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“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

Since we basically don’t have a clue, let alone agreement, about what Quality really is ( see my 2009 post “ Quality or Conformity? The drugs are better, but the way patients engage with doctors during office visits and hospital stays is unchanged. We meet people where they are and in many different ways.

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Medicine is a Love that Finds Us

A Country Doctor Writes

I remember being in the hospital and having stomach X-rays and I have also been told we had a family doctor who made house calls. I Googled his name and found another article he had written, in 2009, in the Swedish Medical Journal, Läkartidningen. Medicine is a love that finds us wherever we happen to be.

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Oregon-based medical group Northwest Permanente announces affiliation with The Permanente Medical Group of Northern California

Permanente Medicine

Consolidation of hospitals, medical groups, and health plans are occurring throughout the United States,” said Dr. Koh. Hospital Model of Care: NWP will work with TPMG on the Hospital Model of Care and Telecritical Care, a virtual care program for patients in the ICU. million members in California.

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Tsai has seen race-based medicine play out in clinical practice 10:45 What role should race play in making clinical decisions? 13:16 Status of the current conversation on removing race from eGFR calculators: why is it so contentious? Poet Marge Piercy has written, “The work of the world is as common as mud.”

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. When I’m on service these days there is inevitably a moment when a resident says “Patient so-and-so is on X” – and I have absolutely no idea what X is.

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How to replace a gastrostomy tube

PEMBlog

At that point you can follow the step of inserting new G-tube Bonus Videos This video is by Nemours Children’s Hospital. 11, 2009, pp. The original post was authored by Ashley Endres in 2018. Gastrostomy tubes can be placed surgically or endoscopically. It is important to determine how the G-tube was placed and how long ago.

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Former FDAer Dr. Ellis F. Unger Joins Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C. as Principal Drug Regulatory Expert

FDA Law Blog

He completed his cardiology training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1987. Dr. Unger transitioned to the Office of Drug Evaluation-I in 2009, and became its Director in 2012.