The Direct Doctors Difference

MARCH 19, 2021

The Providence Journal conversely, ran a much more balanced assessment article. Every time large health organizations merge or consolidate, the purported benefits are advertised far and wide: continuity of care will improve, costs will go down, quality of care will go up and the health ecosystem will dramatically change.

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Permanente Medicine

JULY 8, 2025

And then I’m also joined by my colleague Dr. Nolan Chang, and he is a board-certified family medicine physician and executive vice president of Strategy, Corporate Development and Finance for The Permanente Federation. My articles would’ve gotten a lot longer, but not necessarily any better. SP: Thank you.

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GeriPal

JULY 3, 2025

This episode is a must-listen for those navigating the evolving landscape of cancer care, and asking not just how we treat cancer, but how we support people who are living with it. Their family may be impacted, they may have social pain. That’s the mission of palliative care, right? Survivors of care. 23:35 Right.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. And so the article focuses on the work of these three men who were mostly gang involved and did something really bad when they were young. Michele: Yep. Eric: A few years?

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

In today’s podcast we talk with surgeon Samir Shah and Health Services Researcher Joel Weissman about a pair of JAGS articles they published on the outcomes of high risk surgery and advance care planning among persons with dementia. She has advance dementia. Eric: Yeah. Eric: So, let’s talk about that. They would be horrified.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. That dawned on me.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

– @AlexSmithMD Here’s a link to an article about the Palliative Story Exchange. ** This podcast is not CME eligible. And I was interviewing candidates for our clinical fellowship and interviewed Alexis, who had been like family medicine doc before, done all kinds of cool things. Ricky 11:23 Yeah. So rewind a few years.

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