Dr. Scott Abramson practiced Neurology with Kaiser Permanente
Northern California for over 40 years, 1979 through to 2020 (parts of
six decades and two centuries.)

For most of those years, Dr. Abramson has been passionately
involved in the physician communication and the physician wellness
projects. He has delivered dozens of workshops in this arena and
personally coached scores of physicians and staff. He has developed
programs on time management, physician -patient communication,
marriage in medicine, burnout, the threatened physician, difficult
conversations, presentation skills, storytelling, and his favorites, “The
Secret of Happiness” and “What The Great Wisdom of Country Music
Can Teach Physicians.”

 

He enjoys giving talks on these and other subjects.

Dr. Abramson, for over 20 years, wrote a monthly column on communication issues and physician health and wellness issues.
 

Some can be found in video format on this YouTube website
channel: doctorwisdom.net

A compilation of these articles has recently been published by
Covenant Books, entitled, “Bedside Manners, for Physicians and
Everybody Else. What they don’t teach in medical school or any other
school.”

Dr. Abramson has been a long- time volunteer physician with the
Samaritan House Clinic in San Mateo, providing medical care to the
county’s indigent population. He is also a volunteer with the MAVEN
project, providing Neurology support to clinicians in underserved
areas across America.

In 1982, Dr. Abramson was awarded the Physician of the Year honor
in his medical facility. In 2003 he was given Teaching Excellence
Award from Physician Education, and in 2010 was nominated as a
Kaiser Hero for his work in regional physician communication. 
Dr. Abramson lives with his wife, Pamela, in San Mateo, Ca.

 

They have recently celebrated their 45th anniversary of marriage.

Dr. Abramson has set foot in 48 of 50 states, lacking only Wisconsin
and North Dakota. He and his two sons have visited over 26 Major

League baseball parks, and proudly proclaim, in all those arenas, no
Abramson family member has ever participated in the wave.

Several of his articles can be found on KevinMD.