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Empowerment Self-Defense Arms ED Staff Against Rising Workplace Violence

Physician's Weekly

A 2024 American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) poll revealed that 91% of emergency physicians reported that they or a colleague experienced violence in the past year. The emergency room has become a pressure cooker, and healthcare professionals are paying the price. The Warner Bros.

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. Any particular thoughts on how to manage pain and liver disease from a pharmacological perspective? How you think about that.

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Flu Season 2024-2025: CDC Reports Worst Outbreak in Years

Physicians News Digest

According to the CDC , the onset of the 2024-2025 flu season has been marked by an unusually high number of cases. Nationwide, healthcare facilities are implementing contingency plans to manage the influx of patients. The post Flu Season 2024-2025: CDC Reports Worst Outbreak in Years first appeared on Physicians News.

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

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This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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We would find these people in the hospital, and we said, “What would you have thought if someone had come up to you in the emergency room yesterday, and said, ‘Hey, instead of going upstairs, you could go home.’ By the year 2000, everyone will be in a Medicare managed care plan.” And you get the DRG.

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‘Not Accountable to Anyone’: As Insurers Issue Denials, Some Patients Run Out of Options

Physician's Weekly

In some cases, it is used to intentionally generate profits for health insurers, according to a 2024 U.S. “At the end of the day, they’re a business and they exist to make money,” said Pickern, who wrote about the negative impacts of prior authorization on patient care for The American Journal of Managed Care.