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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

However, in 2016 they began to realize that the rules and oversight from insurance companies and government entities were creating an environment that took the focus of physicians away from the patients and onto their computers and the completion of irrelevant busywork. Joseph has succeeded in doing just that.

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Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N. Johnson, MD, FACP, FIDSA , Senior Vice President for Academic and Medical Affairs at ABIM, led a discussion with the Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board on community practice in the specialty to create a more inclusive understanding of its role and scope.

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A family physician's response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade

Vida Family Medicine

I care deeply about each and every one of my patients, and I do not want a difference in opinion to create a wedge in our relationship. When I was a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine, I participated in their Ethics track. Those who oppose abortion rights have celebrated this decision, but I think this is unwise.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Social pain and loneliness.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

But before we go into all of that, I think, Bill, you have a song request for Alex. Bill 01:52 I do. Bill 01:53 Alex asked me for a song that was resonating in my head at the time, and it would be Guy Clark’s song, T he Cape. Eric 02:01 Why guy Clark’s the Cape? Bill 02:03 Oh, it’s a long story. I’ll make sure. Here we go.

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PRESS RELEASE: Doctors, Local Governments File Brief to Defend Reproductive Health Care Privacy Rights

Doctors for America

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doctors for America PO Box: 21161 2300 18th St NW Lbby Washington, DC 20009-9996 May 5, 2025 Doctors, Local Governments File Brief to Defend Reproductive Health Care Privacy Rights Brief Argues that Upending HIPAA Privacy Rights Would Contradict Decades of Established Precedent WASHINGTON, D.C.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

We discuss, among other things: Findings that in several studies AI was rated by patients as more empathetic than human clinicians (not less, that isn’t a typo). Turns my concern about lack of empathy from AI on its head – the AI may be more empathetic than clinicians, not less. ” Eric: What was it called again, Wachter’s World?

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