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Physician Felons: How to Stay Out of Prison

Pamela Wible MD

How to protect your medical license, your freedom, and your patients A physician called me just hours before her sentencing for opioid diversion. was taking time off to grieve her beloved physician husband’s suicide when a colleague recommended a part-time telemedicine job. She was grateful for my advice. She declined.

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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. Now is the time to act, dear listeners!

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

The episodes turned both women into advocates for patients and spurred research that made American health care safer. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals. It also has published tools and guidelines to enhance patient safety.