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Are you on track with your sustainability goals?

My Green Doctor

“ Climate action in the clinic is the cure we urgently need. ” — Dr. Todd Sack, Executive Director, My Green Doctor Are you on track with your sustainability goals? From rising asthma rates to heat-related illnesses, climate change is already harming the most vulnerable among us.

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Episode 74: On COVID-19 – A case-based discussion with Drs. Block, Thakur, and Chin-Hong

The Clinical Problem Solvers

He is a medical educator who specializes in treating infectious diseases, particularly infections that develop in patients who have suppressed immune systems, such as as solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients and HIV+ organ transplant recipients.

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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

It tells your office colleagues and patients that your healthcare practice or clinic is committed to forging a healthier work space and community. Relate sustainability topics to chronic disease prevention—air pollution and asthma, heat exposure and cardiovascular risks, food systems and metabolic health. Let’s talk!

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A classic educational video about the dangers of Repetitive Read Syndrome

PEMBlog

Symptoms include dictations including the same phrasing and suggesting clinical correlation repeatedly. We can help our Radiology colleagues by avoiding unnecessary chest X-ray orders for most children with respiratory problems such as bronchiolitis, asthma exacerbations, croup, or first-time wheezing.

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Green Practice News: May 2025

My Green Doctor

In This Issue : Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Medical Waste: One Model for Improvement OnTrack with your Sustainability Goals? Powering Health, Protecting the Planet – Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Healthcare professionals have always been trusted voices on public health.

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Announcing a new 5 part comprehensive education series featuring the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Choosing Wisely recommendations

PEMBlog

Do not obtain radiographs in children with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first-time wheezing. Do not obtain screening laboratory tests in the medical clearance process of pediatric patients who require inpatient psychiatric admission unless clinically indicated.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

I know we go back quite a ways and that this is a very important topic for all of us to really to talk about and to be educated about. When I started over 20 years ago, saw babies being born, used to do circumcisions in clinics, and then taking care of patients as they got more mature in their life, so to speak, and really loved that.