What is management consulting? Why can consulting be interesting for medical doctors? And especially: what’s in for the doctors? Read all about it in this post!
Only When We Learn How To Die Then We Learn How To Live
The headline of this post comes from a book called Tuesday with Morrie. Maybe some of you read it. The quote has been used by a Singapore-based physician named Dr. Richard Teo, who not only millions as a physician but also mingled with the rich and famous.
Interview with California State Assemblyman Jim Cunneen
With the recent United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, healthcare reform has become a prominent subject of both discussion and derision in the media and the political world. The topic of healthcare reform has engendered passionate debates and divisiveness across America. The Affordable Care Act,...
We See What’s Possible
Franz and I recently had a short phone call and then Franz said something that struck me: “We see what’s possible”. As we are doing a lot of times we were discussing what the “digital physician” is and consequently what the “digital patient” is. For both parties, the internet still remains rather unknown terrain. Go...
An Intimate Interview With Jeff Tangney, Founder ePocrates & Doximity
We’ve sat down with one of the most seasoned and respected entrepreneurs and thinkers in healthcare these days. Jeff Tangney, who not only co-founded ePocrates and brought it to the NASDAQ, but who has recently also founded Doximity, a startup that hopefully will eventually replace the physician’s fax machine. Enjoy! MC: When you started your...
MedCrunch to cover Health 2.0 Spring Fling at Boston
MedCrunch has been an official media partner of the Health 2.0 Europe conference for some time now. But now, starting next monday MedCrunch will also be covering the Health 2.0 Spring Fling at Boston. This conference will be held at the Boston Marriott – Copley Place on May 14-15, so if you like to stay on...
MedCrunch ‘Combined’ Interview with Jacob Scott and Sandeep Kishore at TEDMED 2012
At TEDMED we also had a a very interesting conversation with Jacob Scott (watch Jacob’s TEDMED talk) whose impressive background was strong enough to throw us out of concentration a couple of times. But behind all this great history there is a very simple and cool guy who we befriended along the conference social gatherings and with...
MedCrunch Interview with Marc Triola and John Qualter at TEDMED 2012
During TEDMED we had the opportunity to meet, talk with and interview many interesting people and learn about what advances they are bringing to healthcare’s future. Among the most interesting ones was our interview with TEDMED speakers Marc Triola, M.D. and John Qualter creators of the Biodigital Human, a very detailed and web-based 3D model of the...
TEDMED 2012 Recap – Part 2
This is part 2 of our previous post. Take a look at part 1 here. Session 6: “You Get What You Select For” Frances Arnold a professor of chemical engineering, bioengineering and biochemistry at CalTech amazed us by explaining how she is evolving proteins by making them “have sex” (these TEDMED talks really spice things...
TEDMED 2012 Recap – Part 1
Like children who were suddenly forced to go home after spending three and a half days in Disney World, the delegates slowly made their ways towards the exit of the J.F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts as one of the greatest conferences for healthcare innovation concluded. Following the format of the original TED Talks,...
Live from TEDMED 2012
After two sessions of an incredibly large flow of new ideas, meeting people from around the world and from every corner of healthcare’s scope and finally taking a night tour of Washington’s most amazing monuments, I don’t think my mind and body can take it anymore… and there are 9 more sessions!!! Wow! TEDMED is...
Don’t Be Obedient
If you are a physician, then don’t be obedient and question everything. It sounds trivial, yet it’s incredibly hard to accomplish in medicine. From our first days in med school to our residency at hospitals, we are taught, that science and the head of department is always right. Whereas the former should be true for...
