article thumbnail

Perspective: Audio phone visits with medical providers remain crucial links to delivering equitable health care

Medical Xpress

Writing in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, two telemedicine experts and a historian at Johns Hopkins Medicine say audio-only telephone visits are an essential link to health care providers for patients without access to video visit options.

article thumbnail

Researchers Propose Solutions to Improve GLP-1 RA Access

Physician's Weekly

Cost-Sharing Program Benefits Patient Rashida Khan, PhD , and colleagues presented a case in which a 56-year-old African American woman with a BMI of 40 kg/m 2 was denied insurance coverage for GLP-1 receptor agonist therapy. Health is a social good, and thus society has an obligation to provide health services that address the needs of all.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Mental Health in Michigan: A Direct Primary Care Approach

Plum Health

Long wait times, high costs, and limited availability of providers can make it feel like you're on your own. This means they can provide personalized care and support. Affordable Care: The fixed monthly fee for direct primary care can be a more affordable option than traditional insurance plans.

article thumbnail

Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. They didn’t have a mentor, a financial provider, all of those things. He provides spiritual support to the patients, to the staff, and to the peer workers.

Families 132
article thumbnail

PRESS RELEASE: Coalition Acts to Protect Pregnant Patients’ Federal Right to Emergency Care, Including Abortion

Doctors for America

This federal law has required hospitals with emergency departments to provide stabilizing treatment, including abortion, to patients experiencing medical emergencies for nearly four decades. EMTALA was designed to protect patients in crisis. Find out more at doctorsforamerica.org and on BlueSky @drsforamerica.

article thumbnail

Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

GeriPal

And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. Eric 17:46 Well, how do you train them, the frontline people seeing these patients, healthcare providers, geriatricians, oncologists? So provide multiple sort of concrete examples of what you’re talking about. Areej 24:39 For sure.

Illness 130