National Doctors’ Day is a chance to express appreciation for doctors’ extraordinary roles in serving and caring for their patients, families and communities. This Doctors’ Day is particularly special for me as it’s my last before retiring as ThedaCare President and CEO, moving away from full-time healthcare leadership.
In an effort to engage families early on and to meet the various needs of our communities of learners
Each of us wants to feel appreciated at work, like what we do matters. The challenge for business leaders is finding ways to help demonstrate that. Last July, we asked some of our ThedaCare team members to brainstorm ways to make appreciation an active part of our culture.
The generosity from community members is helping ThedaCare Medical Center-Berlin cancer patients feel more comfortable while battling the disease.
Patients with chronic or acute muscle pain may find greater relief through a technique called dry needling. “It’s worked well for people who have tried a lot of other things and haven’t had the best response, said Annie Schmidt, DPT at ThedaCare Medical Center-New London.
Both Jack and I have volunteered at the hospital since shortly after we retired here 20 years ago. I had always been short of breath. A pulmonologist recommended pulmonary rehab. I wasn’t enthused because as a sedentary person, I was much happier sitting down and not moving, but my lungs needed to move.
Recently, one of my colleagues pointed out to me there is some confusion about what the labels of DO and MD after a doctor’s name really means. I had not thought about the distinction since in every day medical practice I do not see a difference.
Kayla Thorpe, office manager at Lawton Family Dentistry, looks forward to the annual ThedaCare Foundation-New London Sturgeon Shuffle. “It’s a great walk to kick off spring,” she said. “I love the fact that it is dog friendly and the route that we take in Hatten (Park) is always very nice.”
In an age when electronic communication often helps simplify and speed access to information, last spring ThedaCare launched patient eVisits with primary care providers. EVisits do not require patients to go into a clinic to be seen in person by a care provider; rather, patients log on to their MyThedaCare private web account, select what they want to be “seen” for, and answer several questions specific to their ailment.
When ThedaCare speech therapist Meghan Gallagher was looking for an effective way to lose some extra weight, she knew ThedaCare’s intensive Lifestyle Intervention Program fit the bill.
National poison prevention week is March 19-25, 2017. Every year about 2.4 million people swallow or have contact with a poisonous substance. One-half of these cases involve children under 6 years of age.
Expectant parents who have questions about caring for a newborn can alleviate their concerns by attending the free ThedaCare community presentation, “Does This Baby Come with a Handbook?”, led by Patricia Callahan, MD, Pediatrician
I love playing football. Whatever it takes to stay on the field, I’m all for it. So when I felt something “pop” in my foot, I gutted it out and finished the game.
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