Sound Physicians

APRIL 28, 2025

Still, we know that sometimes the final decision comes down to a single factor: cost. While we’ve earned our reputation over the decades for our clinical excellence in hospital medicine , we’ve also earned — somewhat unfairly — a reputation for being more expensive than our competitors. Physician compensation is tied to quality of care.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 20, 2024

After searching 177 keywords using FOAMSearch, the top 50 FOAM websites on the (now defunct) Social Media Index, and seven additional PEM-focused blogs, we reviewed and quality assessed 441 blog posts on relevant topics. For each blog, we extracted information such as author names and date of publication. Happy learning!

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Sound Physicians

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Sound Critical Care is at the forefront of bringing coordinated leadership and clinical excellence to hospital ICUs and the patients within them. However, if a group is engrained in the fabric of a community’s care, arrangements are always available for providers who want to continue working in their hospital’s ICU.

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ABIM

JUNE 12, 2025

Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N. The following is a summary of the spring meeting.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 19, 2025

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) maintains that clinical privileges should be based on documented training and experience rather than the physician’s specialty. From 2016 to 2021, the percentage of screening colonoscopies performed by family physicians decreased from 11.3%

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 1, 2025

Clinical practice guidelines on the management of episodic migraine headache, including the 2023 US Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense guideline , preferentially recommend triptans for most patients.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 12, 2025

In its updated recommendations, the USPSTF recommends only a “clinical risk assessment” and notes that if FRAX is used, it “does not intend that these 10-year risk levels be used as mechanistic thresholds” to decide who should undergo dual-energy absorptiometry screening. being perfect and 0.5 being no better than chance.

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Sound Physicians

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Learn more about careers at Sound Posted in Careers , Hospital Medicine , Leadership Share Article Subscribe to the Sound Physicians Blog A trusted source for todays healthcare needs. Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Patient Privacy | Compliance Search Submit Subscribe to the Op-Med blog! Receive blog updates directly to your inbox.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 17, 2024

Peter Marks at James Valentine ’s FDA Rare Disease Town Hall session at the DIA Annual Meeting last month (see Pink Sheet coverage here ), this Hub is intended to serve as the Center of Excellence that we in the rare disease community have been calling for its establishment over the last several years.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

Dr. Michelle Rockwell and colleagues at the Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, Virginia, performed a sludge audit of their colorectal cancer (CRC) screening services in 2021 and 2022.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Watchful waiting refers to clinical observation only. A recent analysis of the U.S.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

AUGUST 25, 2019

Welcome back, Clinical Problem Solvers! A CXR showed a left upper lobe consolidation, and he was treated with antibiotics for presumed community-acquired pneumonia. In this post we’ll dive deeper into our illness script for Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (GPA). A CT Chest showed multifocal cavitary lung nodules.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 26, 2025

In this episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast, we explore the clinical pearls behind “no-zone” management, how to distinguish hard and soft signs, when to image versus operate, and why airway always comes first. Penetrating neck injuries in children are rare—but when they happen, the stakes are high.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 14, 2020

The second major factor complicating our diagnostic reasoning during this time is the dramatic shift in prevalence of the disease in the community. As described by my friend Jack Penner elsewhere in this blog series, a core tenet of analytic reasoning involves interpretation of the pretest and posttest probabilities of a disease.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JANUARY 18, 2021

Understand that collective action and a focus on community, rather than individualism, are most effective in combating racism and achieving health equity. One of the biggest barriers to health equity is the narrow focus on the individual and a failure to see health as a widespread community issue. The Clinical Problem Solvers Podcast.

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ABIM

APRIL 24, 2025

Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Representatives from the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) joined for a portion of the meeting*.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JULY 28, 2020

Women are less likely to become full professors or achieve leadership positions at academic medical institutions, and they receive significantly less compensation on average (even after accounting for clinical and research productivity). The challenges of being a woman in medicine resonate with my own and many others’ experiences.

