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Bup-ing Up Residency: A Dose of Change for OUD Care [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective This study aimed to increase educational experiences for residents to increase comfort with diagnosing OUD and prescribing buprenorphine. It included training in OUD diagnosis and management with modules, medication assisted therapy (MAT) clinics, inpatient addiction psychiatry rotations and didactic lectures. Notable, 92.9%

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Associations between tapering or discontinuing opioids and subsequent pain-related primary care visits [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To evaluate the associations between opioid dose tapers with continued opioid use and opioid tapers with discontinuation, and subsequent pain-related utilization primary care visits, ED encounters, and hospitalizations. Study Design: Retrospective cohort study. 1.32) and hospitalizations (aIRR 1.14, 95% CI: 1.03-1.27).

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Rare Diseases: Pathways to accelerating diagnoses 

Myriad Genetics

Recently, the Today Show highlighted Courtney (she asked that only first names be used), who visited 17 different doctors over three years to help diagnose her young son Alex, who she was watching suffer and decline before her eyes. None of them. It was the AI program ChatGPT. References National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD).

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Aftershock in Academia: Assessing COVID-19s Impact on Schizophrenia Patients in Academic Medical Centers [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals with schizophrenia who are admitted to academic medical centers (AMCs) has not been previously reported. Study Design: This retrospective case series analysis utilizes Vizient’s clinical database data. from Oct 2019 to Dec 2023. Mixed models were used for analysis.

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4 Natural Remedies for Hypothyroidism

AMMD

I understand how frustrating it can be to visit doctor after doctor, only to feel dismissed, rushed, or told that lifelong medication is your only option for hypothyroidism. It is possible to support your thyroid naturally, whether you are newly diagnosed, already taking medication, or hoping to prevent your condition from progressing.

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Postural Sway Velocity Effective for Assessing Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy

Physician's Weekly

Traditional DPN Screening Methods Diagnosing and treating DPN has traditionally been a multi-step process. Clinicians obtain a detailed medical history and conduct two screening tests, one assessing small fibers and another for large fibers.

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Medical Music Mondays: Myc Check (Walking Pneumonia)

PEMBlog

It’s kinda hard to diagnose. All of the lyrics are my original creations and inspired by the original work The music was then created on the Udio AI music platform I utilized Adobe Photoshop and Image_Creators AI images on the Poe Platform to create the album art and background images I then edited the final video on Final Cut Pro

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