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Inside Baylor Scott & White
Sep 19, 2017
This is one of six articles in the Business of Health Care series. When it comes to technology that makes our lives better — from computers to cell phones — the trend has been smaller, faster, better. When it comes to next...
Sep 12, 2017
This is one of six articles in the Business of Health Care series. Between doctors, nurses, technicians of various stripes and other support staff, as a patient, receiving care in a hospital can be confusing, even daunting at times — and...
Sep 7, 2017
While advances and setbacks in cancer research and weight loss seem to grab most of the health headlines, there is a massive healthcare problem in America that doesn’t get nearly the same publicity — behavioral health disorders.Nationally, about one in...
Aug 29, 2017
This is one of six articles in the Business of Health Care series. When it comes to hot button issues in the ongoing debate over what to do about health care, there is perhaps no button hotter than Medicaid. Unfortunately, there seem...
Aug 23, 2017
This is one of six articles in the Business of Health Care series. For most people in the developed world, their long-term health outcome is not dependent on the amount of medical care readily available to them. Instead, environmental and lifestyle...
Aug 10, 2017
In 2014 Don Mashewske’s wife, Lona Re, had been hospitalized 11 times because of diabetes. Overcome with worry, Don’s weight dropped from 208 to 151 pounds. Both he and Lona Re needed help.Lona Re’s health care team at Baylor Scott...
Jul 11, 2017
A new era for Texas patients has arrived. The Lone Star State became the last to allow patients and their doctors to use smartphones and devices to replace traditional face-to-face office visits without having an existing relationship with the doctor....
Jun 20, 2017
Supporting healthy aging through fitness activities, preventive care and disease management is the mission of the Scott & White Wellness Center – Brenham. Established in 2015, the Center provides a suite of wellness services for older adults in Washington County,...
Nov 19, 2016
The family physician’s office has become the front line of defense against mental illness. The ideal population-to-psychiatrist ratio is 4000-1. In Texas, the ratio is triple that size.Four out of five people with a behavioral health diagnosis visit a primary...
Aug 8, 2016
South by Southwest® (SXSW®) is a very special conference, celebrating the convergence of the interactive, film and music industries. During a few weeks in March, it brings people from all over the world together in Austin, Texas.During SXSW, the entire...
May 23, 2016
If someone had asked me a year ago what my thoughts on the representation of women among lead authors of research studies published in high-impact medical journals were, I probably wouldn’t have had any thought at all. If pressed, I...
Apr 18, 2016
Hollywood. It’s famous the world over for movies, celebrities, glitz, glamour and – as of February 2016 – one of the most highly publicized cyberattacks and IT security breaches in health care history.A hospital in the area bearing the Hollywood...
Apr 11, 2016
Grace Lassiter, a third-year medical student at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, removes her hearing aids before listening to a patient’s heartbeat through a stethoscope.“My older patients often would see them and mention they were thinking of...
Mar 15, 2016
When Bryan Tyo suffered a heart attack in January, he was too sick to receive a heart transplant. A surgical team at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas instead removed his damaged heart and implanted a total artificial heart, a...
Mar 14, 2016
Americans are diligent about preventive care for their pets and vehicles. Their own bodies? Not so much.According to a Cigna preventive care survey, nine out of 10 pet owners know when their dog or cat is due for their immunizations. About 80...
Jan 11, 2016
When it comes to getting from point A to point B locally without having to drive, all it takes is a few taps on a smartphone ridesharing app and a few minutes later, a driver is picking you up. Soon,...
Oct 16, 2015
We all know dogs are man’s best friend but for some, dogs are this and so much more. Service dogs are highly trained assistance animals with the ideal temperament needed to enhance the independence of people with a broad range...
Oct 15, 2015
Peyton loves to draw and watch movies. In fact, the 12-year-old proudly knows more than 200 quotations from different movies. Peyton has autism, which makes social interaction and changes in routine more difficult. For most of his life, Peyton’s family...
Oct 8, 2015
He was the perfect villain. Martin Shkreli, the smug 32-year-old Turing Pharmaceuticals chief executive officer, raised the price on a drug called Daraprim from $13.50 a pill to $750 overnight.The Daily Beast called Shkreli the most-hated man in the U.S.,...
Sep 30, 2015
What happens when violence and war steals your sense of security in your homeland? When a place you once recognized as a safe haven now perpetuates unbearable fear, threatening your family and your own life?You run.And as you take on the great risk to escape, you...
