2020 Huddles/Rounds Tests 
Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
Ordering diagnostic tests is a standard procedure for physicians; yet if the test results aren’t reviewed and acted upon, what was the point of ordering the test? In June of 2020, Dr P ordered a chest scan for the patient. “ Physicians who overlook test results do their patients a disservice — possibly a fatal one.
Sensible Medicine
MARCH 2, 2024
Yet, from 2020-2022, I was not asked to debate these topics at any university. In December 2023, at UCSF, I debated my colleague, George Rutherford, in front of an epidemiology audience on 2 propositions: Should you test for COVID-19 if you feel sick? Subscribe now As of today, I have been invited to just 2 debates.
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Health Populi
MAY 21, 2020
adults 18 to 74 years of age in the first week of May 2020. One in 5 of people with health insurance were concerned about losing their health plan in the next six months as the coronavirus heats up, recedes, and may re-emerge in the fourth quarter of 2020 into 2021. 42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment.
Health Populi
APRIL 3, 2020
with the largest gross domestic product on Earth in 2020, out fragmented health care system and 50-State Federalist approach has proven to land Americans in first place for steepest infection curve as of early April 2020. With test kit and reagent shortages, ventilator un. In the U.S.,
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
In 2020, Genentech launched its first study into health inequities. Medically disenfranchised patients are not participating in clinical trials, vaccinations, and testing due to lack of trust. We must give them reasons to believe in the healthcare system.
Setting Sights
MAY 2, 2022
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. Just one more year , I sobbed to myself. I’m going back to Medical School.
Setting Sights
AUGUST 11, 2021
The Consultant had previously told me on ward-rounds, “You made yourself come in. Just one month after my diagnosis, still bedbound and in hospital, I tested positive for COVID-19, just a few days after Christmas Day. From then on, there were occasions where I had to remove my hearing-aids during the ward-round.
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