Sierra Sacramento Valley Medicine Magazine
Serving the counties of El Dorado, Sacramento, and Yolo!
Sierra Sacramento Valley Medicine Magazine
Serving the counties of El Dorado, Sacramento, and Yolo!
Selections From This Issue
One Big Beautiful Disaster
To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
Adam Dougherty, MD, MPH takes us inside the emergency department to show why the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” is anything but. He outlines how the law will strip millions of coverage, devastate California’s healthcare system, and push physicians and hospitals past breaking. This is not abstract policy - it’s the patients on hallway beds, the moral distress of providers, and the preventable suffering that awaits unless we act.
To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
Kevin Walsh, MD explores the promises and perils of artificial intelligence in medicine, from the thrilling Star Trek–like vision of AI revolutionizing healthcare, to the sobering risks of hallucinations, artificial intimacy, eroded critical thinking, and diminished patient trust. With stories, research, and hard questions, he challenges us to consider not just what AI can do for us, but how it will change us, clinicians and patients alike.
An Atypical Book Review
To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
An Atypical Book Review
Caroline Giroux, MD usually doesn't like book reviews, but this isn’t one. It’s a deeply personal reflection on a memoir by first-time author Gabriel Nadeau, her cousin. His story of survival, resilience, and self-acceptance moved me so profoundly that she couldn’t put the book down. This piece became less about critique and more about sharing the awe, heartbreak, and inspiration she felt while stepping into Gabriel’s world.
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