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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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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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Medicine is a Love that Finds Us

A Country Doctor Writes

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. It snatched me, a quiet four year old boy, almost sixty [ eight(!) ] years ago. I don’t know how it happened.

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Episode 155: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 5 – Racism, Power, and Policy: Building the Antiracist Health Systems of the Future

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Harvard Medical School Primary Care Blog. Creating a segregated medical profession: African American physicians and organized medicine, 1846-1910. 1:05:57 Outtakes Takeaways Name Racism for What It Is If we don’t explicitly say the word racism, and identify its historical context, then we are complicit in its denial.

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I Feel Things.

StorytellERdoc

What started as a small adventure and challenge from my writing group, with my first posting on November 19, 2009, turned into quite an amazing ride throughout the literary and social media world. Well, well, well.hello my long, lost friends. I missed you! I am human and I have flaws. My life isn't perfect. Not even close. Let me share. "I

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FDA Knows Its Own Strength—and It Includes Concentration

FDA Law Blog

This of course, make sense—after decades of experience implementing the Hatch-Waxman, Congress and FDA had learned a few new tricks by 2009/2010. To Boehringer’s first and most significant argument, that Congress intended the terms “strength” to match FDA’s interpretation in 2009—prior to the codification of the definition in 21 C.F.R.

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President Biden Gives the Green Light for Significant Marijuana Reform

FDA Law Blog

As of earlier this year , 37 states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for medical use and 19 states and the District of Columbia have legalized cannabis for adult recreational use. HHS has undertaken scientific and medical evaluations of marijuana in recent years.

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