Bedside Manner's New Digs

Do you remember the first time you left home to live on your own? Perhaps to go to college? Or for your first job? I’m feeling a little like that now. After more than two years of living comfortably on CarePages and Bedside Manner, two terrific online communities, my blog is striking out on its own. I’ll be paying my own rent, keeping my own hours, and trying to keep the fridge filled with interesting ideas (OK, that analogy got a little thin at the end).

I’ll still be writing about compassionate healthcare – innovative programs that promote it, new studies that shed light on it, where it’s done well and where it’s not. I will promote best practices in compassionate care by sharing real life stories. My target audience is those in a position to change our system, to inject it with the humanism patients so desperately want. That includes all types of healthcare administrators, clinicians and policy makers, to name a few. Of course, we welcome all readers, especially clinicians, patients and others interested in compassionate healthcare.