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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

Larger companies now dominate the healthcare landscape, yet through innovation and a dedication to exceptional patient care, Family Physicians of St. Family Physicians of St. Family Physicians of St. Eggebrecht joined in 1993, at a time when family doctors still rounded in the hospital and delivered babies.

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STATEMENT RELEASE: Reproductive Health Coalition Statement on Impact of Medicaid Cuts

Doctors for America

Medicaid provides care for low-income families, people with disabilities, children, the elderly, and pregnant people, as well as many safety-net hospitals, community health centers, and nursing and long-term care facilities. How Are Income and Wealth Linked to Health and Longevity (Urban Institute and Center on Society and Health, Apr.

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

GeriPal

More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. Today Liz Dzeng discusses her journey towards studying this issue in detail. I guess the VA is federal though.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?”

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Heather: I do Alex, and I’m so happy to have this song request, it’s called The Eye by Brandi Carlile, which comes from a quite old 2015 album called The Firewatcher’s Daughter. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. So I would love to hear.

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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 then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. And as of 2015, the survey started to ask folks about cancer history, just some broad questions about lifetime history of cancer and whether they’ve had a cancer diagnosis in the past year. And they ask questions like, have you used substances?

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