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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

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12, 2012). “[W]hen the circumstances surrounding the presentation of a prescription would give rise to suspicion in a ‘reasonable professional,’ there is a duty to question the prescription.” (The CDC has advised clinicians to carefully assess increasing total opioid dosage to greater than 50 MMEs per day). Holiday CVS, L.L.C.

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Prescribing Red Flags: Pharmacists Be Wary of What the Doctor Orders

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86, 72703 (December 22, 2021), DEA emphasized in the Gulf Med decision that prescribing [r]ed flags are circumstances surrounding a prescription that cause a pharmacist to take pause, including signs of diversion or the potential for patient harm. Patients filling prescriptions at the same time at multiple pharmacies. 81, 86, 251.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

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There’s an organization that I took my training from, which began, I want to say, in 2012. Whenever I take care of a patient, I see myself as a family practice doctor, but I’ve been a hospitalist, I’ve been a primary care doctor, and I’ve done palliative. I wonder, is this only for patients in hospice?

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

The episodes turned both women into advocates for patients and spurred research that made American health care safer. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals. It also has published tools and guidelines to enhance patient safety.