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Physicians’ Communication Skills are Overlooked and Undervalued

A Country Doctor Writes

I think this skill is undervalued in healthcare, compared with journalism or criminal investigative work. The world of media certainly recognizes the special skill it takes to get people to reveal their true selves. . So there’s got to be something to it or it would be a commodity.

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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

A year ago we did our first “Deprescribing Super Special”. Eric: So we’re calling this a deprescribing super special. We’ve done some deprescribing episodes before, but never a super special. Alex: No, I think we did one other super special. Alex: So this is Super special 2. Summary Transcript Summary.

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Episode 354: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 25 – Live from SGIM 2024: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2024 Annual Meeting

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Michelle Ogunwole, MD, PhD, an internist and social epidemiologist who specializes in the care of women with chronic medical conditions and racial disparities in maternal health outcomes, and Dr. Caroline Sloan, MD, a general internist whose research focuses on how financial considerations are imbued into medical decision-making. Karbeah, J.,

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

billion people were living with vision loss in 2020, and it is forecasted to reach 1.7 Digital contact lenses sound like science fiction: the translucent layer on your eye transmitting special information about your body to an outside device. Originally, the companies promised to put the digital contact lens on the market around 2020.

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Biogen agrees to pay $900 million in largest FCA Settlement Ever Secured without Government’s Intervention

FDA Law

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have aggressively pursued antikickback cases in the healthcare industry. HHS noticed an increasing trend of illegal kickbacks in connection with speaker programs and in November 2020, the Office of Inspector General issued a Special Fraud Alert on the topic.

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Episode 262: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 18 – Remedying Health Inequities Driven by the Carceral System

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Incarceration negatively affects the physical and mental health of people who are incarcerated as well as their family members and loved ones, and limits access to healthcare before, during, and after incarceration. All healthcare professionals will have patients who are directly or indirectly impacted by the carceral system.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

PEMBlog

Special thanks to Manpreet Singh, MD ( @MprizzleER ) for helping to put this collaboration together. Pediatrics October 2020; 146 (4): e20201174. 2020-1174 AAP-AACAP-CHA Declaration of a National Emergency in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Jennifer A. 2020-030692 Lo CB, Bridge JA, Shi J, Ludwig L, Stanley RM.