A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 21, 2025

Cash practices are appearing and evolving to meet patients’ needs without the mandates of Medicare and the private insurance industry, but are in essence duplicating cost and effort because of Obamacare’s insurance mandate. The whole notion of Quality is arbitrary and paternalistic.

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Patients Patient-Centered Hypertension Healthcare 130

Today's Hospitalist

JUNE 7, 2025

Medical societies and hospitals are weighing in on periprocedural concerns in patients taking GLP-1s who need procedures or surgeries. That’s according to two internists who work closely with hospitalized patients who take GLP-1s. “I would not recommend starting a GLP-1 in the hospital.” Nor should they be.

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Hospital Management Diabetes Patients 63

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Why would CBT work for neuropathic pain and diabetes differently than it would work for neuropathic pain and cancer? Eric: This comes down to also like, if I find… As an oncologist, somebody has very high hypertension, is it my role to control that hypertension? Why would that be? That probably happened after the podcast.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

This bill proposes to improve the healthcare decision-making and treatment process for prescriptions and testing by reducing the pre-approval (prior authorization) burdens placed on healthcare providers by health insurance carriers. Lastly, great attention and effort was given to the banning of flavored tobacco products.

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Family Physician Family Medicine DO Primary Care 40