UNACCEPTABLE: Health Workers as Pawns of Warfare
Last week, NPR ran a story that made me cringe, describing a major humanitarian group’s decision to stop treating patients from detention centers in Misrata, Libya. According to the report, “torture was so rampant that some detainees were brought for care only to make them fit for further interrogation.”
Finally, a Major Step Forward in Protecting Health Workers and Facilities
Despite firm standards rooted in the Geneva Conventions to protect health facilities, health workers, and the patients served during armed conflict, and to enable health professionals to act consistently with their ethical obligations, assaults on and interference with health functions are all too common in war.
A "Best Buy" for Saving Lives
This blog entry was originally published at ONE Blog.
Berthé Aissata Touré is a health worker in Mali, where women have an average of six children. In this country’s vast rural areas, childbirth...
mHealth Pilots Show Promise, on the Verge of Something Bigger
A mHealth report from Advanced Development for Africa offers recommendations for taking mHealth programs to scale based on nine case studies.
Distracted Doctoring: A Conversation with Dr. Papadakos
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog response to a New York Times article on doctors distracted from their jobs by mobile technology.
Educating Health Care Workers in the Balance of Technology and Humanism
As technology and the access to medical information have exploded worldwide, we may be ill-prepared to balance the technologic aspects of care with those of the art of medicine.
Accommodating—and Creatively Embracing—Technology
Last week, the New York Times published “As Doctors Use More Devices, Potential for Distraction Grows,” which offers a critical look at the place of mobile technology and computers in the hospital.
16 Years and 16 Days of Activism against Violence
Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released findings from the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey. The numbers are sobering
