Hannah Decker, MD
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Surgery resident @UCSF, current @NCSP_UCSF via @EmoryMedicine, Bridgewater & @Dartmouth. Passionate about better delivery of care for the underserved.
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Loved this conversation with Mishka Terplan, Stefan, Saul J Weiner (and have loved every episode of On Becoming a Healer I've listened to so far!). It is our obligation as physicians to recognize and avoid getting co-opted into punitive systems.
Drug testing at the time of birth is often followed by reporting positive results to Child Protective Services
Are physicians being co-opted?
New podcast from *On Becoming a Healer* with Dr Mishka Terplan, OB/G, FASAM
pod.link/healer/episode…
Mishka Terplan Saul J Weiner
‼️Dr. Jessica Santos-Parker Jessica Santos-Parker, MD PhD, a dedicated General Surgery resident with a passion for thoracic surgery and healthcare equity, has been selected to join UC San Francisco's prestigious National Clinician Scholars Program National CSP for the 2024 cohort👏👏
LIVE NOW: Margot Kushel MD delivers our this year's Dunlop Lecture, The Toxic Problem of Poverty + Housing Costs
gsd.harvard.edu/event/margot-k…
“Unhoused #veterans who gained housing in the year after diagnosis had better outcomes than people who remained unhoused.” says ,” says Dr. Hannah Decker Hannah Decker, MD.
Great article on recent research by Decker et al on The Cancer Letter.
cancerletter.com/health-equity/…
Stanford researchers & others found unhoused veterans & veterans who lost their housing had poorer survival after #LungCancer & #ColorectalCancer diagnosis compared with those who were continuously housed. bit.ly/437zN83 #HousingAndHealth Ashley Titan
Many conditions treated by surgeons first require primary care screening and referral.
Dr. Sara Schaefer this week in Health Affairs connects primary care shortages to higher rates of emergency surgery for conditions that should be treated electively
healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.13…
Cancer outcomes for #homelessveterans are worse than for housed #veterans . But, gaining housing after diagnosis can help. Dr. Hannah Decker (Hannah Decker, MD) joins Jeff Snyder of The Broadcast Retirement Network to discuss.
youtu.be/vaSk3ONZchs?si…
#BRNAM #healthequity #cancer