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Episode 177: Wdx #10 – Negotiations

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Katrina Armstrong is the Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chair of the Department of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief of Massachusetts General Hospital. Through her role, she bridges educational and hospital leadership to engage frontline staff into the institutional quality, safety, and value mission.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

In 2016, The Guardian reported that a blind woman suffering from this disease was fitted with the implant labelled “bionic eye” in the UK as part of a trial at the Oxford Eye Hospital. Running trials in animals will take additional engineering and safety tests. That must have been truly amazing! solutions for eye care, though.

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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

Misplaced Training Dollars: Lack of funding for community-based training impacting the primary care physician pipeline Hospital-based graduate medical education (GME) receives significantly more funding than community-based programs, a disparity linked to fewer new primary care physicians entering the workforce. In 2022, only 24.4%

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2025 Physician Wellness Retreats | Physician “Burnout” Retreats

Pamela Wible MD

Your retreat includes: Daily spa treatments and gourmet meals delivered to your hot tub A personalized business launch plan: from fee structure to client contracts Search-engine-optimized website copy and marketing strategy 20 hours of bonus Live Your Dream Fast Track training —free! All retreats are 100% tax deductible as a business expense.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

My great-grandmother in particular had a very profound hearing loss and I don’t know, as a kid, I was obsessed with taking them apart and wanted to do more of the engineering side. And honestly in undergrad I was like, “Engineering is really hard. My own work focuses on hospitalization and health utilization over time.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

I know we go back quite a ways and that this is a very important topic for all of us to really to talk about and to be educated about. And then, so from that point on, I began to look at technology systems, processes for all settings, inpatient, outpatient care at home, a hospital at home. Outside of work.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

Self-surveillance solutions, disease guides, educational apps as well as telehealth platforms appeared naturally in dermatology in the past decade. 4) Cureskin The artificial intelligence-based app was developed by two engineers previously working for Google , and it aims to compensate for the lack of dermatologists in India.

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