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Physician Felons: How to Stay Out of Prison

Pamela Wible MD

Matt – Internist, Ohio When their main doctor left, Matt stepped up to help a friend working at a local detox center by performing exams and continuing Suboxone for opioid-dependent patients—assuming a physician with a DEA waiver had initiated treatment. government convicted him for distributing controlled substances.

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For family medicine workforce, HHS reorganization plan receives a failing grade

Common Sense Family Doctor

While I'm grateful for subspecialists who alleviate pain, rescue patients who are unable to breathe on their own, manage complicated fractures, and replace worn-out hips and knees, the gap between the number of family doctors we need and the number we have keeps getting wider. How can we train more family physicians?