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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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Big Win for HP&M Client: Court of Appeals Tells FDA to Regulate Barium Sulfate As a Device

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After an FDA inspection in 2016, Genus was told that it could not distribute barium sulfate because it was an unapproved drug. The judges also said that changes to the language of the governing Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act over the last couple of decades did not abrogate the clear statutory definitions.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

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The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. In 2016 there were about a thousand MAID deaths, in 2021 there were about 10,000. Four percent. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Please.

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Marijuana: Top Ten Reasons for Descheduling, Rescheduling or Not

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There has been no evidence that marijuana’s schedule should change since the last rescheduling review in 2016. Rescheduling increases the ability to research cannabis to determine the physical and mental impacts of cannabis use. In other words, no rescheduling.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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These were usually very physically demanding, low paid, often usually non-union work, that they worked their whole lives and were hanging on by their fingernails. In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients? They were working usually more than one job.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. 2015, 2016. And then 2016 after CMMI finished the evaluation, it looked good, nothing happened. Diane: Which too many people do, Malaz. Malaz: Yeah. Diane: Yeah.