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

PEMBlog

When should the emergency physician obtain lab tests to medically clear such patients? There is abundant evidence showing that routine lab tests in such patients have a very low yield and are not indicated, in adults as well as in children. Decades ago, psychiatric complaints in the pediatric ED were infrequent.

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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

Javitt — On September 28, 2022, the FDA issued the long anticipated final Clinical Decision Support Software Guidance (CDS Guidance), which replaces the revised draft guidance document from 2019. Interpretation of Statutory Criteria Under the Final Guidance. Other medical information.

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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law Blog

In general, EKRA prohibits, knowingly and willfully, soliciting, receiving, paying or offering kickbacks in exchange for referring to, inducing a referral to, or using the services of a recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory. S&G Labs Haw., 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 220(b)(2).

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

When I started over 20 years ago, saw babies being born, used to do circumcisions in clinics, and then taking care of patients as they got more mature in their life, so to speak, and really loved that. They’re due for cervical cancer screening, that they get that if they are due for a lab test, they get that.

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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law Blog

In general, EKRA prohibits, knowingly and willfully, soliciting, receiving, paying or offering kickbacks in exchange for referring to, inducing a referral to, or using the services of a recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory. S&G Labs Haw., 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 220(b)(2).

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

Pamela Wible MD

During that time, psychologist Herbert Freudenberger volunteered at a New York City free clinic treating addiction. He overheard the term and used it to describe himself and clinic staff in a 1974 article on staff burnout detailing long-term physical and psychological job stress. I’m a systems thinker, a scientist, a doctor.

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

Some family doctors work in a residency training program where they may see patients in the hospital, out of the hospital, and deliver babies. Other family doctors only see patients in their clinics. I love family medicine because as family physicians, we can be trained to provide care for patients in many different settings.