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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog

An extended release (“ER”) opioid in legitimate pain management generally accompanies an IR opioid, with patients taking the ER opioid on a set schedule and the IR opioid as needed. Immediate Release Opioids A prescription for immediate release (“IR”) opioids on a set schedule or for a certain length of time. Complaint ¶ 64.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

You won’t be able to diagnose them on history and physical alone. And biochemical testing is really needed in most cases to independently diagnose a specific IEM. So, again, to reinforce, since IEMs have very specific non specific presentations, the goal in the ER is not to specifically diagnose the IEM.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. You and I would listen to a suggested list of diagnoses and say, “That’s a reasonable idea. They had no idea. That’s a reasonable idea.