new stuff I'm learning about living, dying, what matters most - Tue, Oct 23 2018

If the health care system seems confusing to you, you are not alone. In a large recent survey of the most seriously ill people in America, we learned that they, too, find it difficult to navigate. But they have developed a few strategies for…

Jeff Cohn More good info about living with serious illness and how it intrudes on the lives of patients and families

For most Americans, it's not easy to schedule an appointment to see a primary-care physician or speak to one by phone. When patients can get in for a visit with a doctor, they're lucky to get 15 minutes of their time. That's not the case at a…

Jeff Cohn Numerous disruptive models of primary care are emerging that combine population health principles with the use of non-physician roles like coach and community health worker- with impressive early results

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth, the most drastic move yet in a governmentwide effort to roll back recognition and…

Jeff Cohn This would be unbelievable but for the track record of those in power- this is an area for healthcare professionals, not politicians

In the winter of 1847-48, a typhus epidemic raged through Upper Silesia. The Prussian king dispatched a young Dr. Rudolf Virchow to investigate the outbreak. Dr. Virchow would later achieve scientific sainthood for disposing of Hippocrates' idea…

Jeff Cohn The previous article is one good reason for doctors making this suggestion to their patients

MEMPHIS — If you are a Verizon customer on the East Coast, odds are good that your cellphone or tablet arrived by way of a beige, windowless warehouse near Tennessee's border with Mississippi. Inside, hundreds of workers, many of them women…

Jeff Cohn When women who have physically demanding jobs have pregnancy complications that necessitate transient reductions in this physical burden not all employers make that possible, sometimes with tragic consequences

A few years ago, I began seeing a surge in anxious clients to my private practice as a grief therapist. They were reporting panic attacks and debilitating anxiety following the death of a loved one. Some of them had experienced anxiety before the…

Jeff Cohn Helping people recognize that anxiety is sometimes a normal part of grieving can help relieve some of that anxiety

Q: How can I cope with bad medical news? A: When your physician tells you or a family member that you have a chronic or terminal disease, it can hit you like a whirlwind. As a cognitive-behavioral therapist and licensed psychologist, I know that…

Jeff Cohn Kind of vanilla but some good tips are in this article

Terry Gross, 67, is the host and executive producer of NPR's “Fresh Air,” which she began hosting locally in Philadelphia in 1975. She has won numerous awards, including a Peabody for “Fresh Air” and the Corporation for…

Jeff Cohn Terry Gross is a very talented interviewer- here she talks about some of her approaches to asking hard questions

I married well. Really well. Unexpectedly well, based on my prior relationship history. One of the reasons our relationship works so well is that I learned a valuable lesson from my parents: Love is a verb, not a noun. My parents never verbalized…

Jeff Cohn Love can be reflected by what we do >>> what we say