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ABIM

MAY 7, 2025

Read Full Article Close Article Physicians provide valuable feedback on ABIM programs and policies Physicians play a critical role in shaping ABIM’s programs, ensuring they remain relevant, fair and aligned with the realities of modern clinical practice. The post News & Notes: Spring 2025 first appeared on ABIM Blog.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Billy Dunn, the Director of CDER’s Office of Neuroscience, at the September 7, 2022 meeting of the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee, applying the statutory standard in approval decisions in these clinical contexts warrants the “broadest possible” flexibility. emphasis added).

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

Houck We appreciate receiving feedback on our blog posts. Our reader informed us of two additional prescribing/dispensing red flags that DEA has alleged are unresolvable that he wanted to share with the pharmacy community. CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain United States, 2022 , 71 MMWR Recomm.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

So, with this chapter, I hope to briefly touch on the basics of market investing and describe why simple diversification and index fund investing are the most effective ways for busy clinical physicians and healthcare providers to invest with the expectation of long-term gains. Most clinical physicians are busy.

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PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

(Blooms: Apply; Kirkpatrick Level 2 Learning) Evaluate the risks and benefits of ultrasound, CT, and MRI for common pediatric emergencies and identify appropriate imaging modalities based on clinical guidelines discussed in the podcast. And so we routinely do outreach with our community providers. Subspecialists are key, right?

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 23, 2021

Janet Woodcock’s leadership, identified the need for more systematic patient engagement — a way to improve representativeness and be more proactive rather than reactive to interacting with patient communities. However, the scope of patient input goes beyond setting the clinical context.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

FDA said randomized clinical trials could be used, but so could observational studies with respect to cessation data. Says the Court: “It is perhaps possible that FDA did its part to give the regulated community clear guidance and that one million out of one million not only got it wrong but got it unreasonably wrong.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

Cato — On June 1, CDRH announced that it is seeking public comment on questions regarding how CDRH can facilitate access to medical technologies designed for use outside of traditional clinical settings, particularly in the home. What medical technologies could be ideal to transition to use in non-clinical settings?

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

This is a blog post and a podcast episode designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

To this end, FDA recently announced the publication of a guidance titled “Considerations for Long-Term Clinical Neurodevelopmental Safety Studies in Neonatal Product Development,” (the “Guidance”). This guidance finalizes a draft guidance issued in February 2023. What factors should be considered when developing a long-term safety study plan?

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The draft guidance states that this addition is consistent with FDA’s obligations under the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention That Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act , which required FDA to update existing guidance documents to address how the Agency may apply breakthrough criteria to such products.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Eric: Well, before we talk about dysphagia and revisit it, which is also interesting, because this is our first podcast, I think on dysphagia, but we’ve talked about it before on GeriPal, in our blog. But estimates in community dwelling older adults are around 15%. I think someone has a song request for Alex. Raele: I do.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

It depends on the clinical situation. As I’ve been blogging about this for a couple months now, I’m really trying to find anyone who loves these things. But we still, regardless of how you do this calculation have to temper it with clinical judgment. Drew: I’ve published a draft version of it on the blog.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

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. 220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here. EKRA is codified at 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. §

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

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. 220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here. EKRA is codified at 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. §

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Comments, including data from research and clinical practice, that provides evidence that an alternate maximum day supply (other than the proposed 30-day supply). Proposed practitioner recordkeeping obligations. Additional safeguards or flexibilities that should be considered with respect to the rule.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical. They can handle this problem.

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A Country Doctor Writes

APRIL 6, 2025

The thought of writing about my experience as a doctor had been percolating for a couple of years before I started my blog and published my first post on April 28, 2008. I didn’t know then if it was going to be a book or a blog or something else. Talk of fodder for writing about being a doctor.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

Barriers to implementing findings from lung cancer screening trials into typical clinical practice include the nonrepresentative nature of research participants (younger, healthier, and less racially and geographically diverse than the target populations) and the superior infrastructure and clinical support available to them.

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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

Representatives from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE), the Association of Program Directors in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (APDEM) and the Endocrine Society joined for a portion of the meeting*. Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N.

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