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A Pearl From Medical School

A Country Doctor Writes

I ordered some lab tests, including a sed rate. Before he ever got the test, he ended up in the emergency room with pneumonia. That could have explained the abnormal lab result. It came back at 100 mm, five times the normal limit. I ordered a CT of his abdomen to look for kidney cancer.

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FDA Recalls Chocolate Candies Over Milk Allergy Risk

Physician's Weekly

A lab test later confirmed that the candy contained milk, which was not listed on the ingredient label, CBS News explained in a report. The recall affects six lots of the Christmas seeds variety and 15 lots of the white seed variety. A full list of the affected lot numbers is below.

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You don’t need labs to medically clear a psych patient

PEMBlog

When should the emergency physician obtain lab tests to medically clear such patients? There is abundant evidence showing that routine lab tests in such patients have a very low yield and are not indicated, in adults as well as in children. Decades ago, psychiatric complaints in the pediatric ED were infrequent.

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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law Blog

Clinical treatment facility” is defined as “a medical setting, other than a hospital, that provides detoxification, risk reduction, outpatient treatment and care, residential treatment, or rehabilitation for substance use, pursuant to licensure or certification under State law.” S&G Labs Haw., 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 220(e)(2).

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

And then, so from that point on, I began to look at technology systems, processes for all settings, inpatient, outpatient care at home, a hospital at home. They’re due for cervical cancer screening, that they get that if they are due for a lab test, they get that. Outside of work.

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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law Blog

Clinical treatment facility” is defined as “a medical setting, other than a hospital, that provides detoxification, risk reduction, outpatient treatment and care, residential treatment, or rehabilitation for substance use, pursuant to licensure or certification under State law.” S&G Labs Haw., 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 220(e)(2).

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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

Human rights abuse includes sexual harassment, racism, food/water deprivation, hazing, bullying, pimping, even physical assault—trainees have been hit with knives, punched, and left crying in operating rooms and hospital hallways. I’m a systems thinker, a scientist, a doctor. Primary prevention intervenes before injury (seatbelts).