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A Comprehensive Approach to the Opioid Crisis in Caldwell County, North Carolina [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

County governments are struggling to manage the opioid crisis. We invited all of the people who are touched by the opioid crisis (addicts, family members of addicts, the faith based community, law enforcement, public health officials, county commissioners, EMS personnel, physicians, hospital representatives, the legal community, etc.)

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Permanente Live webinar — Finding success in value-based care

Permanente Medicine

This complimentary virtual event will feature a candid, strategic conversation with national health care leaders as they share their insights and best practices from proven value-based care models to help health systems, physician groups, and health plans navigate this critical transformation. million Kaiser Permanente members.

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Health professionals speak out against the new nuclear arms race

Common Sense Family Doctor

The historical events depicted in the Academy Award–winning film Oppenheimer are no longer just history; at New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, for the first time in decades, the United States has resumed building plutonium cores.

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Geriatric Medicine Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

He emphasized ABIM’s focus on patient-centered standards and promoting high-quality care, as well as ABIM’s commitment to ensuring a diverse governance that reflects the physician and patient population. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N. Above all, they noted the value of evolving definitions and remaining inclusive.

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PhRMA Code Revised in Response to OIG Special Fraud Alert on Speaker Programs

FDA Law

The PhRMA Code is updated periodically to reflect changes in industry norms or, as is likely the case with the latest revision, in response to political pressure or increased scrutiny from the federal government. not friends, significant others, or family members of a speaker or invitee).

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Conflicts, Corruption, Medicine, and Me Part 1

Evergreen Family Medicine

Still, as a physician in my 44th year of practice, the events of the past several years have had a profound effect on the way I think of the care I have been rendering.The CDC and NIH manipulated the government and the willing press into supporting incredibly corrupt behavior.

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Insurance Artificially Inflates Medical Costs

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

From the Detroit News If there’s any more argument to be made about getting third-party insurers — whether government or private insurance — out of most routine health care, here’s one. That is, Savage does not work with third-party payers — government or private insurance, period. And it’s a true story.