article thumbnail

Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

This electronic tool uses artificial intelligence to sift through patients' demographics, claims, and other data to produce a list of those with the greatest likelihood of an emergency department visit or hospitalization, theoretically allowing primary care physicians to intervene to prevent the event and its associated medical expenses.

article thumbnail

Medicine is a Love that Finds Us

A Country Doctor Writes

I remember being in the hospital and having stomach X-rays and I have also been told we had a family doctor who made house calls. At age four I simply announced that I was going to become a doctor and I never hesitated after that. A Country Doctor Writes: is a reader-supported publication.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Health professionals speak out against the new nuclear arms race

Common Sense Family Doctor

The historical events depicted in the Academy Award–winning film Oppenheimer are no longer just history; at New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, for the first time in decades, the United States has resumed building plutonium cores.

article thumbnail

The Witness

StorytellERdoc

As the cardiologist and our ER team continued with resuscitation efforts, I went to the family room to speak to this patient's wife. Forty or so minutes had passed since the patient arrived and, as I had explained to the wife in the family room, time was not our friend. The family doctor was called. I thanked my team.

ER 100