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How Health Policy Affects People's Lives: Dr Patricia Salber Interviews Sarah Varney
October 21st 2017As the senior national correspondent at Kaiser Health News, Sarah Varney covers health policy, specifically looking at federal law and how it rolls out in states and local jurisdictions. During her conversation with Patricia Salber, MD, MBA, of The Doctor Weighs In, she explained how her articles are shaped by the time she spends in the field talking to people affected by the policy decisions made in Washington, DC, or state capitals.
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Nurses Answer the Call to Assist in Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts
September 4th 2017In New Jersey, the call went out to find volunteer nurses willing to travel down to Texas to help with relief efforts and assist those nurses who were tired and overworked in the flood zone, and 50 nurses answered the call within a few days.
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Fixing the US Healthcare System: Dr Patricia Salber Interviews Dr Robert Pearl
July 18th 2017In his new book, Mistreated: Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care-and Why We're Usually Wrong, Robert Pearl, MD, the former CEO of Kaiser Permanente discusses the cost of healthcare in the United States relative to outcomes and ways to fix the system.
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Scoring the Senate Healthcare Bill: Dr Patricia Salber Interviews Nathan Bays
June 26th 2017Shortly before the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its score for the Senate healthcare bill, Patricia Salber, MD, MBA, of The Doctor Weighs In, and Nathan Bays, managing director at Cain Brothers, a healthcare investment bank, and policy advisor to The Health Management Academy, discussed how the Senate bill stands up to the House bill and speculation about how the CBO might score the bill.
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Combating the Opioid Epidemic With Data Analytics: Mandi Bishop Interviews Dr Michael Petersen
June 23rd 2017Michael Petersen, MD, of Accenture Health, discusses the opioid epidemic and how data analytics can be used to break down the silos in healthcare to better care for people addicted to opioids and to prevent further spread of the epidemic.
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