Syndicom

Not one surgery is the same, right? Every human body is unique and with thousands of cases inside of SpineConnect.com, it is safe to say that this may be true. With the many cases out there, how does one know a best practice? Who is an expert and who is not? At Syndicom, we decided [...]

“Most research is collaborative…” At least that’s Sir Paul Nurse’s view as presented on this Vanderbilt University video series. And who could disagree? Sharing ideas, information and resources enables intellectual capital growth, which means efficiency. But is the concept of collaboration too distant for most researchers? In other words, is it Practical, Professional and Programmatic?

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As a list maker myself, I applauded the release of the New England Journal’s article this week, and as a patient who has had to endure the redirection of surgeons to my case, I was thankful for it. As we discussed earlier this week though, what is the true effect of this checklist? Some will [...]

“A culture of separation will collapse of its own incoherence. We need communities of memory that experience time as a continuous flow, a shared rhythm.” -Robert Bellah, Habits of the Heart
 
Time is precious. And because doctors provide services to one person after another, it can be a grind. You can lose your larger sense of purpose [...]

Consider the following…(From Manhattan Research and Greystone.net)

99% of physicians are online for personal or professional purposes, and 83% consider the Internet essential to their practice.
Physicians are turning to the web and their Blackberrys for clinical information, increasingly using them to replace physical sources such as journals, textbooks, drug references and conferences.
Physicians who participate in social [...]

When we consider how work gets done in the medical realm, we very often focus solely on ‘the physician’, ‘the nurse’, or ‘the surgeon’ and consider them as individual actors. But is this a fair representation of the work they do and the people they are? Should they act as solo professionals or are those [...]