The Direct Doctors Difference

AUGUST 18, 2021

Looking back to 2014, when we began, there were less than 100. A system more balanced by small practices mixed into larger hospitals will bring us back to a time when patients and doctors were happier with care and corporations didn’t dictate medical choice. There are likely many more than have been officially labeled on the map.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

However, FDA states that this exemption does not apply to corporate or hospital laboratories that employ licensed practitioners, and the agency says FD&C Act otherwise contains no exception or limitation for devices manufactured by laboratories. This comparison is misplaced.

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Adventures of a Sick Doctor

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

The reason for my restricted movements was my Portacath, the small firm hockey-puck device which was implanted in the right side of my chest wall in December 2014. I had made up my mind last Christmas that I was happy to have it out, and then I chickened out and decided to wait for One More Scan.

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BMJ

JULY 17, 2020

8 For example, prestigious medical schools and hospitals could use official WeChat accounts to share information and news with the general public. 2014 (28 August). Prejudice toward Asian Americans in the Covid-19 pandemic: the effects of social media use in the United States. Front Commun ́2020 (June 12; published online).

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This case was submitted by Dr. Andrea De Jesús Martínez Chief PEM Fellow at Baylor College of Medicine | Texas Children’s Hospital Instagram: @bcm_pemfellows Co-author: Benjamin Silva, MD, MPH The Case A 4-year-old male with no significant past medical history presents with headache and vomiting. 9,3 (2014): 168-72.

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PEMBlog

JULY 17, 2023

At that point you can follow the step of inserting new G-tube Bonus Videos This video is by Nemours Children’s Hospital. 18, 2014, doi:10.1056/nejmvcm1207131. The steps on how to insert a new G-tube occurs at minute 11. References Juern, Jeremy, and Amy Verhaalen. Gastrostomy-Tube Exchange.” New England Journal of Medicine, vol.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In September 2014—nearly ten years ago!—PTE But there are still a couple of possibilities lurking out there! The first multiple PTE case up-to-bat concerns Gilead Sciences Inc.’s The first multiple PTE case up-to-bat concerns Gilead Sciences Inc.’s PTE applications were submitted to FDA for each of U.S. RE 44,599 and U.S. Patent Nos.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The 340B program, authorized under Section 340B of the Public Health Services Act and administered by HRSA, imposes a ceiling price on pharmaceutical manufacturer sales to “covered entities,” which are certain health clinics that receive federal funding and certain types of safety net hospitals to provide them drugs at lower prices.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

In 2014, I began reporting human rights violations in medicine after uncovering widespread abuse in medical training and practice via my physician suicide helpline. My job is to prevent human suffering and death—even when inflicted by institutional violence against physicians inside our own hospitals.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: Quebec administrative health databases containing de-identified prescription drug claims, ER visits, hospitalizations, and medical acts held by the National Institute for Excellence in Health and Social Services (INESSS) were used. 2) Hazard ratio for an adverse event (emergency room visit, hospitalization, or death).

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

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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The Health Policy Exchange

JANUARY 3, 2013

Remarkably, Medicare was fully implemented only 11 months after the bill's signing, overcoming obstacles such as hospital segregation in the South, resistance from physician organizations such as the American Medical Association, and the logistical issues involved in issuing insurance cards to 18 million eligible seniors.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

It was launched in 2014 as an iOS app , available in 6 languages, and among others, it offers an on-the-go skincare assessment tool as first-step guidance on skincare concerns. 8) VisualDx Thousands of hospitals, clinics, and medical schools use VisualDx to aid diagnostic accuracy, enhance medical education, and improve patient outcomes.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The analysis included 2014 to 2017 data from the Association of American Medical Colleges data warehouse (83,342 matriculants and 56,031 respondents to the Matriculating Student Questionnaire [MSQ]). The researchers found that attrition rates were higher among MSQ nonrespondents (3.8 percent).

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The Direct Doctors Difference

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As an update to that blog , we want to begin by highlighting again that according to Merritt Hawkins, the average wait time for a new patient appointment with a primary care doctor is 29 days, up 50% from 2014. In Rhode Island, the wait continues to be much longer.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. So, Alex, imagine you’re a seriously-ill hospitalized patient and I’m your doctor, unluckily for you. Eric: Either.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital. So that study was focused on patients admitted to the hospital. Was the clinician working frontline in those community hospitals? hospice use).

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Paramedics can provide life-saving treatment on the way to the hospital. Paramedics can provide immediate emergency interventions on the way to the hospital, including oxygen support and life-saving medications. Infections or allergic reactions can block your airway and lead to life-threatening complications.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. You didn’t have to walk many blocks down the street to a hospital or another facility where people were getting world class care. Naheed 15:56 2014. Eric 15:57 2014.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. How did you get interested in this?

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences. Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. JAGS 2022 Trends in Antipsychotic and Mood Stabilizer Prescribing in Long-Term Care in the U.S.:

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Eric: Whenever I hear about for-profit, non-for-profit, the differences between them, mostly everybody turns to, I think, your 2014 paper looking at the differences between for-profit and non-for-profit. Melissa: The other scenario that exists is just disenrollment because an individual is hospitalized. Go ahead, Lauren. Lauren: Oh.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 5, 2024

2014 May;133(5):e1179-88. Or patients with a substantial head or torso injury and substantial means that they’re going to require an intervention or observation in the hospital. Any patient with a cervical spine injury or a neurologic deficit They’re getting admitted to the hospital. Pediatrics. doi: 10.1542/peds.2013-3505.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Her name is Emily Groopman, and she’s a current resident at Children’s National Hospital. She did her MD/PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the diagnostic utility of exome sequencing for kidney disease. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Available from: [link] Rice GM, Steiner RD. Pediatr Rev.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. Lexy: Yeah, so I can say that I became about, in 2014, I had the opportunity to lead a center at our health system called the Evans Center that focuses on religion, spirituality, and health.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

Jeff: I’ve been doing this since 2014. Alex: 2014. Jeff: G1 is a hospital wing. Alex: And I wanted to ask maybe each of you, I don’t know if maybe I’ll turn to… Would that be all right if I talk to Jeff? Jeff, how long have you been working here? And how long have you been in the California prison system?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And so we do see hospital admissions for heat exposure and certainly cardiovascular and respiratory problems related to air pollution with climate change and also cognitive problems. Elders Climate Action, and let me just tell you a little bit about who we are, was created in 2014 as the project of a 501(c)(3), Elders Action Network.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis 2014; 59:e10. So when do you want to think about admission to the hospital or short stay unit versus discharge? Clin Infect Dis 2011; 52:e18.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Prior authorization varies by plan but often requires patients or their providers to get permission (also called precertification, preauthorization, or preapproval) before filling prescriptions, scheduling imaging, surgery, or an inpatient hospital stay, among other expenses. The practice isn’t new.

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