Enclothed Cognition

In today's article featured on the Harvard Business Review's Leading Health Care Innovation insight center, "Understanding the Drivers of the Patient Experience," authors James I. Merlino and Ananth Raman discuss a few innovations in approaches to patient satisfaction.

As the U.S. population grows older, demand for all physician specialties is rising dramatically across the country. The Association of American Medical Collegesestimates that the U.S. will face a shortage of more than 90,000 physicians by 2020 and 130,000 by 2015.

This year 99.4% of the 29,171 available medical residency positions at major U.S. teaching hospitals were filled. We’d like to help you with another "match.'

We are proud to offer professional women’s lab coats to AWS members.  Our new member benefit provides a discount on all Medelita products, Sanita clogs and doctor bags. This is a new relationship and we're confident that the synergies are very strong.

A few months ago Ingrid A. Carlson, MD of Mountain View Family Eye Care in Colorado Springs, CO, contacted Medelita to order scrubs to take on her Pediatric Ophthalmology Medical Mission to Grenada. We were immediately inspired by Dr. Carlson’s story, which is outlined below: “Last year while on vacation in the Caribbean I noticed a newspaper photo of Santa Claus with a child on his knee. The child was about 18 months and severely cross-eyed. The picture was supposed to look “cute”, but I knew functional blindness from amblyopia was possible. Out of simple curiosity I said to the receptionist at the hotel, “Oh, back in the states I do that kind of surgery to straighten children’s eyes. Who would this child see here?” She answered, “No one.” Again, I said, “Oh, you mean no one on this island, but surely if he went to a larger island he could see a doctor there.” She replied, “Maybe if his parents are rich they will fly him to Miami, but we have no one in the Caribbean.” Stunned, I returned home and researched this. Sure enough, I could identify no Caribbean pediatric eye surgeon. How could I let the people of these islands I loved, wait on me, clean my room, maintain my hotel grounds, drive me from place to place, and I do nothing in return? So...I sent a few letters out to some of the medical facilities in the Caribbean. Saint George’s University on Grenada responded and invited me to come. I am told we will be the first pediatric eye surgeons on this island in over ten years.” We were so thrilled to be able to contribute what we could for the Mission, and we sent Dr. Carlson a scrub top embroidered with her Mission’s logo. Recently she returned from the trip reporting that her team saw over one hundred children in clinic, and were able to perform “life-changing surgery” on many. She sent us the stories of a couple of her patients in Grenada with pictures included, which we have scanned and posted below (click to enlarge). Medelita would like to congratulate Dr. Carlson and her team for their incredible work improving the lives of those who might otherwise never have this opportunity. Keep up the good work! If you or your group is involved in volunteer work, please tell us about it and we’ll post your story here.

FasterCures, the Washington-based center of the Milken Institute, conducted the fourth annual Partnering for Cures meeting Nov. 28-30, 2012 in New York to advance the goal of bringing effective therapies to patients faster. Part of the meeting included an idea hatched by Mike Milken himself: “So many of these amazing doctors are musicians,” he told Musical Director Glen Roven, “I want you to put together a band of doctors.” Thus a live concert by the “Rock Docs” became a part of the meeting. Musical Director Glen Roven chose Medelita Lab Coats to outfit the 15 piece band of National Institute of Health leadership. This photo includes Rock Docs: Sally J Rockey, PhD – Director of Office of Extramural Research, NIH ; Dr. Francis S. Collins, NIH Director; Alan S. Wayne, MD - Head, Hematologic Diseases Section at National Cancer Institute; and John T. Burklow, Director, Office of Communications and Public Liaison, NIH.

It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce that October 6th - October 12th, 2012 as official Physician Assistant Week in San Clemente, California where Medelita is located. At a meeting with San Clemente's Mayor Jim Evert and the San Clemente City Council, Lara Francisco, PA-C and Founder of Medelita said in a speech to commemorate the occasion, “It’s an honor to promote the PA profession, and National PA Week is an important time to recognize the critical role of PAs working in all medical and surgical specialties." Mayor Jim Evert, whose own daughter works in medicine, emphasized the importance of PAs in the city's numerous public and private healthcare offices and facilities. He also commended the work of Lara Francisco, PA-C who founded a steadily growing business built and currently operating out of one of San Clemente's burgeoning office and commercial centers that caters directly towards increasing the quality of professional life for her colleagues in the PA profession. Lara was presented a plaque (pictured) that states the following:

WHEREAS: Quality, affordable and accessible patient-centered health care, provided by skilled practitioners, contributes to the well-being and quality of life for all citizens of our community; and

WHEREAS: Physician Assistants (PAs) are academically and clinically, trained and licensed to provide patient-centered health care services in partnership with physicians, including examinations, diagnosis, treatment, therapy, and preventive healthcare services, in addition to prescribing medications; and

WHEREAS: Physician Assistants are valuable assets to the medical community, as they work with physicians to expand access to the delivery of high-quality health care for patients, and do so with a level of care that research has shown to be comparable to the quality of care provided by physicians for similar services; and

WHEREAS: Physician Assistants have earned the respect and appreciation of the general public for their skill, dedication and contribution to people’s lives, working in partnership with the health care team to ensure delivery of efficient and effective health care services at a time when the nation is experiencing a shortage of primary care doctors and an aging population has increased the demand for health care services;

THEREFORE, I, JIM EVERT, Mayor of the City of San Clemente, California, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the laws of the City of San Clemente, California, do hereby proclaim the Week of October 6th through October 12th, 2012, as PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT WEEK IN SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA throughout the city, and I urge my fellow citizens to join me in recognizing PAs for the significant impact they have made and continue to make as critical members of our health care teams.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the City of San Clemente, California to be affixed this 6th day of October, 2012.

Jim Evert, Mayor

The team is returning from a cross-country trip to Boston, from the annual Yankee Dental Conference.  One of our biggest and most exciting shows of the year. 

Our logo of the day . . . the prestigious AMWA logo. Medelita is honored to embroider the American Medical Women's Association logo for AMWA members. Embroidered in colors black and copper, the AMWA logo can be embroidered onto any of our women's lab coats as requested. Look for updates to our website in January that will allow you to easily include professional organization embroidery with your lab coat order. Do you prefer to have your professional organization logo embroidered onto your lab coat, or simply name & title embroidery?

December is an exciting time for us, here at Medelita.  We're offering all customers within the 48 contiguous states, free shipping with GUARANTEED delivery by December 24th.