Arjun K. Venkatesh

Jul 5, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Robert J. Trent |Alexander T. Janke |Arjun K. Venkatesh |Kenzie Whitcomb

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Join us for an insightful discussion with Moksha Patel, an internal medicine physician, as we explore the fascinating parallels between clinical reasoning and photography. Moksha shares how principles like focus, zoom, and flash in photography can enhance medical practice, offering unique perspectives on diagnosis, patient care, and maintaining the human connection amidst the demands of modern medicine.

Aug 23, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Samuel Shem |Alexander T. Janke |Arjun K. Venkatesh |Austin Perlmutter

An excerpt from Our Hospital. Kush Kare Hospital in Columbia, New York, was the flagship of Kush Kare Private Equity Inc., a for-profit chain of hospitals across America. A for-profit that was listed on a lot of lucrative trading routes. Clearly its workings were murky—maybe not equity at all. A clever goulash of nonprofit and big-time profit. With the rise of COVID, the hospital was a zoo: frazzled doctors, nurses, techs, labs, cleaners.

Feb 23, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Arjun K. Venkatesh |Alexander T. Janke |Ryan Koski-Vacirca |Craig Rothenberg

Abstract Background The delivery and financing of health care services were altered in unprecedented ways by COVID-19 and subsequent policy responses. We estimated reimbursement losses to emergency physicians in 2020 compared to 2019 related to shifting acute care utilization during COVID-19. Methods This was an observational analysis of the Clinical Emergency Department Registry (CEDR) and the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS).