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…

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…

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.