PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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. Laboratory evaluation should be based on individual patient history and exam.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Note that while EKRA was passed as part of a bill to combat the opioid crisis, its definition of “laboratory” applies to lab activities far beyond those involving opioid or other drug testing. These lab tests are performed for physicians, substance abuse treatment centers and other types of organizations. 18 U.S.C. §

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Note that while EKRA was passed as part of a bill to combat the opioid crisis, its definition of “laboratory” applies to lab activities far beyond those involving opioid or other drug testing. These lab tests are performed for physicians, substance abuse treatment centers and other types of organizations. 18 U.S.C. §

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

Psychiatrists define burnout as a job-related dysphoria in an individual without major psychopathy—meaning you’re normal; your job is killing you. Individuals with moral injury may see themselves and the world as immoral and irreparable. Yet moral injury is not an official diagnosis. Now is the time for brutal truth—and action.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

They’re due for cervical cancer screening, that they get that if they are due for a lab test, they get that. When my call center agent speaks to the patient on the phone, they make sure that if they’re due for mammogram, that they get the mammogram. Now you noticed I said everyone but the doctor.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Eric 00:27 So we’re going to be talking about making the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in a primary care setting, not specialty care, but maybe we could talk a little bit about that. So we now have blood tests that can reasonably approximate the degree of amyloid buildup in the brain. I just had lab tests done.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Hypertensive emergency is a clinical diagnosis characterized by a sudden and severe elevation in blood pressure accompanied by signs of acute end-organ dysfunction. Evaluation consists of lab studies, including CBC, CMP, BNP, troponin, UA, UDS, TSH with reflex to T4, and urine pregnancy test for individuals with a uterus.

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