Stan, Clarence, and Barry chat with Dr. Miguel Ruiz about health disparities.Dr. Miguel Ruiz is an internal medicine and palliative care specialist who has practiced in Minnesota for over twenty-five years. After working as an internist at the West Side Community Health Services/La Clinica serving Latinx and other diverse communities, he transitioned his practice to Regions Hospital where he worked as a hospital medicine physician and a palliative care specialist. Dr. Ruiz is also an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota and is actively involved in the training of students, residents, and fellows. Presently, he also serves as the HealthPartners Hospice’s medical director and is the lead physician for its Palliative Care Community-based program. Dr. Ruiz has been involved in several diversity, equity, and inclusion projects. He is currently a co-sponsor of the Regions’ Health Equity Committee and has a special interest in the areas of cross-cultural medicine and cultural humility.Listen along as Dr. Ruiz shares his knowledge on health disparities.Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships.More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's show is on health disparities and we have Dr. Miguel Ruiz with us. We'll talk to him in just a second and introduce him. We have a great crew, as if any of you in our listening audience have heard some of our great shows. We always like to recognize our staff. Today we have Sheridan Nygaard is doing our recording for us. Thank you, Sheridan.
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Today, health disparities, which is actually, to me, it's like, okay, what's new? But we'll get to that in a minute for sure. We have a wonderful guest with us, Dr. Miguel Ruiz. is an internal medicine and palliative care specialist, has been in the state of Minnesota for 25 years. Nice chunk of time. After working as an internist at one of our community health clinics,
He now practices at Regions Hospitals where he works as hospice medicine physician and a palliative care specialist, assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. And he is currently a co-sponsor of the Regions Health Equity Committee and has a special, special interest in the subject that we're talking about today today. So many, many thanks for being with us.
This is a complicated subject. And I know that you have some great insights. So thank you for being with us, Miguel. I really appreciate it. Clarence.
Good morning, everybody. I am excited to have Miguel here to talk about this topic because I think it is one of the, as Stan said, this is one of the most interesting topics to have in this country, but also especially in Minnesota. So I'm going to leave it there and let Stan start talking, but I have some really probing questions to ask in your opinions.
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