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Get the 4-1-1 on your 1099s: 5th and 7th Circuits Permit Paying Volume-Based Compensation to Independent Sales Agents

FDA Law Blog

The Seventh Circuit took a more lenient approach than the Fourth Circuit, focusing its rationale on whether an independent contractor had improper influence over a healthcare providers independent healthcare decisions. Physicians had ultimate control and exercised independent judgment over their patients healthcare decisions.

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Is DCIS Cancer or Not?

AMMD

Some healthcare providers may recommend an MRI or ultrasound. Although the founder started the company in 2004, it lacks credibility in the US. Conventional Detection and Diagnosis Conventional medicine diagnoses about 90% of DCIS during mammograms. Anything that looks suspicious may warrant further diagnostic testing.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

PEMBlog

2004 Nov;49(4):302-9. This year, in addition to the 10 finalists Maneesha Agarwal will be presenting at the National Conference and Exhibition we will be sharing four cases online in advance of the conference. This is the second of the four cases. PMID: 442005; PMCID: PMC471015. Marrie TJ, Beecroft MD, Herman-Gnjidic Z. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2003.11.013.

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Primary care follow-up after Emergency Department discharge for patients with chest pain in Ontario: a scoping review [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Three observational studies of 273,294 adults discharged with chest pain from Ontario EDs between 2004-10 showed that 58-60% followed up with their PCP within 30 days, which was associated with reduced risk of death or myocardial infarction after one year. Results: Among 128 search results, three studies met inclusion criteria.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics. But then I realized who I wasn’t hearing from, I did not hear from the CEO of my organization, my healthcare organization. One was very surprising.

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RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

Physician's Weekly

The two had access to the CDC database in 2004 and 2006. The VSD includes data from a dozen large healthcare networks. It led to revocation of the elder Geier’s medical license and disciplinary action for David Geier for practicing medicine without a license.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

Read transcript and/or download & listen to MP3 below:  Physician burnout—symptom of a broken system “Burnout” has become one of the most talked-about issues in healthcare—but behind the buzzword lies a deeper crisis. I was suicidal myself as a physician and I survived that in 2004. Not while I was dating them.

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