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Direct Primary Care - Role for the Future of Healthcare

The Direct Doctors Difference

Looking back to 2014, when we began, there were less than 100. Care is individualized with the incentive to keep patients healthy and keep the patient experience pleasant. As the market speaks, the corporations and governments will eventually have to listen. Patients are seen directly by doctors in many cases.

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Approaches for Quelling Stigma related to COVID-19

BMJ

A multilayered view of stigmatizing discourses lays the foundation for eliciting a series of suggestions for quelling stigma, to be implemented at the individual, community, and national levels, as suggested by the WHO. 2014 (28 August). Ebola-related stigma in Ghana: Individual and community level determinants.

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Get the 4-1-1 on your 1099s: 5th and 7th Circuits Permit Paying Volume-Based Compensation to Independent Sales Agents

FDA Law

Gonzalez There has been increased enforcement against medical device companies that engage in the pervasive practice of paying third party sales agents based on their volume of sales. In that decision, a medical laboratory paid Marchetti percentage-based compensation for successful referrals of Medicare patients to the laboratory.

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

GeriPal

2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences. It’s not a controlled substance medication. Eric: So I heard gabapentin is the 10th most commonly prescribed medication in the US. AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

link] Toronto Star Feature [link] CityNews Toronto Feature [link] Psychosocial Interventions at PEACH In addition to medical care, PEACH also runs two key psychosocial interventions for our clients: PEACH Grief Circles Structured spaces for workers in the homelessness sector to process grief. those experiencing homelessness).

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. So if you look at government websites about heat for example, it’s got a line of buttons across the top with affected populations, outdoor workers, athletes and older people are in there. Ruth: Right.

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Navigating Executive Orders and DOJ Memos That Threaten Criminal Prosecution

FDA Law

Even if otherwise truthful, the promotion of off-label uses of hormones-including through informal campaigns like those conducted by sales reps or under the guise of sponsored continuing medical education courses-run afoul of the FDAs prohibitions on misbranding and mislabeling. 149, 158 (2014). Anthony List v. Driehaus , 573 U.S.