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Racial health inequality in prostate cancer associated with facility-level disparities

Medical Xpress

Typically, patient-level and physician-level factors have been used to explain the racial and socioeconomic differences in prostate cancer disparities. Their results are published in Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations.

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What is a Leadership Course

LEAD Physician

Physicians must be leaders in their field to provide excellent patient care, manage a large team and coordinate between departments, and support their patient's overall health with information about prevention and maintenance. For example, a physician might be dealing with a patient who has just been diagnosed with cancer.

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Politics and practice guidelines: a volatile mix

The Health Policy Exchange

The annual budget for the National Institutes of Health , for example, is typically around 100 times that of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). However, when one of those guidelines suggested that spinal fusion surgery was unnecessary for most patients with acute low back pain, AHCPR found its budget under attack.

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The Angry Patient: A podcast with Dani Chammas and Keri Brenner

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Think about the last time a patient yelled at you in anger. Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? Ask why: What is underneath the anger for this particular patient? Taking care of the hateful patient.

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