Marc Ringel, MD - Blog

Bird Flu (Chicago Life Version)

Bird influenza does not pose a big risk to humans today. But keep an eye on it.

November 16, 2024

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Kenya (and a little London) Diary

I visited Kenya in January and February of 2024, staying in London for a couple of days on the way there. When the travel agent asked me what kind of trip I desired I told her I wanted to get to know Kenya and its people as well as I could in the three weeks or so I would be there. As you’ll see in the travel journal I wrote and the pictures I took, the resulting trip more than met my expectations. It was richer than words or pictures can describe. Nevertheless, here’s an attempt to share my experience.

April 6, 2024

Digital Healing

Digital Respiratory Healthcare: Leave No Community Behind: The Digital Divide

Marc Ringel co-wrote a chapter in Digital Respiratory Healthcare, a book published in 2023 by the European Respiratory Society. The chapter, "Leave no Community Behind,” is about engaging community members in planning and implementing respiratory healthcare services. Marc’s contribution drew on his experience working as a physician researcher with community groups in rural Colorado.

December 29, 2023

Chicago Life

Fritzi Engelstein Changed My Life (Chicago Life Version)

The free clinic movement, including Fritzi Engelstein Free People’s Health Center in Chicago, where Marc volunteered as a medical student, changed some lives, especially of the people who worked there. Thank you to Mary Driscoll, who supplied some history as well as the image. And one random thing to note in the online version, the article on the facing page is by Marc’s first cousin, Cory Franklin.

December 15, 2023

Chicago Life

Pain (Chicago Life Version)

There is plenty of blame to go around for the horrible narcotic epidemic afflicting America today. Dr. Ringel discusses how, as a frontline doctor, he came to contribute to the problem.

October 10, 2023

Chicago Life

Intelligence in Healthcare: Artificial and Not (Chicago Life Version)

Whether artificial intelligence makes something better or worse depends, as it does for any tool, on how it’s used. The potential for intelligently deployed AI to improve health is enormous. But it is not about to replace human beings.

July 15, 2023

Chicago Life

How to Improve Medical Practice (Chicago Life Version)

This piece, How to Improve Medical Practice (Hint: It's not with Lectures), appeared on page 30 of the Spring 2023 issue of Chicago Life Magazine. Well-educated doctors are absolutely critical but not nearly sufficient to achieve excellent patient care. It takes an empowered team, supported by carefully designed, smoothly functioning systems, to consistently deliver the best medicine has to offer.

May 15, 2023

Covid-19

Common Questions and Concerns about the Covid-19 Vaccine

How does it work? ‍Is it safe? ‍Why is it so important? To answer these questions CAHEC presents a short video.

February 23, 2021

Covid-19

Telemedicine and COVID-19

Telemedicine, the pandemic and the barriers in-between.

April 15, 2020

Medicine

Technology and Medicine

An overview on technological advancements in the medical field.

May 5, 2020

Medicine

Telemedicine: The Radio Doctor

A discussion pertaining to telemedicine and the healthcare industry.

December 4, 2019

Review

December 2020 Article Reviews

Reviews of 2020 articles published for loyal readers.

December 30, 2020

Digital Healing

What Scares Me

Has modern medicine departed from caring for people?

January 30, 2020

Digital Healing

It’s Always about the People

Medicine is for the people.

January 12, 2020

Digital Healing

Consumer-Driven Telemedicine

These days it’s healthcare administrators, much more than doctors, who decide what is to be done in healthcare.

December 23, 2019

Digital Healing

What Is Telehealth?

A precursory look at the forefront of the Telehealth movement.

December 10, 2019

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Marc Ringel, MD - Blog

Bird Flu (Chicago Life Version)

Kenya (and a little London) Diary

Digital Respiratory Healthcare: Leave No Community Behind: The Digital Divide

Fritzi Engelstein Changed My Life (Chicago Life Version)

Pain (Chicago Life Version)

Intelligence in Healthcare: Artificial and Not (Chicago Life Version)

How to Improve Medical Practice (Chicago Life Version)

Common Questions and Concerns about the Covid-19 Vaccine

Telemedicine and COVID-19

Technology and Medicine

Telemedicine: The Radio Doctor

December 2020 Article Reviews

What Scares Me

It’s Always about the People

Consumer-Driven Telemedicine

What Is Telehealth?

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