Special Editions Archive

To prevent the next patient from getting hooked on opioids, let’s first consider what helped cause the national epidemic to spiral out of control. It wasn’t surgeons passing...

Who Has Access to Your Medications? Reduce diversion risks with these drug security and disposal solutions.

Why does the opioid epidemic hit home for you? Ilan Kirsh, my best friend from childhood, died on the stoop of my apartment in...

One of our facility's surgeons is well known for sending patients home after surgery with 3 opioid pills. That's it. His patients are initially surprised and wonder if that will be...

You could make a legitimate argument that the CDC’s labeling of pain as “the fifth vital sign” in 2001 did more harm than good and directly contributed to the current opioid...

Make Your Facility More Inclusive; Tips to help you navigate the landscape of sexual orientation and gender identification.

Fighting the Incivility War; Teaching and requiring respectful behavior improve staff morale, patient safety and the bottom line.

Hope for the Future; Diversity challenges are real, but we can overcome them.

Next Steps; If you're committed to becoming more diverse and inclusive, here are a few places to get help.

9 Tips for Negotiating Language Barriers; For moral, legal and financial reasons, we must do better. Here's advice on how.