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The Most Engaging Decision You’ll Read All Year – Five Stars

FDA Law

Koblitz — You know a court decision is going to be worth reading when the judges compare FDA’s regulatory governance of flavored e-cigarettes to a Shakespearean gaslighting. Let’s just say, the smackdown—er, decision—eviscerates FDA’s approach to regulating flavored e-cigarettes. By David B. Clissold & Sara W.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. On bias and trauma as you.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

But I think what we’re missing a lot of information on what Joe is talking about is just how much variation there is in that within both non-profit and for-profit, and I think these issues are coming up in non-profit hospices as well, and we just don’t have the data because the information is not reported to anybody.

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Ding Dong is the Skinny Label (Effectively) Dead?

FDA Law

Typically, generic sponsors carve out a patent-protected indication or patient population, but technically, any method of use can be carved out as long as FDA determines that the product can still be used safely and effectively without the patent-protected information. The catch is, as we have learned from the GSK v.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information. Eric 42:11 But how much of it is like Winston Churchill, like, democracy is the worst form of government.

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

GeriPal

It was specific to the relationship with the patient, the patient’s social context in which they might take this information. I don’t need to know how to bill, to enter encounter information to code. I think a lot of back office function, predicting ER loads and OR loads to do better scheduling of staff.