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Winning the Battle Against Obesity – Digital Health Visions

The Medical Futurist

Instead, Kate downloads a report from her app and sensor, compiling all the data on her diet, activity, and achievements. When we discuss digital health, it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture. How can these new solutions seamlessly integrate into our lives, our healthcare systems, and our overall health management? In 2022, 2.5

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Episode 282: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 20 – Medical Racism and Indigenous Peoples

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Although healthcare services are publicly funded, access to medications depends on private or public insurance and is linked with employment. The dehumanization of individuals of color at the margins of society by the healthcare system is not simply a thing of the past, and is certainly a persistent phenomenon.

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An Arm and a Leg: The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part I

Physician's Weekly

In this first installment of a two-part series, “An Arm and a Leg” shares lessons from Bob’s experience navigating a maze of pharmacies and insurance companies to get his daughter the medicine she needs. When Bob changed jobs, the price tag for his daughter’s medication went through the roof. He left without it.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

Read transcript and/or download & listen to MP3 below:  Physician burnout—symptom of a broken system “Burnout” has become one of the most talked-about issues in healthcare—but behind the buzzword lies a deeper crisis. But is it really burnout—or something more serious? Thank you for joining us Dr. Wible. To be real.

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