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Taking primary care to the next level?

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Ben Miller — No Comments ↓

How can we take primary care to the next level? Do we need to? It is well established that there is shortage of primary care providers in the country. From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): “In 2010,…

Tagged with: health policy, healthcare, primary care, workforce
Posted in healthcare, Innovation, medical education, workforce

Why healthcare workforce issues should matter to everyone

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Ben Miller — No Comments ↓

What healthcare workforce issue? Imagine this, you are new to healthcare insurance. For the first time in your life you are going to be able to go see a provider without worrying about if you can afford the outcome of…

Tagged with: healthcare, workforce
Posted in healthcare, medical education, workforce

How doctors should talk to your son…and to you

Posted on August 6, 2012 by RichmondDoc — No Comments ↓

A recent post on our blog highlighted the challenges patients all too often face when they are communicating (or attempting to communicate) with physicians. As a doctor, and as a teacher who has as a goal training empathic, patient-focused, humanistic…

Tagged with: communication, healthcare, system
Posted in healthcare, medical education

Occupy healthcare and palliative care: Part three – high quality and affordable healthcare lives in palliative care

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Ben Miller — 1 Comment ↓

Returning to my review of palliation and how it can lower cost and improve care for patients with serious illness. Again my thanks to Diane Meier, MD, PACP, Director, Center to Advance Palliative Care at the Mt. Sinai School of…

Tagged with: healthcare, palliative care
Posted in healthcare, medical education, palliative care

Occupy healthcare and palliative care: Part two – spend more, die sooner

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Ben Miller — No Comments ↓

Continuing my review of palliation and healthcare, I want to begin to examine our healthcare system and how it is simply not meeting the needs of our community. Again, I want to thank Diane Meier, MD, PACP, Director, Center to…

Tagged with: healthcare, palliative care
Posted in healthcare, Innovation, medical education, palliative care

On the shoulders of giants

Posted on February 2, 2012 by RichmondDoc — No Comments ↓

Dr. Barbara Starfield died in 2011. For many people, her name will not stand out. For those of us looking to improve our healthcare system, however, her work is of critical importance. Dr. Starfield is best known for her work…

Posted in healthcare, Innovation, medical education

An unbalanced, unfair system–a case study (N=1)

Posted on December 22, 2011 by RichmondDoc — 2 Comments ↓

About six weeks ago, while in clinic, I developed pain in my stomach–specifically, in my right upper quadrant, just below the ribs. I had experienced this a few times before, but this time it seemed more persistent than usual. Following…

Tagged with: healthcare, healthcare system
Posted in healthcare, Innovation, medical education

How well do you know Grand Junction, Colorado?

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Ben Miller — 1 Comment ↓

Grand Junction, Colorado has important lessons to teach the country about healthcare. These lessons have very real and practical implications for any redesign of healthcare. In fact, some may say that many of the answers to the unanswerable question of…

Tagged with: change, Colorado, health, healthcare, innovation, insurance
Posted in healthcare, medical education, public health, Social Determinents of Health

How will you occupy World AIDS Day?

Posted on December 1, 2011 by crgonzalez — No Comments ↓

The theme for this year’s World AIDS Day on December 1st is “Leading with Science, Uniting for Action.” While the vision for the National HIV/AIDS Strategy is commendable and details action steps, what is missing is a mandate for congressional…

Tagged with: AIDS, healthcare, HIV, public health
Posted in Community, Health behavior, healthcare, Innovation, medical education, public health