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

A Country Doctor Writes

We provide many more services over the phone and virtually and we have a whole division for preventative care. We are being crushed by mandated screenings for everything from obesity to domestic abuse ( see my post “ Brief is Good ”). We meet people where they are and in many different ways.

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Reducing cancer deaths, one test at a time

Permanente Medicine

At Kaiser Permanente of Northern California (KPNC), we’ve proven what’s possible when prevention becomes a systemwide priority. 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.