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Is the Lifespan & Care New England Merger good for Rhode Island?

The Direct Doctors Difference

The majority of our blogs focus on the healthcare system in general, and how direct primary care can help fill in some of the gaps. If you haven’t heard, the long anticipated merger between Lifespan and Care New England has been announced. The Providence Journal conversely, ran a much more balanced assessment article.

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What’s next for value-based care

Permanente Medicine

My articles would’ve gotten a lot longer, but not necessarily any better. Can you imagine if you change your financial consultant every two years and they based your performance of your portfolio based on that last year? Well, what would’ve happened? And unfortunately, fee for service medicine is quite similar to that.

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Should Palliative Care be in the Survivorship Business? A Podcast with Laura Petrillo, Laura Shoemaker

GeriPal

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. And so I wonder if a way to think about our role would be when we are seeing patients for whom survivorship care is applicable. Survivors of care.

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

GeriPal

Today we learn more about coaching from 3 coaches: Greg Pawlson, coach and former president of the American Geriatrics Society, Vicky Tang, geriatrician-researcher at UCSF and coach , and Beth Griffiths, primary care internist at UCSF and coach. Eric: … in geriatrics as a primary care doctor? Eric: Yeah.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

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. We’re available, palliative care. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Mm-hmm. Last question from me.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

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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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

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. It just depends.

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