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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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Empowerment Self-Defense Arms ED Staff Against Rising Workplace Violence

Physician's Weekly

For physicians, nurses, medical assistants, and support staff, workplace violence (WPV) is now a daily hazard, inflicting physical injury, emotional trauma, and eroding the quality of patient care. As The Pitt illustrates, unchecked violence in the ED leads to moral injury, staff attrition, and compromised patient care.

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Healthcare Gentrification and Access to Care Equity: Results From a Scoping Review [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

2010), as well as more recent scoping review methodology guidelines described by Colquhoun (2014). Our results highlighted the geographic barriers to primary healthcare services and how patients living below the poverty threshold are disproportionately affected by healthcare gentrification.

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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. The strength also comes from a group of physicians who want something more and something better - improved work-life balance, return of joy to practicing medicine, and a renewal of the pure physician-patient relationship where the doctor knows his or her patient well.

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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. How to reduce the negative psychological impact MRSA isolation on patients. 2014 (28 August).

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Critics Suggest FDA Approving Aduhelm Will Erode the “Public Trust”: What About Patients’ Trust?

FDA Law Blog

Valentine — For the last 13 years, this blogger has been at the center of what has now been dubbed “patient-focused drug development.” For 6 years, I served as a patient liaison within FDA in what was then called the Office of Special Health Issues. By James E. The practice of medicine was viewed as paternalistic.

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eMDR System Enhancements

FDA Law Blog

Background FDA first introduced the final rule and guidance on eMDR in 2014 , which we blogged about here. eMDR submissions can be submitted in one of two ways: Health Level 7 Individual Case Safety Reports (HL7 ICSR) via AS2 (for high volume reporting) or by using FDA’s eSubmitter software (for low volume reporting).