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Working Out – Dan Minter

The Clinical Problem Solvers

If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably found yourself asking that question after listening to a discussant on the podcast arrive at some unexpected diagnosis, only to have the biopsy or lab test prove them right. Dr.’s Vivek Murthy, Bridget O’Brien, and Gurpreet Dhaliwal sought to answer this question in a 2018 study.

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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law Blog

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. These lab tests are performed for physicians, substance abuse treatment centers and other types of organizations.

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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law Blog

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. These lab tests are performed for physicians, substance abuse treatment centers and other types of organizations.

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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

Wendy Dean and Simon Talbot with their landmark 2018 article, Physicians aren’t ‘burning out.’ Moral injury now extends beyond combat veterans to include physicians in 2018 when Dean and Talbot announced their opposition and alternative to the label physician “burnout.” So what’s the real issue? They’re suffering from moral injury.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

I just had lab tests done. I didn’t know which lab test got my lab tests looked on there. All of a sudden, as a 49 year old, I see I have a PSA on my lab test. Well, not recently, like six months, a year ago. I forget when after not having had one and even before I saw the person.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

William: So ASCO decided to make a high priority this year to redo the guidelines, which were originally released in 2018. Like getting a donor, doing all the different tests, making sure there’s not going be an interaction. Eric: But if the Practical Geriatric Assessment was a lab test, everybody would get it.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

2018 Nov;142(5):e20181009. Epub 2018 Oct 8. Morata and colleagues did a single center perspective randomized control trial back in 2018 that noted that regular antipyretics may reduce the recurrence of febrile seizures during the same fever episode, so during that illness. Pediatrics. doi: 10.1542/peds.2018-1009. PMID: 30297499.

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