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

A Country Doctor Writes

This week’s Journal has a very profound article about why healthcare has not evolved through its technology the way other sectors of society have. 1) Healthcare is not at all customer centered. 1) Healthcare is not at all customer centered. A Country Doctor Writes: is a reader-supported publication.

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Maria Ansari, MD, FACC, named to Modern Healthcare’s list of 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives

Permanente Medicine

Modern Healthcare honors physicians and clinicians in executive roles for their exceptional achievements in driving innovation, improving outcomes, serving their communities, and demonstrating exemplary leadership both within and beyond their organizations. A digital subscription is required to view the online profiles.

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STATEMENT RELEASE: Reproductive Health Coalition Statement on Impact of Medicaid Cuts

Doctors for America

In the wake of ever rising healthcare costs, Medicaid provides a major lifeline for many Americans at all stages of life, from cradle to grave. The withdrawal of Medicaid threatens to endanger access to healthcare for all of these populations, with myriad immediate and long-lasting harms.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

So like as an example, in New York State, if someone has no healthcare proxy that they’ve designated, there is a legal structure by which we can assign a surrogate, whereas other states don’t have that same structure. But they also did not do the DPOA for healthcare form. So there’s no healthcare surrogate.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. He was describing his, like, 87 year old grandma who was placed on a low salt diabetic diet.

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On Racism & Ageism: Ramona Rhodes, Sharon Brangman, Tim Farrell, and Nancy Lundebjerg

GeriPal

I think that, as Ramona will talk about and elucidate a bit further, is just a recognition that in this country we have traditionally, and to my mind continue to do so, cause serious harm to Black people, that you can see that play out within healthcare in ways that are both big and small. Eric: Absolutely. I was going to stop at that point.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Why would CBT work for neuropathic pain and diabetes differently than it would work for neuropathic pain and cancer? Eric: This comes down to also like, if I find… As an oncologist, somebody has very high hypertension, is it my role to control that hypertension? AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Why would that be?

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