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Laura Landro

@lauraalandro

Former Wall Street Journal reporter/editor, now occasional contributor on medicine/health care. Author, “Survivor: Taking Control of Your Fight Against Cancer

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At the The Wall Street Journal, we stand with our colleague Evan Gershkovich on World Press Freedom Day today—and everyday. Journalism is not a crime. And we seek his immediate release. #IStandWithEvan #FreeEvan

At the <a href="/WSJ/">The Wall Street Journal</a>, we stand with our colleague <a href="/evangershkovich/">Evan Gershkovich</a> on World Press Freedom Day today—and everyday. Journalism is not a crime. And we seek his immediate release. 
#IStandWithEvan #FreeEvan
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How was your latest hospital stay? After a plunge in patient satisfaction ratings during #Covid hospitals are fighting to gain back consumer confidence. My latest story for The Wall Street Journal wsj.com/articles/url-h…

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Check out today’s@WSJ Customer Experience Report including the best ways to deal with angry customers, the best time to ask customers for a review- and my story on hospitals strategies to recover from a plunge in patient satisfaction ratings during Covid wsj.com/news/collectio…

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A look at how AI in health care can introduce a whole new level of error and omission to medical records - and why we need humans to clean it up and correct mistakes. Joseph Walker does a deep dive into DeepScribe wsj.com/articles/at-st… via The Wall Street Journal

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My story in today’s The Wall Street Journal: AI is expected to radically improve healthcare diagnoses. But researchers are learning there are limits. And ChatGPT isn’t going to replace your doctor anytime soon. #AI #ChatGPT wsj.com/tech/ai/artifi… via The Wall Street Journal

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My latest for The Wall Street Journal : for millions of adults suffering from chronic lower-back pain, new research-driven approaches to treatment aim to provide relief- and avoid opioid use and abuse wsj.com/health/healthc… via The Wall Street Journal

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Today’s The Wall Street Journal Encore section -a more apt title than ‘retirement’, which we rarely fully do - has some great stories on finding love after 60, why we prefer to be called something groovier than grandma, and my piece on new ways to treat chronic back pain! wsj.com/news/collectio…

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My story for The Wall Street Journal on the frustrations of trying to score a doctors appointment and get timely care and follow-up amid a mounting shortage of physicians- and some of the solutions that could help make it better for patients wsj.com/health/wellnes… via The Wall Street Journal

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Another wide ranging health and medicine report from The Wall Street Journal includes stories on new blood thinners to prevent clots, the toll of dementia, high impact marriage counseling- and my story on why it’s so frustrating to see doctor and new strategies to help wsj.com/news/collectio…

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Must read: a beautiful family memoir interwoven with a deep dive into #CancerResearch on genetic origins in The Wall Street Journal by Lawrence Ingrassia, adapted from his forthcoming book A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed A Deadly Medical Mystery. bit.ly/3wlvFp3

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Mayo Clinic’s Cancer Care Beyond Walls program is transforming care delivery for cancer patients, replicating hospital-quality care from the home to improve quality of life and pave the way for more flexible care options for patients at scale: mayocl.in/3x5R2L7

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Private equity’s push into health care has spawned a “harmful arms race that has helped drive prices increasingly higher without improving care” per a 3-part ⁦The Wall Street Journal⁩ Heard on the Street series; pain for both docs and patients as lawmakers zero in. wsj.com/health/healthc…

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A deep dive by ⁦The Wall Street Journal⁩ : how Medicare Advantage drives up taxpayer costs by adding diagnoses for which patients received no treatment, or that contradicted their doctors’ views..sometimes using #AI to review charts then send nurses to patient homes wsj.com/health/healthc…

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Longevity may be a hot topic, but Amy Dockser Marcus has a reality check: Better health has extended life expectancy, but researchers believe we might be reaching the bounds of our biology. “It seems this is the end.” wsj.com/health/wellnes…

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My latest for The Wall Street Journal on why it’s still so hard for patients to navigate their electronic medical records - even with all those portals and apps. Interoperability will offer some answers …in the meantime, some practical tips wsj.com/health/healthc…

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Kudos to longtime personal finance columnist Jonathan Clements, who, facing a terminal cancer diagnosis, gets his affairs in order - and offers practical advice for planning ahead even if you feel like you are going to live forever. wsj.com/personal-finan…

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My latest story for The Wall Street Journal on how #AI and genetic science are ushering in a new era in blood testing to detect and manage disease- earlier, faster and less invasively wsj.com/health/healthc…

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My story for The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything series about the growing use of #AI Scribes- as ambient listening technology makes more inroads in medicine with wsj.com/health/healthc…

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New #SoundPractice episode! A former @wsj “Informed Patient” columnist addresses ambient listening tech in healthcare: what it does, how it works, and why ethics matter. hubs.la/Q03wqs3_0 #HealthcareTech #DigitalHealth #AmbientAI #PhysicianLeadership #Podcast