Permanente Medicine in Action
Highlighting TPMG’s innovative specialty care, featuring renowned TPMG physicians, advanced technology, and compassionate patient care.
How to beat jet lag
In his regular column, Salvatore Iaquinta, MD, a head and neck surgeon at Kaiser Permanente in San Rafael, offers tips on how to overcome jet lag.
Facts About Fibroids
Inside KP -- August 7, 2017 Peter Heinlein, MD, chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Kaiser Permanente San Rafael Medical Center, sees a patient with a fibroid every day. Many women don’t even know they have one — often, there are no symptoms. But [...]
15 Ingredients Medical Doctors Always Add to Their Meals
Linda Shiue, MD, TPMG’s director of Culinary Medicine, who practices internal medicine at KP San Francisco Mission Bay, shares what foods physicians add to their meals to stay healthy.
A doctor answers your questions about surviving the heat wave
Dr. Jesus Rodriguez, from KP Fresno talks about heat wave related health problems, including heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
Honoring Physician Leaders
The 2017 Cecil Cutting Leadership honors Jake Roth, MD, Psychiatry, KP San Jose; and Dzung Trinh, MD, FACP, Geriatric Medicine, KP Fresno.
12 Things You Need To Know Before Starting PrEP\Prep for your sexual health.
Jonathan Volk, MD, MPH, physician and epidemiologist at KP’ San Francisco Medical Center, explains the benefits and risks of taking pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV/AIDs.
Devising Faster, Better Stroke Care
TPMG created new treatment protocols that reduce the lag time in treating strokes and improve a patient's function and recovery. Called Stroke EXPRESS, the protocols have been implemented throughout the region.
Why Bay Area health giants are turning over care to medical assistants
TPMG’s School of Allied Health Services in Richmond will start a new medical assistant training program. Dr. Phil Madvig, associate executive director at TPMG is quoted.
Medicine’s Minimalist Movement
Stephen Parodi, MD, TPMG associate executive director, details the success of our Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Program (ERAS), which reduces opioid use and provides other improvements to post-surgery treatment.