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One Disease With Many Names: Which One You Use Makes a Difference in the PA Process

A Country Doctor Writes

It’s used in the hospital more often than in outpatient care. So I sent in a prior auth request with the diagnosis of chronic respiratory failure with hypoxemia. It said that the diagnosis I gave them was not a qualifying diagnosis. My application was denied. There, I saw that emphysema qualifies.

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9 Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of Dentistry

The Medical Futurist

For dentists, it’s transforming diagnosis, decision-making, and treatment planning. In comparison, the first VR-recorded surgery was performed at the Royal London Hospital in 2016. Its importance was also highlighted during the COVID-19 crisis to bypass supply chains to meet hospitals’ demands.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

In 2016, The Guardian reported that a blind woman suffering from this disease was fitted with the implant labelled “bionic eye” in the UK as part of a trial at the Oxford Eye Hospital. A year later, the search giant announced they have begun working on integrating the technology into a chain of eye hospitals in India.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . Her most recent book is Creative Care: a revolutionary approach to dementia and elder care . Anne Basting, PhD , a MacArthur Genius Grant awardee and professor (English/Theatre), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Community 101
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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

He then authored a book on burnout in overachievers and another on burnout in women further popularizing the slang word which seeped into common lexicon. Meanwhile physician burnout books and breathing exercises are offered by burnout coaches on every corner. Yet moral injury is not an official diagnosis. Not burnout.

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How frustrating work environment affects empathy in resident doctors?

Tiny Physician

Without even forming an enquiry committee, he was suspended for a few days by the hospital administration in order to satisfy the public. This may result in errors in the diagnosis of the patient whom the doctor was examining initially. A minor section of faculties even asks residents to carry books and bags to their car.

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

GeriPal

We make a diagnosis. If you’re going to be talking to the brand new intern on the service, or the chief executive of the hospital, are there some themes or similarities to how you’d approach that in the mentoring, sorry, not the mentoring, the coaching process? It’s so different from therapy. Beth: Yeah. Greg: Hmm.