Arun Veera

Home: Michigan.  Age: 40-something; seasoned enough to listen deeply.  Birthplace: India. Profession: Family Medicine.  Organization: American Red Cross.  Title: Family Physician. Pronouns: He/Him/His.  Alma mater: Case Western Reserve University; Saginaw Valley State University.  Languages spoken: Hindi, Telugu, Kannada. Current project: Community service.  Recent recognition: A patient once told me: you listened like no one else […]

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Why the Chronic Disease Model Is Outdated: Dr. Arun Veera on the Multimorbidity Era

In American medicine, chronic disease is treated like a series of separate battles: one guideline per diagnosis, one specialist per organ system, one set of targets at a time. But Dr. Arun Veera, a board-certified family medicine physician with more than 14 years on the front lines, says that model no longer matches the people […]

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