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You don’t need labs to medically clear a psych patient

PEMBlog

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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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law Blog

220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here. C) the amount billed to or received from, in part or in whole, the health care benefit program from the individuals referred to a particular recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory. S&G Labs Haw., EKRA is codified at 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. §

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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law Blog

220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here. C) the amount billed to or received from, in part or in whole, the health care benefit program from the individuals referred to a particular recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory. S&G Labs Haw., EKRA is codified at 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. §

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The Incredible Shrinking Exemption: FDA Final CDS Guidance Would Significantly Narrow the Scope of Exempt Clinical Decision Support Software Under the Cures Act

FDA Law Blog

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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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

Psychiatrists define burnout as a job-related dysphoria in an individual without major psychopathy—meaning you’re normal; your job is killing you. Individuals with moral injury may see themselves and the world as immoral and irreparable. So why are physicians experiencing physical and mental collapse from overwork?

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

As we’ve written about on GeriPal when we were a blog (a decade ago!) They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging. And so the control room is a contiguous room, but the individual rooms where the patients, the actors and the doctors are separated by a wall.