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“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

Since we basically don’t have a clue, let alone agreement, about what Quality really is ( see my 2009 post “ Quality or Conformity? Six years ago, I wrote the essay below about an article I read in the New England Journal of Medicine. We meet people where they are and in many different ways.

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Oregon-based medical group Northwest Permanente announces affiliation with The Permanente Medical Group of Northern California

Permanente Medicine

Since 2009, TPMG has been affiliated with Maryland-based MAPMG, which comprises nearly 1,800 physicians in 60 specialties, providing care for 768,000+ Kaiser Permanente members in the region. TPMG teams are sharing programs for diabetes management to support patients in NWP. Kaiser Permanente in Northern California received 4.5

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Identifying and Resolving Red Flags: DEA Continues to “Run it Up the Flagpole”

FDA Law Blog

12, 2012) (quoting Bob’s Pharmacy & Diabetic Supplies; Revocation of Registration, 74 Fed. 29, 2009)). DEA investigated Gulf Med because it was one of the top ten purchasers of oxycodone, hydromorphone and hydrocodone in Florida. Holiday CVS, L.L.C. d/b/a CVS/Pharmacy Nos. 219 and 5195; Decision and Order , 77 Fed.

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