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SCOR Investment Partners gets ILS allocation from City of Zurich pension

By Angelica | Jan 25, 2021 | Comments Off on SCOR Investment Partners gets ILS allocation from City of Zurich pension

SCOR Investment Partners, , the asset management company of the global reinsurance group SCOR, won a new investment mandate from the roughly $20 billion City of Zurich Pension Fund in recent weeks. The City of Zurich Pension Fund is one of the largest in Switzerland and operates pensions and other insurance benefits for all employees…

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Best of Artemis, week ending 24th January 2021

By Angelica | Jan 25, 2021 | Comments Off on Best of Artemis, week ending 24th January 2021

Here are the ten most popular news articles, week ending 24th January 2021, covering catastrophe bonds, ILS, reinsurance capital and related risk transfer topics. To ensure you never miss a thing subscribe to the weekly Artemis email newsletter updates or get our email alerts for every article we publish. Ten most read articles on Artemis.bm,…

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Lessons learned from a combat doctor in Iraq [PODCAST]

By Angelica | Jan 25, 2021 | Comments Off on Lessons learned from a combat doctor in Iraq [PODCAST]

“My own dream-induced pain started at the same time this child was mowed down. Then and there is when and where my faith in God died because God, the higher power, had allowed this unspeakable nightmare to happen. My hope for the future evaporated, all while helplessness chewed through my guts From Left to Right.…

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Physicians are an underserved population about their own mental health care

By Angelica | Jan 24, 2021 | Comments Off on Physicians are an underserved population about their own mental health care

COVID-19 has shed light on a pre-existing condition in medicine – our health care system has failed to tend to its workforce’s well-being. While generally privileged, physicians are an underserved population about their own mental health care. Numerous articles and countless interviews have focused on the pandemic’s deleterious impact on physicians’ mental health and well-being.…

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An inability to emotionally deal with failure

By Angelica | Jan 24, 2021 | Comments Off on An inability to emotionally deal with failure

General Douglas McArthur said: “However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and give his life for his country, is the noblest development of mankind.” The soldier is trained to kill, and they learn to kill well, they have endured great physical and psychologic trauma and horror…

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Immigrant children struggle with COVID-induced schooling modifications

By Angelica | Jan 24, 2021 | Comments Off on Immigrant children struggle with COVID-induced schooling modifications

Our clinic is a place rich in diversity and culture. Many of our patients are recent immigrants, coming from over 50 different countries. While they bring a zest for opportunities living within the United States, they often face many barriers in seizing them. Most notably, the language barrier is very present and one that has…

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Trauma is ever-present in the practice of medicine

By Angelica | Jan 24, 2021 | Comments Off on Trauma is ever-present in the practice of medicine

Some forms of trauma are obvious: natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, fires, being physically assaulted, wrongfully terminated, becoming suddenly very ill. Trauma is divided into so-called big T and little t experiences, but the distinction is misleading. While physical assault (big T trauma) can lead to serious sequelae such as loss of a sense of…

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Dealing with a bad boss: lessons from Dr. Fauci

By Angelica | Jan 24, 2021 | Comments Off on Dealing with a bad boss: lessons from Dr. Fauci

More and more, we physicians have “bosses,” and, as in any field, the quality of those bosses varies widely. When the White House Coronavirus Task Force was unveiled in the spring, with the president and two of the nation’s leading infectious disease physicians, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, standing shoulder to shoulder around…

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How health care organizations can tackle racism in patient care [PODCAST]

By Angelica | Jan 24, 2021 | Comments Off on How health care organizations can tackle racism in patient care [PODCAST]

“The new American Medical Association policy recognizing racism as a public health threat and providing an anti-racist approach to equitable care will have no effectiveness unless health care organizations get their own houses in order and actively do anti-racism work in their own institutions. Although I’m not a health care provider, as a health care…

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Black physicians are tired of paying the minority tax

By Angelica | Jan 23, 2021 | Comments Off on Black physicians are tired of paying the minority tax

Here’s a controversial phrase for a doctor to say that needs to be normalized: “I am tired.” As a physician, working oneself to exhaustion for our patients is often seen as a sign of strength and even heroic.  As a rare Black male in medicine in the midst of a pandemic that is ravaging patients…

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