A Country Doctor Writes
JUNE 21, 2025
This week’s Journal has a very profound article about why healthcare has not evolved through its technology the way other sectors of society have. 1) Healthcare is not at all customer centered. 1) Healthcare is not at all customer centered. A Country Doctor Writes: is a reader-supported publication.
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Context Global healthcare systems are not prepared to care for the 55 million individuals worldwide affected by Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), with cases continuing to rise. In-depth interviews with clinicians (HCPs; n=87) and implementation team leads (n=14) were transcribed and subjected to directive content analysis.
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Permanente Medicine
APRIL 29, 2025
A new Kaiser Permanente study showed how an integrated colorectal cancer screening program cut cancer deaths in half, reduced incidence by nearly a third, and erased racial health disparities in screenings, incidence, and death rates. underscoring the need to raise awareness, screen proactively, and improve treatment.
Permanente Medicine
JUNE 25, 2025
By building an integrated, patient-centered colorectal cancer screening program, we doubled screening rates, cut deaths by 50%, and made major strides in closing racial disparities in outcomes. The approach was simple: consistently alert patients that it’s time to get screened and make getting screened as easy as possible.
GeriPal
MARCH 10, 2022
Many years ago for the first study; I believe it was in 2009, 2010; I met with Susan Mitchell at the Institute for Aging Research, and told her that I wanted to study the use of feeding tubes for people with advanced dementia. That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. My question is, why this study, and why now?
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