RoS: Review of Systems

This week our guests Adele Ojeda and Dr. Stephen Martin share their experiences caring for patients with OUD in the primary care setting.

This week we have a reprise episode with Russ Phillips! Dr. Russell Phillips joins us to talk about a recent publication in JAMA IM that he wrote with a number of collaborators including other Center for Primary Care faculty, entitled: Association of Primary Care Physician Supply With Population Mortality in the United States, 2005-2015.

Dr. Margot Kushel joins us this week to discuss the health effects associated with homelessness.

Dr. Steven Woolf joins us this week to talk about his work improving our understanding of the increasing death rates among mid-life Americans.

Christopher Morley joins us this week to talk about prior authorizations, or PAs – a bureaucratic headache well known to anyone in primary care in which a physician’s office must complete additional paperwork or phone calls to a patient’s insurance company in order to get a medication or procedure covered by the insurance. This used to be a fairly rare occurrence, but it has dramatically increased in frequency over the last 20 years or so. Dr. Morley set out with some colleagues to try to quantify how much the PA process may cost, and moreover, to help us all think about who pays those costs in reality – ultimately, it is our patients.

Stacey Chang joins us today to talk about design in medicine and how we can use design thinking as a tool to improve healthcare.

What happens when a medical complex young person turns 18, and then, suddenly, they make their own medical decisions rather than their parents? How does one navigate the sometimes very thorny issues of sexual health and fertility? What about insurance issues?

Asaf Bitton MD, MPH is our guest this week on a reprise episode. Asaf, newly appointed Executive Director of Ariadne Labs talks with us about what he sees as crucial steps in improving primary care in the US and what we can learn from primary care systems globally, particularly drawing on a recent healthcare system … Re-imagining primary care in the US & what we can learn from Costa Rica with Asaf Bitton Read More »

In this reprise episode, Michelle Kondo and Eugenia South join us to talk about their research looking at how neighborhood contexts impact health and safety in urban environments, and their recent publication in JAMA Network Open looking at the relationship between neighborhood greening and mental health.

This week, we are joined by Allison Hess, VP of Health for the Steele Institute for Innovation at Geisinger to talk about Geisinger’s Fresh Food Farmacy, a program that provides food insecure patients with poorly controlled diabetes access to fresh healthy foods as part of a comprehensive diabetes care plan.