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Working Out – Dan Minter

The Clinical Problem Solvers

If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably found yourself asking that question after listening to a discussant on the podcast arrive at some unexpected diagnosis, only to have the biopsy or lab test prove them right. Were they simply born with superior brains?

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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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Clinical Reasoning Corner: Illness Script

The Clinical Problem Solvers

lab tests, imaging, and/or pathology). Why: The disease mechanism. This will solidify your knowledge of the condition and increase the utility of your Illness script. What: Key diagnostic findings of the disease (e.g., Bonus “Never miss”: features linked to increased mortality and morbidity if the disease is missed.

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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law Blog

220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here. S&G Labs Hawaii, LLC (“S&G Labs”) is a Hawaiian laboratory company that performs various lab testing services including toxicology (for both legal and illicit substances) and COVID testing. S&G Labs Haw., EKRA is codified at 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. S&G Labs Hawaii, LLC (“S&G Labs”) is a Hawaiian laboratory company that performs various lab testing services including toxicology (for both legal and illicit substances) and COVID testing. S&G Labs Haw., EKRA is codified at 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

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?