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June/July
2006
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Advisors
Ralph D. Feigin,
M.D.
Physician-in-Chief
Texas Children's Hospital
Professor and Chairman
Department of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Joseph A. Garcia-Prats,
M.D.
Neonatologist
Texas Children's Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Medical Ethics Baylor
College of Medicine
Arnold G. Kagan,
M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Editor
Cindy Shanley
Marketing and
Public Relations
Texas Children’s Hospital
832-824-2180
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For members of the Texas Children's Hospital medical staff
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From
the medical staff president
Patient safety and family involvement
in hospital care are important themes
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Dr. Joseph A. Garcia-Prats
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By Joseph A. Garcia-Prats, M.D.
If you haven’t read the May 1 issue of Time magazine, I
urge you to do so. I was hooked by the cover and found reading
the lead story both interesting and bothersome.
The cover article addressed safety issues and
administrative/insurance — issues that patients and physicians
now must deal with. Fortunately, Texas Children’s Hospital has
in place a process to review and address any safety issue, and
is proactive in guiding our personnel and our organization to
practice safely in our facility and clinics.
The approach to safety in our medical
practices is changing for the better. Safety programs are now
more prevention oriented, as opposed to punitive like they were
in the past. This new environment is yielding a very positive
response in every aspect of hospital/office practice.
The current system of addressing safety
concerns revolves around a multidisciplinary committee headed by
Chief Safety Officer Dr. Joan Shook. It is an impressive group
of individuals who lend their different perspectives to the
common goal of safety. Hopefully, Dr. Shook and members of her
committee will share with us several of their initiatives for
this year in the upcoming issues of Progress Notes.
I remind all medical practitioners that
safety for our patients in our office and hospital
practices continues to be in the foreground of Texas Children’s
Hospital planning and is a priority for the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, as well.
The work of the Quality Council is therefore
crucial for all of us to focus on methods and to conduct reviews to
improve the safe practice for our patients. I continue to urge
all of you to become involved in the many opportunities to serve
our hospital community and therefore to serve our fellow medical
practitioners and patients.
Please also take the time to read the very
informative article regarding our Family Advisory Board (FAB).
When we are curious to know how we as physicians are doing in
our ability to care for our patients, we need only ask the users
of our services. The FAB is just such a sounding board. It is
also my plan, working with Dr. Kagan as he works hard on
publishing interesting topics in Progress Notes, that the
activities of the FAB will also get their stories across. I am
impressed by this group of parents who are so dedicated to Texas
Children’s Hospital and serve a great purpose by telling us what
is right and not so right, and what we all can do to address the
needs of their children and families as they receive care at
Texas Children’s Hospital and in our offices. |
Joseph A. Garcia-Prats, M.D., is the 2006 president of the medical staff and a neonatologist at Texas Children’s. He also is a professor of pediatrics and a professor of medical ethics at Baylor College of Medicine.
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Online
CME
Free online
activity
A pediatric
educational series
Special Topics in Pediatrics: Diagnosing A
Fever of Unknown Origin and Antimicrobial Usage Update
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Grand Rounds calendar
8:30 a.m., Fridays,
Texas Children's Hospital,
lower-level Auditorium
unless
otherwise listed.
June 9
Travel Medicine
Bonnie M. Word, M.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
June 16
Innies, Outies and Other Bellybutton Lore
Mary L. Brandt, M.D., Professor of Surgery and of Pediatric
Surgery
June 23
The Notorious Drug Rash
Carla M. Davis M.D., B.S., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
June 30
The Pancreas and Pancreatitis: Unlocking Your Belly’s Black Box
Mark A. Gilger, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics
July 7
Occult Bacteria In the Conjugate Pneumococcal Vaccine Era
Mark A. Ward, M.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
July 14
The Epidemic Within: Addressing Physician Stress and Burnout
CME Ethics 1
Eugene Boisaubin, M.D., Professor of Internal Medicine, UT
Health Science Center
July 21
Clinical Pathological Conference
Meenakshi B. Bhattacharjee, M.B.B.S., M.D., Assistant Professor
of Pathology
July 28
Staphylococcal Disease In the Primary Care Setting
Sheldon L. Kaplan, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics; Moise L. Levy,
M.D., Professor of Dermatology; Denise W. Metry, M.D., Assistant
Professor of Dermatology
Aug. 11
Pet Imaging In Pediatrics
Harry T. Chugani, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Neurology, and
of Radiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.
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