Medicine-Life Balance and Other News

Howie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare headlines, including generational shifts in doctors' approach to work, a promising vaccine for norovirus, the latest on the bird flu outbreak, and the struggles of corporate-backed primary care companies.  Links: Norovirus CDC: Norovirus "Bivalent norovirus mRNA vaccine elicits cellular and humoral responses protecting human enteroids from GII.4 infection"  "Doctors trial world's first mRNA vaccine against vomiting bug norovirus" "Who Didn't Get a Second Shingrix Shot? Implications for Multidose COVID-19 Vaccines" Work-Life Balance "Young Doctors Want Work-Life Balance. Older Doctors Say That's Not the Job." "State of Women in Medicine: History, Challenges, and the Benefits of a Diverse Workforce" Bird Flu "CDC Confirms Human H5 Bird Flu Case in Missouri" STAT: H5N1 Bird Flu Primary Care Goes Corporate  "Why Large Corporations Are Entering Primary Care" "Cigna Turns $739 Million Profit Despite $1 Billion Loss On VillageMD" Prescription for the Future: The Twelve Transformational Practices of Highly Effective Medical Organizations E. coli "E. coli Outbreak Linked to Onions Served at McDonald's" "How disease detectives' quick work traced deadly E. coli outbreak to McDonald's Quarter Pounders" CDC: Outbreaks of E. coli infections Elon Musk's Grok AI Platform "Elon Musk wants you to submit medical data to his AI chatbot" Learn more about the MBA for Executives program at Yale SOM. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.