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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 1: Differentiating organic versus psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status

PEMBlog

Furthermore, the connection between physical and functional symptoms is inextricably linked in many patients. In: Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 5th, Fleisher GR, Ludwig S, Henretig FM (Eds), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia 2006. We have developed a series of pain focused episodes.

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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog

However, FDA states that this exemption does not apply to corporate or hospital laboratories that employ licensed practitioners, and the agency says FD&C Act otherwise contains no exception or limitation for devices manufactured by laboratories. This comparison is misplaced.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. Healthcare staff were afraid of patients with HIV because there wasn’t clarity on how it was transmitted. Michele: Yep. Eric: Mm-hmm. And then they entered.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

GeriPal

And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. And so the patients who had been admitted there to die, essentially most, if not all, got better and HIV became much more of a chronic condition. And I think patients too, don’t always people.

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

Common Sense Family Doctor

Nonetheless, its work has often been politically unpopular and unheralded outside of a small community of health services researchers and patient advocates. Despite this deliberately circumscribed mandate (I lost count of the number of times during my tenure as an AHRQ medical officer from 2006-2010 that I was told, "We don't make guidelines.