Professor in Medical Humanities and Bioethics;and;Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Physical Medicine/Rehab
Kristi Kirschner works in the field of Physical Medicine/Rehab. He went to medical school at University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is ranked 10 in research and 19 in primary care medicine He has 5 awards "America's Top Doctors", "Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors", "Chicago Magazine - Women's Health", "Super Doctor" and "Top MD". Doctor Kristi Kirschner, MD is a published physician. He published 60 publications, including: 'Assessing the knowledge of future internists and gynecologists in caring for a woman with tetraplegia.' Kristi Kirschner, MD accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Physician Paternalism and Severe Disability: Strengthening Autonomy through Therapeutic Engagement.
- Temporizing after Spinal cord injury.
- Expert testimony: implications for life care planning.
- Is an appropriate wheelchair becoming out of reach? - Part 2.
- Is an appropriate wheelchair becoming out of reach?
- The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: what is at stake for physiatrists and the patients we serve.
- Did we reach too far? The opioid epidemic and Chronic pain.
- Balancing burdens and benefits: ethical issues of off-label prescription pharmaceutical use.
- When teams fumble: cancer rehabilitation and the problem of the "Handoff".
- Social media: boon or boondoggle for health care professionals?
- Pregnancy outcomes of women with physical disabilities: a matched cohort study.
- Surrogate decision making in the case of a pregnant woman newly disabled with brain injury.
- The outlier.
- Ethical challenges of caring for VIPs in the rehabilitation setting.
- "Why can't I move, Doc?" Ethical dilemmas in treating conversion Disorders.
- North American medical schools' experience with and approaches to the needs of students with physical and sensory disabilities.
- The tracheostomy tube.
- What is the role of the speech-language pathologist?
- Galactorrhea: a complication of Spinal cord injury.
- Rethinking anger and advocacy in bioethics.
- Outcomes of cardiopulmonary arrest in an acute rehabilitation setting.
- Assessing the knowledge of future internists and gynecologists in caring for a woman with tetraplegia.
- Ethical implications of outcomes research.
- The impact of genetic technologies on perceptions of disability.
- Ethical issues identified by rehabilitation clinicians.
- Does brain injury or a brain disease constitute a sort of "death"?
- 'I don't want to live this way, doc. Please take me off the ventilator and let me die.'.
- Publishing clinical cases: who owns the story? Is the patient's consent needed?
- Should health care professionals Google patients or family members?
- Setting limits: the threat of violence in the health care setting.
- Who will provide care for people with complex physical disabilities?
- Lessons of leadership: the uncommon life of Dr Henry B. Betts.
- One city, two worlds.
- Informed consent and phase 1 research in Spinal cord injury.
- Case study. Sexuality and a severely brain-injured spouse. Commentary.
- Brave new world? Enhancement and rehabilitation medicine.
- Rehabilitation team disagreement: guidelines for resolution.
- Intrathecal baclofen administration during pregnancy: a case series and focused clinical review.
- Attending to inclusion: people with disabilities and health-care reform.
- Educating health care professionals to care for patients with disabilities.
- Your opinion please, doctor: is your patient unable to work in any capacity?
- Moral distress in rehabilitation professionals: results from a hospital ethics survey.
- The curious case of Ashley X.
- Ethical-legal issues in physiatrics.
- Feeding tubes: three perspectives.
- Ashley X.
- The next exclusion debate: assessing technology, ethics, and intellectual disability after the Human Genome Project.
- Structural impairments that limit access to health care for patients with disabilities.
- The prevalence and impact of disability among healthcare executives.
- Abandoning the Golden Rule: the problem with "putting ourselves in the patient's place".
- Unequal stakeholders: "For you, it's an academic exercise; for me, it's my life".
- Introduction to a special section on disability ethics. The Journal of Clinical Ethics.
- On "humility": the limited effect of disability.
- When written advance directives are not enough.
- Concepts of medical necessity in rehabilitation.
- Technical standards for the education of physicians with physical disabilities: perspectives of medical students, residents, and attending physicians.
- Attitudes of health care trainees about genetics and disability: issues of access, health care communication, and decision making.
- Ethical issues in rehabilitation: a qualitative analysis of dilemmas identified by occupational therapists.
- The challenges of human subject research in the new millenium.
Schools
University Of ChicagoThe Pritzker School Of Medicine
Michael Reese Hospital Med Center
Northwestern University Med School
Pritzker School Of Med University Of C
Conditions Treated
- Achilles Tendinitis
- Arthritis
- Ataxia
- Bakers Cyst
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Doctors Specialties
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Cofinity PPO
- CoreSource
- HealthLink PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Preferred PPO
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- United Healthcare
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors
- Chicago Magazine - Women's Health
- Super Doctor
- Top MD
Education
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McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University
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University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER |
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1255346086 |
| NPPES Provider LastName |
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KIRSCHNER |
| NPPES Provider FirstName |
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KRISTI |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode |
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606112654 |
| NPPES Provider State |
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IL |
| Specialty Description |
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation |
| Total Claim Count |
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100.0 |
| Distinct Opioid Count |
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0.0 |
| Opioid Claim Count |
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0.0 |
| Percent Opioid Claims |
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0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] |
1255346086 |
| Last Name Of The Provider |
KIRSCHNER |
| First Name Of The Provider |
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