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“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

My take, and extrapolation, is that there are three reasons why healthcare has failed to evolve in usefulness of both our product (the care we deliver) and our technology (our EMRs), our customer centeredness and the value/cost relationship of the services we provide. 1) Healthcare is not at all customer centered.

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What every physician should know about care experience (and why it matters)

Permanente Medicine

The patient reached out to me and asked what I thought or recommended because I had built that relationship with that patient, I had built that trust. Let’s get this important cancer screening test done. Let’s say a diabetic comes in and they’re on metformin. You’re all set. But they take it a step further.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

Because a lot of my colleagues, who are like transplant coordinators for example, are asking, “Can you help us better screened for which older adults would be fit enough to go for transplant? There’s really no added extra resource or time that the coordinators really need to put to doing the screening, themselves.

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Surfers play crucial role in beach safety according to study

Medical Xpress

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