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What I learned at the ATP Course Spring 2011

[An email to my fellow classmates at the Advanced Training Program in Healthcare Quality and Delivery run by Brent James, MD at the Intermountain Healthcare Institute for Quality Improvement.] I hope...

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What I Learned at the ATP Reunion Conference Feb 2012

Hi all, happy valentine’s day!  I hope you’re all doing well.  It was fun to meet up with some of our class for the reunion conference.  While this conference was not the life-altering event our class...

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Genetic Testing

“If you want CVS, you’ll have to decide within the next three days,” the genetic counselor told us. My husband and I were sitting in the upscale office of the maternal fetal medicine (MFM) practice in...

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Slow Medicine

Time heals all wounds, they say, or, in medicine, if not all, then many.  But with our improved efficiency and throughput of patients, we fail to allow this most magical treatment to work.  The pace...

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Judging by the Source

“Mom, who made the first people?” he asks me sweetly. It is already nine o’clock and well past his bedtime. Blah, blah, blah, I stumble a bit then build up to “people came from monkeys.” “Nah,” he says...

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Evidence-Free Pregnancy Advice

I know why the hoopla around Emily Oster‘s new book, Expecting Better, bothers me, it’s because she hasn’t let you in on obstetrics’ big bad secret… and here it is…. from a pulmonologist. What Ms....

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What I Learned at the ATP Reunion Conference February 2014

I. Capitation is coming Although Brent was careful to stress that despite this being gospel among those who “have drunk the kool-aid” it is not universally accepted. Still, the alternative narrative is...

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A New Therapy for Asthma

I first met Carol* (name and identifying details have been changed) when she came to my clinic after a severe asthma attack had sent her to the Intensive Care Unit.  After a few days, she had been...

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A play in 3 acts’; Weighing the Risks vs. Benefits of Research

Act I. Can women intubate? Two South Korean authors asked whether physician gender has a significant impact on intubation success, and found that “Female physicians are not inferior to male physicians...

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