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From Numbers to Names: How Concierge Care is Redefining the Doctor-Patient Experience

Concierge Choice Physicians

Many seemed to blame physicians as much as insurers and the government for everything they experience as wrong in healthcare, from long waits to Covid-19. They want time to spend with patients, to find the root cause of illness, provide lifestyle support, and help with treatment compliance. But what can be done?

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Book Review: Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? by Dr. Robert C. Smith

Common Sense Family Doctor

Thus, he argues, physicians were ill-prepared to confront the opioid epidemic, increasing rates of depression and anxiety in conjunction with chronic illness, and the negative effects of COVID-19 on mental health. In Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? This relatively slim volume is divided into three parts.

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NY plan to involuntarily treat mentally ill homeless? Not entirely outrageous, psychiatrist says

Medical Xpress

For years, American cities and towns have struggled with how to address those living on their streets who suffer from mental illness but refuse treatment.

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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

has long disparaged certain vaccines, calling them unsafe and saying that the government officials who regulate them are compromised and corrupt. “Season in and season out,” Schaffner said, “it produces outbreaks of serious respiratory illness that rivals influenza.” Kennedy Jr.,

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From Neural Networks to Human Brains: The Next Tech Leap Has Begun

Physicians News Digest

A Coordinated Global Response Governments and institutions worldwide are investing heavily in brain research. As new discoveries emerge, brain science is poised to become a key driver of the next great era of innovation: the 5th Industrial Revolution. This new era won’t be defined solely by machines or automation.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 4: Safe prehospital transport of the agitated child

PEMBlog

Describe the role of medical control in determining destination and goals of safe transport This episode is a co-production of the Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center whose mission is to minimize morbidity and mortality of acutely ill and injured children across the emergency continuum. Government.

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Second Circuit Agrees that Copay Assistance Programs May Violate the Anti-Kickback Statute

FDA Law Blog

That court granted summary judgment to the government on the APA claim and rejected Pfizer’s narrower reading of the AKS, which would require an element of “corrupt” intent to impose AKS liability. Pfizer, Inc. Department of Health and Human Services et al. July 25, 2022. Pfizer appealed to the Second Circuit.