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Translating complex clinical environments to virtual care: Standards of Care in Virtual Medicine in Canada [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Rapid adoption of virtual care in early 2020, meant there was little time to develop or plan integrated virtual health care services, resulting in an urgency to establish governance for quality-based virtual care in Canada. Ethical, professional and legal requirements were alike for virtual care and in-person settings.

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The impact of COVID-19 on gender-based intimate partner violence : a scoping review [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Increasing government funding, prevention and research were also considered as key solutions in 61.5%, 34.6% Conclusion The adequate funding of IPV prevention and research and an accurate assessment of the victims by the means of telemedicine and health workers' sensitization should be prioritized. and 19% respectively.

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Physician Felons: How to Stay Out of Prison

Pamela Wible MD

Here are 11 unforgettable cases involving my friends & family—with hard lessons learned. was taking time off to grieve her beloved physician husband’s suicide when a colleague recommended a part-time telemedicine job. government convicted him for distributing controlled substances. Her career ended overnight.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

One positive change that came about was the lifting of restrictions around the use of telemedicine. Clinicians could care for patients across state lines, could prescribe opioids without in person visits, could bill at higher rates for telemedicine than previous to the pandemic. The pandemic was horrific in many ways. Joe: Right.