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MAFP E-Newsletter - Summer Edition Part 2

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

Summer Edition - Part 1 - Articles on State & Federal Advocacy efforts, Student Interest, MAFP Member Spotlight, Practice Resources for SUD, Coding & Billing, Coping With Burnout and more! Read Summer Edition - Part 1 - HERE Summer Edition - Part 2 - Includes articles of Student Interest, MAFP Member Spotlight, Practice Resources for SUD, Coding & Billing, Coping With Burnout and more!

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Stump the VitalTalk Communication Experts: Gordon Wood, Holly Yang, Elise Carey

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary Serious illness communication is hard. We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. That’s a hard enough task, given that most of us have never had any communication skills training. It feels nearly impossible if you add another degree of difficulty, whether it be a crying interpreter or a grandchild from another state who shows up a

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Decades Later, Congress Continues Debating the Preserve Access to Affordable Generics (and Biosimilars) Act; But will the Recent Jarkesy SCOTUS Decision Finally Put an End to the Insanity?

FDA Law Blog

By Kurt R. Karst & Michael D. Shumsky — As readers of this blog know ( see, e.g. , here ), the Affordable Generics (and Biosimilars) Act has been floating around in Congress for the better part of two decades. That bill, addressing drug (and later biological product) patent settlement agreements (pejoratively referred to as “reverse payment agreements” by their opponents), was first introduced by Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) in June 2006 as S. 3582 —well before the Biologics Price Competition an