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

Permanente Medicine

They’re due for cervical cancer screening, that they get that if they are due for a lab test, they get that. When my call center agent speaks to the patient on the phone, they make sure that if they’re due for mammogram, that they get the mammogram. Now you noticed I said everyone but the doctor.

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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

Moral injury is a normal human response to an abnormal traumatic event—a deep soul wound shattering one’s identity and morality. If we don’t name the definitive diagnosis, how do we progress to appropriate labs, tests, and interventions? Should we choose a diagnosis based on what’s socially acceptable?

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

If you have two or more febrile seizures, you have a 50% chance of subsequent events. And use lab tests, and especially CT scans of the brain judiciously. to have any central nervous system abnormalities seen on imaging, nor any significant metabolic or infectious abnormalities seen on targeted lab testing.

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