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Medicaid expansion is in the eye of the beholder

The Health Policy Exchange

To supporters of the Affordable Care Act, legislative expansion of the Medicaid program is a welcome financial and health care bonanza for states and uninsured patients. In fiscal year 2011, Medicaid spending totaled $414 billion, with two-thirds going to services for disabled elderly persons.

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Validation of Mood and Anxiety Disorder Case Definitions using Primary Care Electronics Medical Records [Big data]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Mental health conditions have increasing prevalence, co-occurrence, and high management burden within primary care settings. Population: 1,692,987 patients from seven Canadian provinces with a visit between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2021. depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder), and schizophrenia.

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Texas invests $50M in psychedelic drug research to treat addiction

Medical Xpress

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients? Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed.

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Surfers play crucial role in beach safety according to study

Medical Xpress

Although they make a vital contribution to saving lives, bystander rescues often expose untrained individuals to hazardous conditions without the training and equipment available to professionals. However, we do not guarantee individual replies due to the high volume of messages. Sometimes, bystanders become victims themselves.