Here’s a snippet of my reading for the last two weeks as I took a writing break over Spring Break.

• Experiencing Life, Briefly, Inside a Nursing Home by the The New York Times (This article and video was actually published in 2009, but it’s so great. A family member passed it on to me this week, and I’m so glad she did. Watch the video!)
• County Rankings Illustrate Population Health by HealthLeaders Media
• People Think Candy Bars with Green Nutrition Labels Are Healthier by PopSci
• What Would Steve Do? 10 Lessons from the World’s Most Captivating Presenters by Inbound Marketing Channel via SlideShare
• Pondering Dreams by JParadisiRN
• An exciting search engine that helps diagnose rare medical diseases, called Find Zebra by iMedicalApps
• First Woman to Command the International Space Station by NASA
• Push for price transparency in healthcare by The Atlanta-Journal Constitution
  
• Let the eat cake Later: Americans hosting “fitness parties” by Reuters
• Bundled Payments Come to Cancer Care by HealthLeaders Media
• Should Your Doctor Pray with You? by The Atlantic
• Patients balk at considering cost in medical decision-making, survey says by the Washington Post
• Colonoscopy ‘Potentially Inappropriate’ for 30% of Seniors by HealthLeaders Media
• What Hospitals Charge the Uninsured by The New York Times
• Let’s Have Dinner and Talk About Death by The Health Care Blog
• The Ideal Praise-to-Criticism Ratio by The HBR Blog Network
• Uninsured Americans 2012: More than 45 Million Lacked Health Insurance Last Year, CDC Reports by The Huffington Post
• When States Reject Medicaid Expansion, Providers, Businesses Will Pay by HealthLeaders Media
• Widespread Flaws Found in Ovarian Cancer Treatment by The Wall Street Journal
• Fearing Cancer, Woman with Lynch Syndrome Has Colon Removed by ABC News
• Human Connection and the Downside of Private Hospital Rooms by The Atlantic
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the Sequel by The New York Times
• “Readmits Are Not A Quality Measure”: Q & A With Harvard’s Ashish Jha, MD, MPH by The Hospitalist Leader
• When Nurse-Patient Boundaries Blur, in Fact or Fiction by AJN’s Off the Charts
• The movement to start evaluating blogging and tweets on par with academic publications by iMedicalApps
• What Our Upbringing Tells Us About Our Procrastination Habit by 99u
• Veti-Gel Instantly Stops Bleeding and Closes Wounds of Any Size it Can Cover by Next Big Future

Whew! What are you reading these days?