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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, 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.
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. In 2022 he was chosen as MAVEN project volunteer physician of the year. Dr. Abramson, a member of Toastmasters for many years, is an award winning speaker in this organization
Dr. Abramson lives with his wife, Pamela, in San Mateo, CA. They have recently celebrated their 47th 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.
He can be found on LinkedIn.