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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients?

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For family medicine workforce, HHS reorganization plan receives a failing grade

Common Sense Family Doctor

While I'm grateful for subspecialists who alleviate pain, rescue patients who are unable to breathe on their own, manage complicated fractures, and replace worn-out hips and knees, the gap between the number of family doctors we need and the number we have keeps getting wider. This is where the federal government must step up.

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

Common Sense Family Doctor

Now the Department of Government Efficiency is trying again, threatening 90% staff reductions that would decimate the agency. Nonetheless, its work has often been politically unpopular and unheralded outside of a small community of health services researchers and patient advocates.

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PRESS RELEASE: Coalition Sues to Block Trump Administration’s Affordable Care Act Rollback that Threatens Health Care Access for More than Two Million Americans

Doctors for America

The new “Marketplace Integrity and Affordability” rule, adopted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), would result in more than 2.2 The policy would disproportionately harm low-income families, communities of color, and patients with chronic or serious medical needs.