Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 15, 2025

By engaging with lawmakers and key stakeholders, the Academy worked to ensure that the voices of family physicians were heard in discussions that have the potential to impact healthcare delivery and access for communities across the state. What Happened: The Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation Education did not meet to discuss the bill.

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Insurance Family Physician Hospital Management 130

The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

As I continue onward in my journey writing a physician finance guide one chapter at a time, I wanted to tackle investing. How, then, can any physician find the time to research individual companies and make educated decisions on which publicly traded businesses are undervalued? We simply cannot. Do not worry.

Finance 52

Finance Individual Management IT 52

The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

However, this is a personal finance blog, and for me, it goes beyond that. Helene highlighted that even wealthy communities and well-financed and well-educated populations can be caught off guard and devastated. Is there anything to be learned from all of this? Low and high socioeconomic classes alike, no one is spared.

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Insurance Finance Community Medical Advice 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 14: Race, Place, and Health: Clinician and Community Perspectives Show Notes by Alec Calac February 15th, 2022 Summary: This episode highlights how racism manifests in the built environment, and how community and individual-level efforts can mitigate these inequities.

Community 52

Community Individual Mental Health IT 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. We’ve had difficulty in recruiting and engaging in those communities, and that’s on our end. It’s not on the community’s end. So it matters a lot to the person, to their family, to the community.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

My favorite line from Emily’s paper: “Geriatric assent has not been widely adopted in clinical care, but bioethicists should advocate for this, as adoption of partial-involvement strategies can prolong the period in which individuals are (appropriately) engaged in decisions about their health care.” I’m not going to talk about finances.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 98

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? You know, I work in the VA and we have somebody who doesn’t have the finances to support a stay in a nursing home and they’re on hospice. But some of these things are addressable potentially through education. And it’s amazing.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78