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Double-Booking the Doctor is Half-Booking the Patient

A Country Doctor Writes

I wrote this in 2016, when my visits were shorter because that EMR was simpler. Government. But the math is the same, no matter how long your normal appointments are. I have always tried to “squeeze” urgent visits in when I know the patient and the issue they’re having.

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Kraft Heinz to Remove Artificial Dyes From Products by 2027

Physician's Weekly

government, are now pushing back against them. It took artificial dyes out of Kraft Mac & Cheese in 2016, The WSJ said. Artificial dyes — like Red 40, Yellow 5 and 6, Blue 1 and 2 and Green 3 — are used in everything from candy and frosting to pie crusts and salad dressing. But many health experts, including those in the U.S.

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FOIA Requires Transparency of Instructions to FDA Staff, Even When Those Instructions Are to Pause Communications with the Public

FDA Law

As the DOJ FOIA Guide explains in its introduction : The United States Supreme Court has explained that [t]he basic purpose of [the] FOIA is to ensure an informed citizenry, vital to the functioning of a democratic society, needed to check against corruption and to hold the governors accountable to the governed. 552(a)(4)(B).

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Governor’s 2025-26 May Revision Proposes Major Cuts to Healthcare and Undermines Medi-Cal Expansion Commitments

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

Key Health Care Budget Proposals: Proposed Medi-Cal Cuts and Enrollment Changes Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, is typically funded through a partnership between the state and the federal government. To fill that gap, California has chosen to use state-only funds to provide certain Medi-Cal benefits to undocumented Californians.

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Silence Isn’t Golden: Two Executives Convicted in First Criminal Prosecution Under the Consumer Product Safety Act

FDA Law

According to the government, these companies knew as early as 2012 that their dehumidifiers were defective, in that they could overheat and catch fire. At the time, in 2016, the Gree Companies’ settlement for $15.45 The government charged these individuals with conspiracy (18 U.S.C. §

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

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

However, in 2016 they began to realize that the rules and oversight from insurance companies and government entities were creating an environment that took the focus of physicians away from the patients and onto their computers and the completion of irrelevant busywork.

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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

So, in 2016, she celebrated her 60th birthday at her local CVS. has long disparaged certain vaccines, calling them unsafe and saying that the government officials who regulate them are compromised and corrupt. Her doctor and several pharmacies turned her down because she was below the recommended age at the time, which was 60.