrive home after a trip, I called the hospitals to be sure none of my patients had shown up there while I was gone.