Gaslighting in the Medical Workplace & How to Recognize It
By Melissa Kaplowitch, Ph.D., Rick Rader, MD, Steve Perlman, DDS, Matt Holder, MD
“Nurses eat their young.” It’s been over 30 years since we were introduced to this saying about supervisors and mentors bully young nurses. In a 2017 paper, Gillespie et at defines bullying as “work-related, personal-related, and physical-related negative behaviors such as withholding information, ignoring targets, spreading rumors, and intimidating others'' (p. 11). Recent estimates put bullying, and its close cousin, 'gaslighting,' at about 30% of the nursing workforce…
Yes, Virginia we were wrong, wrong, wrong - but let’s make it right.
By Rick Rader, MD, Editor-in-Chief
I’ve been writing editorials regularly for the past twenty-five years and I never really thought about the history of editorials. Turns out that Horace Greeley invented the idea of segregating news reports from opinion when he founded the New York Tribune in 1841. He called it the “Editorial Page” and it gave newspapers the ability to endorse and support their views and opinions relating to ongoing politics and the machinery behind them…
A Win-Win-Win Solution to Help People with Disabilities Thrive
By Matthew A. Weed, PhD
The health of millions of elderly, disabled and chronically ill people is threatened by the disconnect between how we teach and do health care in the hospital or doctor’s office and how patients manage chronic illness and disability in the real world.
In the Spotlight: Positive Exposure’s First Rare Disease Day Film Screening
By: James Barnett & Samantha DiSalvo
Einstein AADMD and Positive Exposure celebrated their first annual Rare Disease Day film screening Feb. 28 at the Positive Exposure gallery in NYC. The day was first celebrated in 2008 on a day that only comes once every four years: Feb. 29. Since then, it’s been observed on the last day of February.