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Family physicians perform high-quality colonoscopies, but access is an issue

Common Sense Family Doctor

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) maintains that clinical privileges should be based on documented training and experience rather than the physician’s specialty. Thus, the decline in endoscopic care (including flexible sigmoidoscopy) by family physicians in both urban and rural areas is cause for concern.

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Letitia Bridges, MD, MBA, appointed to chief quality officer at The Permanente Federation

Permanente Medicine

As chief quality officer at The Permanente Federation, Dr. Bridges oversees coordination of national clinical quality care programs across Kaiser Permanente for its 12.6 She is also a member of the board of directors for The Southeast Permanente Medical Group and Hawaii Permanente Medical Group. Dr. Bridges joined SCPMG in 2008.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

So when I was a resident at Cleveland Clinic, I got to see really cutting-edge technology, some of the best surgeons in the country, and perhaps in the world, operating on patients. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. Eric: Let’s say tomorrow, a patient comes into your clinic. Eric: Mm-hmm.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

And the Ryan Haight Act I think was passed in 2008, which was in response to a young person who died of an opioid overdose. Because pre-pandemic, right, there was issues with you had to be boarded in the state, right? I would expect that the DEA or the state medical boards would be looking at volumes of prescriptions.