SpeakSooner.org

10/30/2025

Registration is now open for the SpeakSooner Community Education Fall Webinar, "There’s Not Enough Time! What Can Patients and Healthcare Providers Do About It?."

We have assembled a panel of experts who will address the persistent challenge of time limitations imposed by the healthcare system and what those providing and receiving care can do about it. The discussion will focus on interventions that benefit patient care while helping providers increase job satisfaction and workplace efficiencies. Audience Q&A will be offered via chat.

Our panelists are Col. James W. Baker (ret.), Patient & Independent Consultant, top left; Michael Welther, MD, Primary Care Physician (ret.), top right; Jessica Garnsey, PA-C, Cardiology Physician Assistant, Adirondack Medical Center, Saranac Lake, NY, bottom left. Mary Chamberlin, MD, Oncologist & Director of the Breast Cancer Program, Dartmouth Health, Lebanon, Associate Professor, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth, bottom middle, and patient Kevin Dailey, bottom right, will add their perspectives via pre-recorded video interview.

For the past 15 years the SpeakSooner Community Education series has introduced timely topics that can help to improve patient-provider communication and quality of care. As a recent attendee stated, “SpeakSooner offers the community a priceless gift. There is an overwhelming need and thirst for your expertise.” Register now at speaksooner.org.

10/27/2025

SpeakSooner Executive Director, Bernard Bandman, PhD, attended Technology for Cancer Supportive Care Training, sponsored by the National Institute of Health, at Mt Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center in NYC in September.

The goals of the conference and training were to empower oncologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, pharmacists, nurses, and social workers in enhancing patient care with supportive technology.

Training sessions offered hands-on experience in using digital apps and addressed top concerns of cancer patients: fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, depression, and pain - with the goal of improving patient outcomes.

Seen here, Speaker Matthew Loscalzo, L.C.S.W. Professor Emeritus, Department of Supportive Care Medicine, City of Hope (cancer research and treatment center, Duarte, CA ) left, and right, SpeakSooner Executive Director, Bernard M Bandman, PhD.

10/24/2025

Registration is now open for "What Can Patients and Healthcare Providers Do About It?" a SpeakSooner Community Education Webinar, Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 6 p.m. at speaksooner.org.

Our panel of experts will address the persistent challenge of time limitations imposed by the healthcare system and what those providing and receiving care can do about it.

The discussion will focus on interventions that benefit patient care while helping providers increase job satisfaction and workplace efficiencies. Audience Q&A will be offered via chat.

Kevin Dailey, a cardiology patient, will be participating via video. Hear some of Kevin's perspective in this short video clip below.

https://vimeo.com/1126591121

This is "Providers are always going to be under pressure" by CCM on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

10/21/2025

Registration is now open for "What Can Patients and Healthcare Providers Do About It?" a SpeakSooner Community Education Webinar, Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 6 p.m. at speaksooner.org.

Our panel of experts will address the persistent challenge of time limitations imposed by the healthcare system and what those providing and receiving care can do about it.

The discussion will focus on interventions that benefit patient care while helping providers increase job satisfaction and workplace efficiencies. Audience Q&A will be offered via chat.

Dr. Mary Chamberlin, MD, medical oncologist at Dartmouth Health and Associate Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth, will be participating via video. Below, Dr. Chamberlin shares some thoughts about time management in healthcare today.

https://vimeo.com/1123991609

This is "Mary Chamberlin, MD on time management challenges" by CCM on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

10/16/2025

Lidia Schapira, MD, Oncologist and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center speaks directly to the potential gap in communication between patients and clinicians. Watch below!

This is "I'm Talking Science" by CCM on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

10/12/2025

Registration is now open for "There’s Not Enough Time! What Can Patients and Healthcare Providers Do About It?" Wednesday, November 12 at 6 pm.

Our panel of experts will address the persistent challenge of time limitations imposed by the healthcare system and what those providing and receiving care can do about it. The discussion will focus on interventions that benefit patient care while helping providers increase job satisfaction and workplace efficiencies. Questions can be submitted at speaksooner.org and audience Q&A will be offered via chat. Register now!

https://speaksooner.org/not-enough-time-registration/

10/09/2025

Hope is personal; it can mean different things to different people. In this short video, Noel "Fritz" Fritzinger, talks about his hopes.

This is "Fritz talking about hope" by CCM on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

10/06/2025

"The most sensible policy would be to repeal the OBBBA and start over—certainly with changing the health provisions if not the entire law. There are ways to save on health care costs that would benefit the health system." Read more...

This JAMA forum discusses the cuts to US health care spending in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and their impacts on Medicare and Medicaid recipients, physicians, and hospitals, particularly those in rural areas.

10/03/2025

"Recent data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that from 2021 to 2023, people in the US aged 1 year or older consumed an average of 55% of their calories from ultraprocessed foods. For youth aged 1 to 18 years, ultraprocessed foods made up about 62% of their diets." Read more...

This Medical News article discusses a new American Heart Association science advisory on ultraprocessed foods, cardiometabolic health, and policy recommendations for improving dietary patterns.

09/30/2025

Stephen Berns, MD, Palliative Care Physician at University of Vermont, speaks about how good communication between patients and clinicians can build trust and understanding on both sides - and that helps to provide person centered, quality care.

vimeo.com/1106215395

This is "Importance of Healthcare Communication - Creating Connection" by CCM on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

09/27/2025

On Wednesday, November 12 at 6 pm the Center for Communication in Medicine will host a new SpeakSooner Community Education webinar titled There’s Not Enough Time! What Can Patients and Healthcare Providers Do About It?

For this program we have assembled a panel of experts who will address the persistent challenge of time limitations imposed by the healthcare system and what those providing and receiving care can do about it. The discussion will focus on interventions that benefit patient care while helping providers increase job satisfaction and workplace efficiencies. Audience Q&A will be offered via chat.

For the past 15 years the SpeakSooner Community Education series has introduced timely topics that can help to improve patient-provider communication and quality of care. As a recent attendee stated, “SpeakSooner offers the community a priceless gift. There is an overwhelming need and thirst for your expertise.”

The webinar is free and open to the public. Registration coming soon!

09/24/2025

Communicating your needs, preferences and goals makes it possible for your healthcare team to understand your decisions.

Joseph O'Donnell, MD, Emeritus Professor of Medicine (Oncology) and Dean of Dartmouth Medical School (ret.) talks about the importance of listening when working with patients.

This is "A Physician on the importance of listening" by CCM on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.