Tag: vascular patients
Reducing unwanted care through better communication
Current communication practices often fail to help patients and their families understand if surgery is right for them, argued Margaret “Gretchen” Schwarze, MD, during...
Adam Smith, Hippocrates, Pogo and the great American health care mess:...
Two Florida Hospital systems — as well as the Cleveland Clinic, Mt Sinai and Johns Hopkins — have been in a contract war with...
SVS updates patient reading materials to ‘improve accessibility’
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) has revamped the patient flyers on YourVascularHealth.org—the Society’s patient-facing online patient resource—in an effort to lower the reading level...
Highway to Health: SVS to stage virtual how-to session
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) will hold a virtual Highway to Health informational session exclusively for members on Wednesday, April 30, at 7...
Standing on the banks of the Rubicon
“Where have all the doctors gone?” is the headline on the cover article of the January/February 2025 edition of the AARP Bulletin. Perhaps it...
Assessing the needs of young vascular patients
In the past 18 months, a joint taskforce studying the needs of pediatric vascular patients has made great strides, conducting a needs assessment, identifying...