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I noticed over the past week that there’s a lot of search traffic on the site related to the topic of fee schedules, coinciding with a lot of personal email traffic on this same topic, and a lot of page views of the Court Testimony Clinical Guide. So I thought I’d direct folks to last year’s Creating a Fee Schedule for Expert Consultation and Testimony post and just make it easy for everyone, since that appears to be what people are looking for. Cheers.

There has already been a lot written, posted and tweeted about today’s historic ruling by the US Supreme Court. Nothing has delighted me so much as this, tweeted by Dr. Jill Biden, wife of the Vice President. How do you not love that man?

It wasn’t my intention that this week’s posts would all end up being reading posts, but so far that’s just how it’s unfolding. I ran across this blog post during a bit of insomnia, however, and couldn’t stop thinking about how perfect it was. 

Need an interesting read? Medscape has an article worth some time: Ethical Issues in the Disruptive Behaviors of Incivility, Bullying and Horizontal/Lateral Violence. It actually comes via Urologic Nursing (which is a first for this site), but I assure you it’s relevant across the board. I do love a good ethics article, especially where bad behavior is concerned. Sadly no CEs attached, but an interesting read nonetheless.

You know I love this RSA Short featuring Brene Brown’s piece on empathy (I use it in a lot of different things I teach), so I was thrilled to see their new piece featuring Brene Brown on blame. I don’t know if it was meant to be, but I think it’s a great {brief} lesson on one aspect of leadership. Enjoy.

The National Center for Victims of Crime has another webinar coming up in the neurobiology of trauma series: Neural Mechanisms of Mindfulness and How They Are Relevant to Trauma will take place April 29th at 3:30pm ET. Click through for details about this session:

Loved this brief piece in HuffPost yesterday, What Are the Five Best Practices for Tweeting from Conferences? A lot of you have had questions about using Twitter at conferences and meetings, so this should give you some pretty straight-forward practice points. Maybe this will up our collective game at some of the events in our future…

There’s a really interesting webinar happening next week from the Missing and Exploited Children’s Program and the AMBER Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program: The Intersection Between Drug and Human Trafficking in Tribal Communities. I encourage you to read through the session description, since it’s one of those topics we don’t see a lot on. Click through for details:

Here’s a truth about FHO readers–you all do love a good STD session. Seriously, aside from the consensual sex injury clinical guide, the STD posts rank highest. So I was happy to see our friend Kim post this session to the IAFN Community site yesterday, and figured I’d pass it along to those of you who didn’t see it there.

I was introduced to Dr. Abraham Verghese through a couple different venues, but interestingly all at about the same time. Last night, nursing a nasty headache, I put on his TEDMED talk from last year that looks at language and medicine. I found it utterly compelling, and if you click through, I’ve embedded it here. I thought it was such a poetic look at the not just the science, but the art of medicine, and I think you might enjoy it, as well.

Now that I’m a 9-5er, my time off is pretty precious. So you’ll excuse me while I engage in a bit of self-care and take a short vacation. I’ll be back on April 1st with new content, including the next installment of Articles of Note.

See you next week!

“Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop…Online, we have a compassion deficit, an empathy crisis…” This one is a must-watch.

SAMHSA is hosting a webinar March 11th at 3:30pm ET to launch their free mobile app, Suicide Safe. It’s intended as a suicide prevention tool for behavioral health and primary care providers, but it certainly has relevance for the work we do, as well, since it provides guidance on suicide assessments and other prevention strategies.

As I frequently mention here, just because something is available online doesn’t mean it’s quality. As professionals we’re obligated to evaluate our sources for scientific information, because in this day and age, there’s an abundance of information out there, not all of which is trustworthy.

It’s been more than 3 years since I posted a 10 Things list about being on the road, so I figured it was time to update it. Since I’m heading to San Diego today, the timing fits. My spouse and I compare notes a lot about life as a travel hound, which got me thinking about my current list of lessons from the road, and what, if anything, has changed (answer: not much).

Over at ReachMD they have a podcast I plan on listening to tonight while I’m hanging out in the Anchorage airport: Can Medical Leadership Be Taught? I read a lot about leadership–I’m fascinated by the topic and I think that there’s much to be learned by others’ experiences, and by studying the myriad ways in which leadership is defined and cultivated. Click through for some good (and mostly brief) reads on leadership:

A quick tip from our friend Kim Nash: the American Academy of Pediatrics has published their updated childhood and adolescent immunization schedule (PDF). For those of you caring for pediatric patients, good for your history gathering and anticipatory guidance.

My wife often teases the girl-child that her brain is broken. As a teenager, there is still so much that is unformed; it’s maybe not broken per se, but there’s still much that is in progress. All of that was beautifully clarified listening to today’s episode of Fresh Air, as Terry Gross interviewed Dr. Frances Jensen of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

My new job means a 30 minute commute (if I’m lucky) each way. That’s long enough to give me some NPR time, and the ride home coincides with Fresh Air, one of my faves. Today, as I was hauling myself into the District for an appointment, I was able to listen to a really fascinating interview.