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Ron M. Aryel is a pediatrician.

How a doctor with cerebral palsy defied the odds and transformed health care

Ron M. Aryel, MD, MBA
Physician
September 10, 2024

About midway through my pediatric residency program at a well-known children’s hospital on the East Coast in the mid-1990s, I found out what was wrong with me.

I told the chief of the pediatric emergency department, a Jewish woman, that I had finally learned the name of a device after I had patients use it many times. I knew what it was for, but I hadn’t learned its name. It was …

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How a doctor with cerebral palsy defied the odds and transformed health care

EMRs and insurance: a pediatrician’s success story

Ron M. Aryel, MD, MBA
Physician
April 10, 2024

I am a pediatrician who trained in a residency program that taught us insurance companies were evil entities intent on profits over patient care. As ICD codes and CPT codes expanded, my colleagues complained that these were ways insurers could deny care and keep them from making a living. When electronic medical records (EMR) entered the scene, many doctors complained again about the tyranny of spending all their time typing …

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EMRs and insurance: a pediatrician’s success story

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