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“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

I thought of it the other day when I put together a presentation about Galileo’s way of interacting with patients. The drugs are better, but the way patients engage with doctors during office visits and hospital stays is unchanged. We meet people where they are and in many different ways.

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Educational intervention utilizing population health managers to reduce COPD-related healthcare utilization [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: COPD patient self-management plans, including rescue packs (antibiotic and steroid combinations), are effective in reducing respiratory related emergency department (ED) visits and hospital readmissions. Data was collected from mailed quizzes, EHR utilization of smartphrases, and orders and from insurance claims.

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Presence of Cardiomyopathy in DLBCL Drives Treatment Decisions

Physician's Weekly

Upshaw, MD , and colleagues developed an anonymous electronic survey they emailed to 12 academic medical systems, three US lymphoma cooperative groups, and two community hospitals, and distributed at one international lymphoma meeting. Respondents were also asked about their real-world use of cardioprotective strategies over the past 5 years.

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

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

Joseph, the family medicine practice is committed to providing exceptional, affordable, patient-centered primary care in SW Michigan without reliance on insurance companies for payment of services. Joseph followed a traditional fee-for-service model, billing insurance companies for patient care. Anchored at 147 Peace Boulevard in St.

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Bias landmines.

Reflections of a Grady Doctor

My intern was presenting this patient to me at this exact time. A man in a hospital gown shuffled past us, IV tubes dangling from his wrist and forearms. I know if he was a white woman at Emory or even an insured black patient somewhere else, I probably wouldn't have suggested that. 12: 01 P.M. But we were almost there.

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Why Identifying and Managing Giant Cell Arteritis as an Emergency Is Crucial

Physician's Weekly

Giant cell arteritis is one of the most common when we see it, particularly when it presents with signs and symptoms of head and neck ischemia. If there’s visual symptoms, patients are often hospitalized for high dose intravenous symptoms. But treatment first, securing the diagnosis is secondary and often delayed.

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Episode 282: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 20 – Medical Racism and Indigenous Peoples

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Michael’s Hospital in Unity Health Toronto, and Dr. Alika Lafontaine, the current President of the Canadian Medical Association. Although healthcare services are publicly funded, access to medications depends on private or public insurance and is linked with employment.

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