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Kaiser Permanente study shows screening efforts cut colorectal cancer deaths in half

Permanente Medicine

These results spotlight the need to erase health disparities and remove barriers such as lack of awareness about screenings and checkups. The electronic health record system automatically prompts care teams to schedule patients for health screenings.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. But I believe before we start, somebody has a song request for Alex. Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is. Eric: What’s the song? Emmy: I just forgot the name of the song… [laughter]. Alex: Pink Cadillac by Bruce Springsteen? I like that song.

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