Muthu Alagappan is an internal medicine physician and medical director, Notable Health.

After COVID-19, there’s no turning back from a digital clinical workforce

Physician
May 10, 2020

Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has challenged our health care industry in profound and irreversible ways, creating massive pressure that has exposed system-wide inefficiencies and inequalities. It has also fundamentally shifted the way first responders, health care providers, hospitals, health systems, and even the federal government are using digital health technologies.

The current pressure test that our industry, economy, and global community is withstanding has forced health organizations—both large and small—to rapidly adapt, …

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After COVID-19, there’s no turning back from a digital clinical workforce

Judges versus coaches in medical education

Education
October 4, 2018

I flash a smile as I look up from my notes. “Do it again,” I say, encouraged by his progress, “but this time start with the physical exam.” I am the internal medicine resident leading our “twilight” admitting team, and Vikram, a student on the first day of his medicine clerkship, sits across from me. It is his third time practicing the presentation of Ms. R, a 56-year-old woman with …

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Judges versus coaches in medical education

Dear intern: Some advice about your first year

Education
July 11, 2017

Dear intern,

It will be the best of times, and it will be the worst of times.

But what a special time this will be. It will be a time of learning the details and nuances of clinical medicine — the diagnostic features of sarcoidosis and the second, third and fourth line treatments for community-acquired pneumonia. You will learn how to learn, and you will forget what you learned, only to learn …

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Dear intern: Some advice about your first year