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A Decade of Blogging!

Aspiring Minority Doctor

Okay, now I'll admit I've done a horrible job of keeping up with the blog lately especially given that this is only my fifth post of the year, but today is still super special for me. This blog has helped a lot with some of my successes. When I started this blog she had just turned 7, and now my baby is 17!

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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

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Unusual Amounts and Dosages Dispensing high doses of opioids in quantities far exceeding the daily morphine milligram equivalent (“MME”) dose recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”). The Zarzamora decision identifies the following as prescribing red flags at issue in the case: 1. Complaint ¶ 57. (The

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Advanced Imaging of Children in the ED: Ultrasound, CT, and MRI

PEMBlog

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Optimizing Advanced Imaging of the Pediatric Patient in the Emergency Department: Policy Statement. Pediatrics. 2024;154(1):e2024066854.

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CDC Proposes Updating Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, Warning Against Continued Misapplication

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Houck — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) issued a voluntary practice guideline on opioid prescribing for clinicians treating chronic pain five years ago. (We We blogged on the final 2016 guideline here on March 17, 2016). By Larry K. Proposed 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, 87 Fed.

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CDC Emphasizes Opioid Guideline is Voluntary and Should Support, Not Supplant, Patient Care

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CDC received some 5,500 comments from patients, caregivers, clinicians and interested organizations to the proposed guideline update it issued in February. We blogged on the 2016 guideline here in March 2016, and the proposed guideline here on March 18th). MMWR Recomm Rep 2022;71(No. RR-3):1–95. 2022 Guideline”). DOI: [link].