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Role of General Practitioners in Acute Case Handling

Physician's Weekly

Analysis of 500+ urgent GP visits in Germany shows most cases were handled in-office, often driven by fear, distress, or a need for reassurance. Cases were categorized by urgency levels as “not-acute” (could have been treated on another day), “acute” (had to be treated the same day), and “emergency” (had to be treated immediately).

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CONTINUED AGAIN: DEA Announces A Second Extension of its “Temporary Rule” Addressing Telemedicine Flexibilities After the End of the COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency

FDA Law

Palmer — On Friday, October 6, 2023, DEA announced a second extension of telemedicine flexibilities concerning the prescribing of controlled substances, which were originally set to expire after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency. By Karla L. DEA received a whopping 38,000 (!) comments on the two proposed rules.

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Growing together: How Sound creates a culture of leadership

Sound Physicians

Great patient care starts with great clinician leadership. The expertise and thoughtfulness that our leaders bring to our patients, teams, and, most importantly, our hospital partners is not something that just happens. It is, by design, built into the ways we educate, train, and support our clinical leadership.

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Dedicated ICU management: Navigating the transition

Sound Physicians

Sound Critical Care is at the forefront of bringing coordinated leadership and clinical excellence to hospital ICUs and the patients within them. Clinicians must divide their time between the ICU and the group’s outpatient channels, and keeping up with patient demand becomes difficult.

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Using technology to reclaim our time

Today's Hospitalist

For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions. It can differentiate between a physician’s questions and a patient’s responses and even filter out non-relevant small talk.

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From Surgeries To Keeping Company: The Place Of Robots In Healthcare

The Medical Futurist

Robotic nurses dressing mannequins and bed-bathing patients Delicate movement, like gently handling an elderly patient is traditionally the most challenging task to robots, who are much faster developing in intellectual tasks than matching humans in fine-motor skills. But there is undoubtedly impressive progress.

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Behind the stethoscope: A conversation with Dr. Osman Saleem

Sound Physicians

I interacted with Sound clinicians during my residency, and seeing the impact they had on the patients and hospital leadership was inspiring. I began as a nocturnist with Sound, otherwise known as a hospitalist who cares for patients at night. I saw how they approached problems and put out fires. What keeps you at Sound?