The RBV Blog

Check this out.  What you will find is a quick definition of this term which, as you have doubtless already guessed, refers to sustained weight gain following the pandemic.  You will also find some simple, straightforward reasons why such weight gain has become ubiquitous. Working at home, increased screen time exposing us to food advertisements, […]

Check this out.  What you will see is an important reminder of an obvious fact. Here, our friend The Country Doctor explains that it is not hard work, but inappropriate work, that causes physicians to burnout. Why, he asks, are all the non-physician players in healthcare encouraged to work “at the top of their licenses,” while […]

Check this out. What you will see is a really important video from Bob Lederer at RFL Communications. The point being made here? Numerous agency heads have observed that following the pandemic, virtually everyone is reshuffling their priorities. What was important before COVID-19 struck often isn’t so much anymore. Research suggests that both rich and […]

Check this out. What you will see is a thorough lesson on “how mass incarceration makes us sick”. Actually, you will see a double whammy described in this post. First, we are reminded that the high and growing rate of incarceration in the US does not provide us with the protection from crime that the general […]

As you will see in these survey results from FirstWord, that is the desired scenario for about half of the 100 doctors they polled. Throughout the six months of reporting on the results of my On Doctors’ MindsSM conversations, that about lines up with what I have been finding. As we predicted back in November […]

Non-vaxxers are not necessarily anti-vaxxers. Nope. They are just people who haven’t received the COVID vaccine.  Yet. For various reasons. And the variety of reasons is actually the theme of this NYT article.   As I pondered each of the segments described here, my main thought was to question which of the reasons offered by […]

Check this out. What you will see is a video by Dr. Dawn Sears. She’s known as “Gut Girl” because she is a Gastroenterologist, but for another reason as well. Besides her successful practice, she’s had the guts to establish a consulting business that, among other things, helps medical institutions achieve more engagement from their female […]

Check this out. What you will see is the prediction, published in Becker’s Hospital review, that while cases of COVID are mercifully declining, the effects of the pandemic on mental health will likely linger on for years.   Negative psychiatric pandemic sequelae come in a number of flavors. PTSD for the first responders and front-line medical workers who had […]

ThinkGen, partnering with Olson Research, has just released its findings from the April/May edition of our ongoing On Doctors’ MindsSM project. The in-depth conversations held with physicians this time around were scheduled and oriented so as to provide our clients with insights from physicians as to what the post-pandemic “reopening” will look like.   Take five minutes […]