Richard Plotzker

Dec 22, 2023 | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Richard Plotzker

The University of Pennsylvania’s president stepped down voluntarily, largely to generate shalom bayit, or peace in the house. Calls for her ouster had already begun. Some came from donors of influence. Some came from advocacy agencies. Some came from nobodies who never made a peep before, infuriated by pictures they saw of student or faculty protesters condoning or redirecting blame for what every person of Ivy League intellect should be able to pick out as a targeted ethnic massacre.

Dec 15, 2023 | richardplotzker.medium.com | Richard Plotzker

Social Media needs some personal restraint. For a lot of people it has become destructive, a time sink that bypasses more substantive achievements that people could have, myself among them. Yet its popularity, even when toxic or because of that toxic element, continues. It is alluring. Nobody really needs Adderall or Ritalin to pay attention, as attention is not needed. A Tweet requires conservation of words, which means you can read a lot of them in a short time.

Aug 6, 2023 | richardplotzker.medium.com | Richard Plotzker

Delaware by GPSHave not yet left my home state of Delaware, one of America's smallest, on this year's day trips. Its north-south dimension far exceeds its east-west dimension, but it only takes two hours to drive from the northern border where I live to the beach at the southeastern corner, which is what I did recently, a trans-state journey done about once a year for decades.

Jul 28, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Peter Ubel |Richard Plotzker

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes!We talk with Jordana Cohen, an internal medicine physician, about the importance of accurate blood pressure measurement. With the rise of telehealth and at-home monitoring, ensuring reliable readings is crucial. Jordana discusses concerns regarding device accuracy and introduces the U.S. Blood Pressure Validated Device Listing (VDL) as a solution. Discover how the VDL evaluates and lists clinically accurate devices.

May 15, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Richard Plotzker |Betty Rabinowitz |Amanda Xi |Ank Agarwal

One of the not often discussed challenges of our EHRs may be getting patients to the right medical resource at a time most suitable for their medical condition. Our electronic systems, whether automated by algorithm or assigned to a person given a protocol have become too separated from medical care itself. Our schedulers are no longer ourselves or our secretaries trained in the variability of patient needs, which can then be reflected in physician encounters.