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Medicine or Madness?

Blood, Sweat, and Tears

You have to be able to laugh at situations, the system, the government, people and especially yourself (Mostly yourself). I was suprised he had managed for so long. But I was glad no one needed referral. The phone rang, a referral from a clinic so I left to take the call. I’m not sure why.

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How frustrating work environment affects empathy in resident doctors?

Tiny Physician

3], it was found that the resident doctors have to do multiple works simultaneously during their shifts and there had been multiple interruptions while doing each task which could result in errors in patient management. Jishnu Janardhanan (Resident Doctor) In a study done by Patricia et al. [3], patients show their frustration at doctors.

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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law Blog

In general, EKRA prohibits, knowingly and willfully, soliciting, receiving, paying or offering kickbacks in exchange for referring to, inducing a referral to, or using the services of a recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory. The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (“EKRA”). 18 U.S.C. § 220(e)(5). Graves , 2021 U.S.

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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law Blog

In general, EKRA prohibits, knowingly and willfully, soliciting, receiving, paying or offering kickbacks in exchange for referring to, inducing a referral to, or using the services of a recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory. The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (“EKRA”). 18 U.S.C. § 220(e)(5). Graves , 2021 U.S.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

How much of your training was focused on managing substance use disorder training and palliative care? As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. And that’s about half of our referrals. Naheed 15:56 2014.

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

GeriPal

For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. And while it is not an RCT and there really aren’t RCTs about pain management in CKD, there’s just so little known about mechanisms of pain in CKD that we’re just not there yet. We talk about: .

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. Eric: And Susan? And then, we have nonprofits that are community-based organizations.