Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

Reynolds Blog Article Innovative medical practices thrive by embracing change, prioritizing patient care and learning from setbacks to enhance success and satisfaction. Neil Baum, MD Successful practices do not follow others; rather, they make their own paths and follow their own pathways and agendas.

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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

JULY 17, 2022

Kirschenbaum — Last November, we blogged about a provision of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that requires new rebates for discarded amounts of drugs that are covered under Medicare Part B, and that are packaged in a single-dose container or single-use package. million).

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

This matter is the latest in a recent string of large monetary settlements between the government and health care providers involving employee diversion. Lax Controls Provided Employees with Opportunity to Divert. In short, the employees were provided the opportunity to not only commit the crimes but that they went undetected.

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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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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient. Integration of Person-Centered Narratives Into the Electronic Health Record: Study Protocol.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

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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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

This discussion is hosted by Naomi Fields, MD, Chioma Onuoha, and Victor Lopez-Carmen MPH, as they interview Dr. Kozhimannil—the Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Rural Health Research Center.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 16, 2024

Houck — Employee diversion of controlled substances from hospitals has been an issue since at least 1986 when I became a diversion investigator with the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”). A registered nurse also admitted she replaced fentanyl and hydromorphone with saline solution for administration to patients.

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ABIM

JUNE 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. Advanced Practice Providers in the Hematology-Oncology Workforce* Guinevere Z. The following is a summary of the spring meeting.

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ABIM

JUNE 11, 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. The following is a summary of the spring meeting.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Along the way we address: Is this degree of slowed cognitive decline meaningful to patients or care partners? Eric: So patient narrative storytelling, independent of what we call it, I’d like to turn to both of you and just how you got interested in this as a subject. She was a heart failure patient.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

Houck — It seems as though we cannot get through a week without hearing about controlled substance diversion by employees at another hospital or healthcare facility. DEA, Palomar Hospital Pays $250,000 for Diverting Fentanyl ( June 3, 2024 ). DEA, Palomar Hospital Pays $250,000 for Diverting Fentanyl ( June 3, 2024 ).

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. Learn about using the low dose buprenorphine patch: . Give some pleasure.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Direct primary care offers you and your family top-notch health care, and so much more.like a high patient and provider satisfaction with an improved quality of care. Instead, they establish a direct patient-provider relationship, for a flat fee. In some cases, you may be referred to a hospital or specialty service.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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].

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. In one room the physician under study interacts with a white patient-actor, and in another room interacts with a Black patient-actor. Alex: That’s great.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. Shunichi Nakagawa’s Tweet that went viral on responding a patient request to drink ice water before death.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

A NY Times article titled Should Patients Be Allowed to Die From Anorexia ? This is a unique opportunity to join UCSFs vibrant and renowned faculty, teach and mentor future doctors, and make a lasting impact at one of the nations leading safety-net hospitals. For more details, please click here. (AP AP Recruit Job No.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. Liz wrote a fabulous perspectives piece in the NEJM titled “ Deciding on My Dimples ” which talks about her experience as a patient doing shared decision making during neurosurgery for resection of an astrocytoma.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

In further contrast to the United States, MAID in Canada is almost entirely administered by a clinician, whereas in the United States patients must self administer. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Sonu Gaind, who is a Chief of psychiatry and professor at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center at the University of Toronto.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 5, 2024

Sasser SM, Hunt RC, Faul M, Sugerman D, Pearson WS, Dulski T, Wald MM, Jurkovich GJ, Newgard CD, Lerner EB; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Guidelines for field triage of injured patients: recommendations of the National Expert Panel on Field Triage, 2011. Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. MMWR Recomm Rep.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Have you ever had that moment when talking to a patient, when you realized that the phrase you just uttered, which you’ve uttered a hundred times before, came out rote and scripted? And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? Summary Transcript Summary. Yeah, I’ve been there too.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Controlled Substances Staff conducts the scheduling analysis and makes recommendations. Those findings are: The drug’s relative abuse potential to other drugs; Whether the drug has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the U.S. HHS forwards FDA’s analysis and recommendation to DEA.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 11, 2021

We note that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in December that over 81,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the year ending May 2020, the highest number ever recorded during a twelve-month period. They cannot transport patients. 33,861 (June 28, 2021). Overdose Deaths Accelerating During Covid-19 (Dec.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Kit Carney and Dr. Kristen Humphrey discuss gun violence, its impact on our patients and their families, as well as practical tips on advocating for safe storage of firearms, and how we can support victims of violence. I’m Dr. Carney and I am a pediatric resident at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. 2022, March 18).

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Give too much, it may cause harm (even if the higher dose had no significant side effects, it would require patients to take a lot of unnecessary additional pills as well as increase the cost.) So, what is the effective dose of palliative care? Give too little – it may not work. This is Eric Widera. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

This podcast was initially sparked by Josh’s “Note From a Family Meeting” Substack post titled “ Ambivalence in Clinical Decision-Making ,” which discussed Bryanna’s and Jenny’s 2022 article titled “ Two Minds, One Patient: Clearing up Confusion About Ambivalence.” What about ambivalence on the part of the provider?

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion center? Some numbers to back it up: ELNEC has trained more than 48,000 providers in a train the trainer model Over 1.5 Mary Dwyer, who is a lawyer, and bioethicist and assistant professor at Case Western Reserve and University Hospitals. Doing home care?

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

The Attorney General also released DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) opinions providing the rationale and support for the NPRM. Schedules of Controlled Substances: Rescheduling of Marijuana, 89 Fed. 44,597 (May 21, 2024). Basis at 18; NPRM at 44,605. Basis at 45; NPRM at 44,613. Basis at 7-8; NPRM at 44,614.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

In order to heal her patients she first had to heal her ailing profession. Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide. These human rights violations are perpetuated in first-world brand-name hospitals. Pamela Wible soon discovered why. Think about it.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Surrogates often either dont know what patients would want, or think they know but are wrong, or make choices that align with their own preferences rather than the patients. Algorithms using millions of direct observations of a persons behavior to provide an authentic portrait of the way a person lived? Can we do better?

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Below, we provide a snapshot of the three-day event: Update on the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF). Torres also shared that the eSTAR program, which we most recently blogged about here , is being developed with Health Canada.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Controlling Medicare Part D Patient Out-of-Pocket Costs and Total Drug Costs. The Plan supports legislative action to control total drug costs and patient out-of-pocket (“OOP”) costs for Medicare Part D beneficiaries. Controlling Drug Price Increases. Other legislative proposals included improving supply chain transparency.

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