The topic today is communication in healthcare. Patient to provider, provider to patient, provider to provider, and within a provider office.

My guest in the studio today is Tim Healy, www.healysolutions.com.

My phone guest is Dr. Rohan Perrera, a local cardiologist.

You can reach me via email at habanero@wusb.fm, or call my office 631.244.5661. I welcome your comments and suggestions for future programming.

Here are links to some of the articles featured today:

http://www.sfhp.org/files/PDF/providers/Best_Practices/Have_you_addresse... (old study/suggestions for improving approach)

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/02/opinion/verghese-doctors-touch/index.html (TED talk from a doctor)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/04/15/why-your-doctor-has-no-... (importance of communication)

http://whendoctorsdontlisten.blogspot.com/ (end of life discussions from ER doc when her Mom was dying)

http://healthecommunications.wordpress.com/tag/cost-of-poor-physician-pa... (from Dr. perspective)

http://patients.about.com/od/therightdoctorforyou/a/docpatientcomm.htm (rules for patients, rules for doctors)

http://physiciansmoneydigest.com/your-money/Top-10-Peeves-Doctors-Have-A...

http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-02-02/finance/31029005_1_patients-b...