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1 month ago | 
kevinmd.com | Harry W. Severance |G. Richard Olds |Michele Luckenbaugh |Peggy A. Rothbaum
I was recently asked what I thought were some of the biggest evolving obstacles to physicians and health care in 2024 and beyond. My answer:Health care has become America’s most dangerous profession due to workplace violence, with health care workers now being five times more likely to be assaulted “on the job” than in any other type of workplace in this country. This is one of the most critical obstacles that must be immediately addressed.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | Courtney Markham-Abedi |Lynn Marie Morski |Stephen Foley |Harry W. Severance
It’s capitalism, it’s greed, it’s the hospitals, it’s all those things, but for me, it’s sadness, it’s loss, it’s crying myself to sleep. Lest I sound ungrateful, I am appreciative of the income and career it has afforded me. I am not the victim but also not the perpetrator. In reality, we are all both at one time or another. It’s the hushed calls to let me know a dear patient has passed.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Harry W. Severance |G. Richard Olds |Curtis G. Graham |Sheila Nazarian
It was recently reported that barely 10 percent of U.S. doctors work in rural health care. That number is continuing to shrink, while over 20 percent of the U.S. population lives in rural areas, and more than 80 percent of rural Americans are considered medically underserved. There are many reasons why doctors, mid-levels, and other health care workers are avoiding rural practice opportunities.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
msn.com | Harry W. Severance
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Jan 14, 2024 | 
acepnow.com | Harry W. Severance
The wave of increasing hospital closures and service line cutbacks continues to sweep the United States. A recent article documents 56 additional U.S. hospitals that are closing clinical departments or ending or reducing services.
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Jan 7, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Harry W. Severance |Marlene Harris-Taylor |George Mathew |Steven Siegel
Violence and assaults against health care workers are now reported at an all-time high. While health care workers comprise just 13% of the U.S. workforce, they experience 60% of all workplace assaults. Health care has been declared America’s most dangerous profession due to workplace violence.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | Emily Watters |Jessica Willett |Steven G. Duncan |Harry W. Severance
The fentanyl crisis represents a grave and lethal epidemic, marked by the illicit consumption of powerful synthetic opioids, resulting in a staggering increase in fatal overdose cases. Physician Emily Watters offers her unique insights on this critical issue through a captivating comic format (click to enlarge): Emily Watters is a psychiatrist and can be reached at The Cartoon Shrink.
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Jul 14, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | Arthur Lazarus |Harry W. Severance |Carmen Kavali |Kenneth W Lin
Most of the racially debated issues these days can be summed up by the terms “critical race theory” and “wokeism” – terms that have become the defining issues of our time even though half the people can’t explain them and the other half use them for political gain to dictate how history is taught, stripping it of any mention of slavery, racism, and LGBTQ+ people.
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Jun 11, 2023 | 
blogarama.com | Harry W. Severance
Harry Severance, MD, is a professor of medicine and an advisor on the Healthcare workplace. I recently had a conversation with a self-described early-career, mid-level hospital administrator/manager. This person — who agreed to the interview on the condition of anonymity — reported that in a prior life she was a registered nurse, but moved into Management for a variety of reasons, including less work stress, a better schedule, and a potentially better financial future.
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Jun 9, 2023 | 
kevinmd.com | Harry W. Severance |Paige Budde |Stephen Wood
A recent Medpage Today article reviews a research article published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Nidhi Subbaraman, in a topic-related Wall Street Journal article, also reviews this JAMA article and several pilot AI doctor response programs currently undergoing clinical testing. Both of these reviews indicate that AI-created responses to patient-driven online questions posed to doctors are viewed more favorably (by the patients) and rated as having greater empathy than the doctor’s responses.
