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Patient Violence Travels Cross-Setting: From EMS to ED to Inpatient

Physician's Weekly

violent events per 10 encounter-hours—versus 0.35 According to the study, patients less than 18 years old had the highest rates of verbal and physical violence. of inpatient events—almost certainly an underestimate, according to the authors, who also called for systems that link incidents to non-patient perpetrators.

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Didn’t Match into Residency.What are Some of my Options?

Aspiring Minority Doctor

In the event you are unsuccessful at extending your graduation date or securing an internship position, options for practicing medicine tend to become severely limited. After extending your graduation date, the year can be utilized as a research year that can help you enhance your application and build further connections.

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FDA Hosts Webinar for Stage 1 Requirements under LDT Final Rule

FDA Law

This process includes requesting an ESG (electronic submission gateway) account, submitting a “test MDR submission”, and sending FDA a copy of the “pass” acknowledgement (AcK3) to the eMDR help desk to request approval for a production account, all of which can take some time before the laboratory is able to submit MDR electronically.

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Be The Market: How Doctors Should Invest Their Money

The Motivated MD

Diversification works to smooth out risk events in a portfolio so that the gains in some investments help to combat the losses from others. You spend your life dedicated to patient care while still hoping to leave work and have the energy to be mentally and physically present for your families and friends.

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Less than Meets the Eye: LDT Small Entity Compliance Guide Adds Little Insight

FDA Law

FDA regulations define a complaint expansively, to include “any written, electronic, or oral communication that alleges deficiencies related to the identity, quality, durability, reliability, safety, effectiveness, or performance of a device after it is released for distribution.” [2] establish and maintain adverse event files.” [9]

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Episode 213: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 13 – Centering Asian Americans: Racism, Violence, and Health

The Clinical Problem Solvers

difficulty of sending patient messages through the electronic medical record in languages other than English), limited healthcare literacy, and English-only signage on healthcare campuses are just a few of the structurally racist barriers faced by many Asian folks seeking healthcare. Anti-Asian hate crime events during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

And as a resident, I just was drawn, similar to many oncology clinicians and fellows, to just be traumatic and difficult experience of patients with blood cancers during prolonged and intense hospitalizations, where they experience a lot of physical symptoms, emotional trauma related to the diagnoses. ” Right?

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