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Give Me That Old Time…Caring
Treadway Calls on Physicians to Remember the Heart |
| By Rich McManus |
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| Dr. Katharine Treadway |
There are probably not many speakers in the Clinical
Center’s Grand Rounds/Great Teachers lecture series who, after their hour-long talks, discover that many in the audience would like to adopt them as their personal physician.
But such might have been the case recently when Dr. Katharine Treadway, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School—and a primary care physician—
discussed “Heart Matters: Old Ideas in New Times for the Patient-Doctor Relationship.”
Introduced as “a real doctor, which is perhaps the most you could say about anyone in our profession,” Treadway spoke about the erosion of empathy in medical
care, the deficiencies in medical training that allow such erosion to go unchecked and some possible interventions that can help preserve the idealism that prompts young people to seek a healing profession.
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‘Bringing Science to Life’
Symposium Closes NINR 25th Anniversary |
| By Ray Bingham |
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| Dr. Rita Colwell speaks at NINR anniversary event. |
The National Institute
of Nursing Research recently
brought its 25th anniversary commemoration
to a close with a nursing science symposium. While speakers looked back over a quarter century of research highlights, the focus of the symposium,
“Bringing Science to Life: A Healthier Tomorrow,” was to build on these accomplishments
for the future. As NINR director Dr. Patricia Grady said, “The story of nursing and nursing science is the story of bringing science to life and of creating a healthier today and healthier tomorrows.”
Dr. Rita Colwell, distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, opened with an overview of an international nursing research project that addressed the spread of cholera in rural villages of Bangladesh. A research team found an inexpensive, easy-to-use and readily available method to prepare drinking water from local ponds and rivers—filter it through old sari cloth.
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