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2 weeks ago | 
kevinmd.com | Debra Shute |Tochi Iroku-Malize |Sterling Ransone |Steven Furr
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Palliative care physician and author Alen Voskanian discusses his article, “Discover the secrets to regaining joy in medicine,” based on an excerpt from his book. Drawing from his personal experience with burnout where he felt isolated and like a failure within the demanding medical industry, Alen strongly emphasizes that burnout is a common result of a broken health care system, not an individual failing.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
kevinmd.com | Robert Pearl |George Mathew |Steven Siegel |Tochi Iroku-Malize
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Brian Whorley, a health care executive, dives into the groundbreaking Medicare Prescription Payment Plan (MPPP), exploring its potential to revolutionize medication adherence and patient outcomes. With 54 million beneficiaries eligible, this initiative promises to alleviate cost barriers, reduce hospital readmissions, and save billions annually.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
aafp.org | Tochi Iroku-Malize
Sept. 3, 2024By Tochi Iroku-Malize, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., FAAFPAAFP Board ChairIt is fitting that September is Women in Medicine Month because women are going to make history this month at the AAFP Congress of Delegates in Phoenix. When a new Board is seated Sept. 25 after elections during COD, women will occupy 11 of the 17 positions on the AAFP Board of Directors. How?
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
usnews.com | Michelle Andrews |Tochi Iroku-Malize
By Michelle Andrews | KFF Health NewsFor Diana Perez, a medical resident at the Family Health Center of Harlem, the handwritten thank-you note she received from a patient is all the evidence she needs that she has chosen the right training path.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
aafp.org | Tochi Iroku-Malize
April 22, 2024By Tochi Iroku-Malize, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., FAAFPAAFP Board ChairWhether it’s a bread-and-butter clinical topic like vaccinations or a subject that connects to health care in ways that are less obvious to lay people, family physicians are ethically bound to address issues that impact the people we care for. That includes taking every opportunity to talk to legislators and regulators about those issues and what they can do to help.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
healio.com | Tochi Iroku-Malize
You've successfully added Practice Management in Primary Care 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]. From childhood, I always knew I would go into medicine. My dad was a surgeon and my mom was a nurse.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
aafp.org | Tochi Iroku-Malize
Feb. 1, 2024By Tochi Iroku-Malize, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., FAAFPAAFP Board ChairWhen did I know I wanted to be a doctor? When a teacher told me I couldn’t. I was in grade school. We had just moved from Brooklyn to the New Jersey suburbs and I was the only Black child in my class. One day, we were asked to fill out a form asking what we wanted to be as adults. My classmates and teacher didn’t know that my parents were a surgeon and nurse-midwife. Besides, I was a self-starter, a go-getter.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
aafp.org | Tochi Iroku-Malize
Sept. 12, 2023By Tochi Iroku-Malize, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A. AAFP PresidentFacts may speak for themselves, but static easily drowns them out — especially when the truth is on your side. That’s why the AAFP is speaking out loudly about Medicare add-on Code G2211, and why your voice is needed, too.
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Aug 18, 2023 | 
seattletimes.com | Tochi Iroku-Malize
Our world’s history is steeped in immunization efforts, according to the World Health Organization. In the 16th century, people attempted to get ahead of smallpox by exposing healthy people to the disease. In the 1800s, Louis Pasteur created a vaccine to fight cholera and other diseases in animals. In 1954, Jonas Salk changed the world with the development and mass distribution of the polio vaccine. In December 2020, the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were administered.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
healio.com | Emma Bascom |Tochi Iroku-Malize |Carol L. DiBerardino
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Key takeaways: The proposed 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule includes a $1.14 reduction in the 2024 conversion factor.
