Isaac O. Opole

1 month ago | immattersacp.org | Gianna Melillo |Charlotte Huff |Isaac O. Opole |ACP Internist

The assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024 sent shock waves across the country and through the health care industry. The subsequent public outpouring of anger and frustration, vitriol, and negative commentary about Mr. Thompson's employer specifically and the health insurance industry in general was unprecedented but not surprising. It once again reminded us that there is something terribly wrong with the business of ensuring the health of the American people.

2 months ago | healio.com | Emma Bascom |Isaac O. Opole |Carol L. DiBerardino

You've successfully added to your alerts. You will receive an email when new content is published. Click Here to Manage Email Alerts We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Key takeaways: The ACP’s president published a letter to the presidential transition team, outlining the organization’s priorities. Those include strengthening primary care and patients’ access to it.

Jan 14, 2025 | acpjournals.org | Isaac O. Opole

Note from Editor in Chief: Annals of Internal Medicine is publishing a letter from the American College of Physicians' leadership to the U.S. Presidential transition team. The letter identifies several issues that ACP believes are priorities to promote the health of Americans and offers to make the organization available to assist the administration in addressing these areas.

Nov 1, 2024 | immattersacp.org | Charlotte Huff |Gianna Melillo |Isaac O. Opole |ACP Internist

A friend and colleague recently described their trouble finding a new primary care physician after their physician retired from practice. My friend is an experienced and well-connected internal medicine physician who “knows people and is known by people” in the field and who really should not have had any trouble picking up the phone and getting an immediate appointment.

Oct 1, 2024 | immattersacp.org | Gianna Melillo |Janet Colwell |Isaac O. Opole |ACP Internist

Our health care system may be set to experience Yogi Berra's “déjà vu all over again.” In the late 19th century, there was increasing public mistrust of the medical profession, arising from concerns about a chaotic and often dangerous environment, with poorly trained physicians practicing medicine. Many of these physicians graduated from largely unregulated for-profit medical schools with minimal admission standards, inconsistent and nonstandardized curricula, and limited faculty.