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

Permanente Medicine

Affiliation will allow groups to drive high-value care and innovation PORTLAND, ORE, April 16, 2025 – Oregon-based Northwest Permanente (NWP) and The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) of Northern California announced a formal affiliation today. Most transactions are largely focused on size, scale, and finance.

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

A Country Doctor Writes

Most medical practices are still stuck doing piecework. Even the required operational framework for Patient Centered Medical Home recognition is completely top-down. Since we basically don’t have a clue, let alone agreement, about what Quality really is ( see my 2009 post “ Quality or Conformity?

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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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Episode 288: WDx #23: Clinical Unknown Discussion with Dr Rebecca Berger

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Rebecca Berger Rebecca is an academic hospitalist and assistant professor of medicine at Weil Cornell Medicine and New York Presbyterian Hospital. She served as a NEJM Editorial Fellow from 2016-2017 and worked as a hospitalist at MGH before moving to Cornell in 2018.

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Episode 242: WDx #17 – “The Next Play”

The Clinical Problem Solvers

She decided to pursue medicine and went to medical school at Rutgers NJMS and is completing her MPH from Johns Hopkins. She has served as the Program Director for the Duke Internal Medicine Residency since 2009, a job she considers to be both the best job ever and a continuous welcome challenge! in Human Biology, Health & Society.

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Episode 68: Human Dx unknown with Rabih & UNC residents – lower extremity weakness

The Clinical Problem Solvers

She completed medical school at Texas Tech University Health Science Center. She is pursuing a career in hospital medicine and is interested in medical education and diagnostic clinical reasoning. Kumfer is a third year resident at the University of North Carolina Internal Medicine Residency.

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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality. These factors include a high-protein diet, muscle mass, creatinine generation, and certain medications.

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