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Discover Direct Primary Care: An Excellent Choice for Uninsured, Underinsured, and High Deductible Health Plan Holders - Detroit and Royal Oak

Plum Health

Transparent Pricing: With DPC, you know exactly what you're paying for - no hidden costs, no complicated insurance bills. Personalized Care: As a DPC member at Plum Health, you receive care that's tailored to your specific needs, perfect for self-employed individuals and those without traditional insurance who require flexibility.

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Green Practice News – The Climate Issue June 2025

My Green Doctor

in the need for healthcare—translating into over 500 million extra days of inpatient hospital care and more than 100 million emergency department visits across Europe by 2050. In the United States, extreme weather events and air pollution are already costing the healthcare system over $820 billion annually.

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

GeriPal

And I’m using these personal sound amplification products, these PSAPs for young adults who are in their mid twenties, transitioning off of their parents’ insurance, or they’re going to college and they no longer qualify for Medicaid as a child, and they don’t have hearing aids anymore.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events. But patients have reported that they still recounted that event as something that was quite transformative and beneficial for them as well. Most participants are White and well-resourced.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

It was like kind of a co op with this common space that different groups could rent for events and meetings and things like that. We have recently, for our larger events, and even not as large events, we have people send us their stories. It was all covered by my mom’s insurance. And that works really well.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

For example, putting the healthy food at the back of the grocery store is sludge; making an applicant for health insurance climb the flight of stairs to the office – weeding out those less fit – is also sludge. The events are conditions that’ll be set into place unless some active choice to the contrary is chosen.

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Between Two Urns: Undertaker Thomas Lynch

GeriPal

And this seems very basic, but try it with your insurance agent or your pastor, you know, or your banker at 03:00 in the morning. Whereas in cultures that practice cremation properly, it’s a public event full of ceremony and ritual and expectation. And I’ve had since 1974 as the only funeral director in the town.

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