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Doctor’s Failure to Follow Up on Medical Test Leads to Large Settlement

Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for physicians to order tests and then fail to follow up on results — often due to the sheer volume of patients that the physician sees. In June of 2020, Dr P ordered a chest scan for the patient. That fall, in November 2020, Mr W had a telehealth appointment with Dr P.

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Nursing Leadership: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

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Key competencies and attributes of nurse leaders include the following: Understands the correlation between a strong team and high levels of patient quality and safety. Maintains a physical presence through onsite visits, rounding, or huddles to provide direct support and appreciation.

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“The virus is the boss” — U.S. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021

Health Populi

economic outlook following today’s news that the U.S. economy lost 140,000 jobs — the greatest job loss since April 2020 in the second month of the pandemic. The 2020-21 economic recession is the first time in U.S. history that a downturn had nothing to do with the economy per se.

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Trust My Doctor and Fear the Office: The Telehealth Opportunity in and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health Populi

Patients’ concerns of COVID-19 risks have led them to self-ration care in the following ways: 41% have delayed health care services. Patients’ concerns of COVID-19 risks have led them to self-ration care in the following ways: 41% have delayed health care services. adults 18 to 74 years of age in the first week of May 2020.

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Genentech’s Look Into the Mirror of Health Inequities

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In 2020, Genentech launched its first study into health inequities. This year Genentech followed up the 2020 exploration of patients’ perspectives, adding in the health care provider/physician view on health equity. We must give them reasons to believe in the healthcare system.

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The Words I Thought I’d Never Say – ‘I’m Going Back To Medical School’

Setting Sights

2020 marked the start of my hellish journey, and a hellish journey it was for so many , but for me it meant a bunch of new, life-changing diagnoses, a kind of sentence that would mean everything changing, nothing ever being the same again. I had been left again, slipped from any system of follow-up or overseeing care.

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Can Telemedicine Increase Health Equity? A Conversation with Antoinette Thomas, Dave Ryan, and Me with the ATA

Health Populi

In my responses to these questions, I talked about the following, sharing some links with you that underpinned my remarks. I noted this Morning Consult survey , data shown here, finding that people of color who were lower-income as of June 2020 had a more difficult time paying for Internet and phone bills than white people with lower incomes.