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Opinion: How the restaurant drama ‘The Bear’ mirrors working in a hospital

STAT

I believe it can also be seen as a characterization of work in a hospital, in which future physicians are simultaneously gaining remarkable skills and enduring career-altering abuse. For my new book, “Progress Notes,” I spent a couple years observing seven medical students in an experimental curriculum.

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Opinion: STAT+: The travel industry offers hospitals a warning about MyChart

STAT

By offering travelers the ability to compare prices and book accommodations from thousands of options, OTAs brought convenience, transparency, and lower costs. Today, over half of hotel bookings flow through OTAs, leaving hotels with slimmer margins and less control over their customer relationships.

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STAT+: More hospital and outpatient visits expected to persist through fall and winter

STAT

Health care providers and health insurance companies are closing the books on their third quarters, and one major question continues to hang over them: How much care is everyone actually getting, now that Covid-19 isn’t scaring so many away from doctors and hospitals?

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PulmCrit – Introducing the IBPH (Internet Book of Hospital Pulmonology)

EMCrit Project

In many countries, pulmonary and critical care are commonly bundled together. Consequently, a single person will often be responsible for both inpatient ICU management as well as inpatient pulmonary consultation. Honestly, I have some doubts about whether this is an ideal system.

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Is the future of AI in health care just a lot of hype?

STAT

student Kapoor to publish the book “ AI Snake Oil ,” which came out Sep. While the book encourages skepticism about many AI claims, the pair consider themselves cautiously optimistic about the future of the technology — including as it pertains to health care. Now he’s teamed up with his Ph.D.

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STAT+: Here’s who’s profiting the most in health care

STAT

“It’s really easy to move money around inside the books of a vertically integrated organization,” said Karen Van Nuys, a senior fellow at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. But don’t take their numbers as gospel, experts warned.

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Episode 804: Faster Amiodarone is Better For Survival in Shock-Refractory Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Pharmacy Joe

In this episode, I’ll discuss an article about timing of amiodarone for out-of-hospital, shock-refractory cardiac arrest. In the early group, patients who received amiodarone has statistically signficantly higher rates of survival to hospital admission, survival to discharge, and functional survival when compared to placebo.

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