PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This is a blog post 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

JANUARY 6, 2022

220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here. Clinical treatment facility” is defined as “a medical setting, other than a hospital, that provides detoxification, risk reduction, outpatient treatment and care, residential treatment, or rehabilitation for substance use, pursuant to licensure or certification under State law.”

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here. Clinical treatment facility” is defined as “a medical setting, other than a hospital, that provides detoxification, risk reduction, outpatient treatment and care, residential treatment, or rehabilitation for substance use, pursuant to licensure or certification under State law.”

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

You can find our preliminary blog post on the release of this guidance here , and our blog posts on the draft CDS guidances here and here. Specifically, the guidance interprets the Cures Act’s four criteria for exclusion of CDS software functions from FDA’s medical device jurisdiction (so-called “Non-Device CDS”).

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

Last week the anti-burnout buzz accelerated when ZDogg quoted my 2015 blog— Burnout is BS —in his viral video “It’s not burnout, it’s moral injury” echoing my advice that we stop saying the victim-blaming term. If we don’t name the definitive diagnosis, how do we progress to appropriate labs, tests, and interventions?

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Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

Some family doctors work in a residency training program where they may see patients in the hospital, out of the hospital, and deliver babies. There are lab tests, imaging studies, vaccines, and screening questions for people in different age groups, as well as for folks with certain lifestyle habits.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As we’ve written about on GeriPal when we were a blog (a decade ago!) It also feels like, I also grew up in med school in a three hospital system. There’s the variation between the hospitals, feels like there’s cultural issues that play a role. Eric: Yeah. Try to really understand what’s happening.

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