{"id":627746,"date":"2023-04-10T18:49:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T23:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/10\/they-are-the-gatekeepers-in-patient-care-what-we-heard-this-week\/"},"modified":"2023-04-10T18:49:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T23:49:50","slug":"they-are-the-gatekeepers-in-patient-care-what-we-heard-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/10\/they-are-the-gatekeepers-in-patient-care-what-we-heard-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They Are the Gatekeepers in Patient Care&#8217;: What We Heard This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<nav>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\" tabindex=\"15.1\" itemprop=\"articleSection\">Opinion<\/a><br \/>\n      <span>><\/span><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/what-we-heard\" tabindex=\"15.2\">What We Heard This Week<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/nav>\n<h2>\u2014 Quotable quotes heard by <em>MedPage Today<\/em>&#8216;s reporters<\/h2>\n<p>\n            by <span itemprop=\"author\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><br \/>\n            <span itemprop=\"name\">MedPage  Today Staff<\/span><br \/>\n         <\/span><br \/>\n            <span itemprop=\"contributing\"><\/span><br \/>\n                    <span itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"April 9, 2023\"><br \/>\n          April 9, 2023<br \/>\n        <\/span>\n          <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"js-main-content-region\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/articleBody\" itemid=\"#main-content-region\">\n<p>&#8220;They are the gatekeepers in patient care.&#8221;  &#8212;  Linda Murphy, president of revenue cycle solutions at AMN Healthcare, on the influence doctors have over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/features\/103863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commercial health insurer claims<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Frankly, he wasn&#8217;t diagnosed earlier in his life because he wasn&#8217;t white.&#8221;  &#8212;  Jennifer Taylor-Cousar, MD, of National Jewish Health in Denver, on the difficult journey of a 34-year-old South Asian patient to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/podcasts\/anamnesis\/103906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finally get a diagnosis<\/a>. Hear more cases like this on the latest installment <em>MedPage<\/em>&#8216;s Anamnesis podcast, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/podcasts\/anamnesis\/103908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mysteries: Cracking the Complex Case<\/a>.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How many of the assault weapon injuries that we see in the emergency department, or that result in deaths at the scene, are the result of defensive efforts?&#8221;  &#8212;  Christopher Colwell, MD, of Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/emergencymedicine\/emergencymedicine\/103871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the rise in firearm deaths<\/a> in the past two decades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will save a lot of time.&#8221;  &#8212;  Yee Hui Yeo, MD, of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/features\/103879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">benefits of ChatGPT<\/a> to help field patient questions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we found is that it&#8217;s virtually impossible to look at any hospital website in the country without exposing yourself to some tracking.&#8221;  &#8212;  Matthew McCoy, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania, after finding nearly all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/features\/103843\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. hospital website home pages<\/a> had at least one third-party data transfer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We really are just asking for a seat at the table.&#8221;  &#8212;  Sascha Murillo, MD, a third-year internal medicine resident at Mass General Brigham in Boston, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/features\/103865\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seeking unionization<\/a> despite a recent 10% salary increase.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems that introduction of exogenous estrogens after a long pause is not a great idea.&#8221;  &#8212;  Rachel Buckley, PhD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, discussing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/neurology\/alzheimersdisease\/103844\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hormone therapy and higher regional tau<\/a> in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I&#8217;m a little worried about myself is general neurodevelopment and not just autism.&#8221;  &#8212;  Beate Ritz, MD, PhD, of the University of California Los Angeles, about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/pediatrics\/autism\/103840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lithium levels in drinking water<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What this study shows is that you need good sleep to have good mental health, period.&#8221;  &#8212;  Karen Pierce, MD, of Northwestern University&#8217;s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, about the connection between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/psychiatry\/sleepdisorders\/103876\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poor sleep and worse mental health<\/a> among kids and adolescents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision of when to bring the patient in for in-person care really is a clinical decision that should be made by the clinician.&#8221;  &#8212;  Brian Hurley, MD, MBA, president-elect of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/practicemanagement\/telehealth\/103882\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DEA&#8217;s proposed telemedicine rule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/what-we-heard\/103917\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Samatha Pecora<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion &gt; What We Heard This Week \u2014 Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today&#8217;s reporters by MedPage Today Staff April 9, 2023 &#8220;They are the gatekeepers in patient care.&#8221; &#8212; Linda Murphy, president of revenue cycle solutions at AMN Healthcare, on the influence doctors have over commercial health insurer claims. &#8220;Frankly, he wasn&#8217;t diagnosed earlier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":627747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93016,3655],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-627746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gatekeepers","8":"category-patient"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}