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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

Joseph, the family medicine practice is committed to providing exceptional, affordable, patient-centered primary care in SW Michigan without reliance on insurance companies for payment of services. John Proos, with the goal of providing exceptional care to the patients of Berrien County. Joseph has succeeded in doing just that.

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An Escape Fire for Healthcare

Noreta Family Medicine

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care. minutes long.

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Parvo Podcast! Erythema Infectiosum, Fifth Disease, and more!

PEMBlog

Learning Objectives Describe the classic and atypical clinical presentations of Parvovirus B19 infection in pediatric patients, including erythema infectiosum, arthropathy, transient aplastic crisis, and chronic anemia in immunocompromised hosts. So as you can see, this virus does a lot of stuff. But what is it? Well, let’s get nerdy.

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Long Time Passing: Where Have All the De Novo Decision Summaries Gone?

FDA Law Blog

The De Novo process provides a regulatory pathway to classify novel devices for which general controls alone or general and special controls provide reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness for the intended use. This amendment allowed sponsors with low or moderate risk devices to proactively employ the De Novo process.

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Surely You Must be Kidding, PTO?!? “No, and Don’t Call Me Shirley!” – The Seemingly Slapstick (But Yet Unfunny) World of Recent Patent Term Extension Decisions (PART 1)

FDA Law Blog

For years after the enactment of the Hatch-Waxman Amendments the PTO interpreted the PTE statute to permit multiple PTEs, provided there are separate, but not necessarily different, regulatory review periods. leave you scratching your head (we’ll call it “Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb?”). 351, 355-56 (1985). l 56(c)(4) and 37 C.F.R.

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Does transitional care management improve outcomes after discharge from the hospital?

Common Sense Family Doctor

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. There are a lot of reasons that may explain the massive increase in use of these drugs. However, most gabapentin prescriptions are written off-label indications.