I found myself in the privileged position recently of participating in the National Stop the Bleed Research Consensus Conference, at the table…
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By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, March 18, 2019 (HealthDay News) — U.S. emergency departments are seeing a surge in the number…
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Former Physician At Rikers Island Exposes Health Risks Of Incarceration
by Dave Davies March 18, 2019Enlarge this image Dr. Homer Venters, the former head of New York City’s correctional health services, says that inmates held in solitary…
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I haven’t counted how many times this happens every month, but I find it annoying. I send a prescription for a drug…
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Teaching medical professionalism through literature
by Susan Stagno MD and Michael Blackie PhD March 17, 2019There are several traditional ways to teach about professionalism. Some training programs have didactic lectures on this issue. These typically focus on…
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Refuse to accept that burnout is a natural experience in health care
by John Corsino DPT March 17, 2019Burnout is a myth. Dedicated clinicians, working under circumstances that connect their skills and compassion with opportunities to impact patients, won’t experience…
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Physicians can choose not to be powerless against opioid addiction
by Joseph Panerio-Langer MD March 13, 2019I didn’t become a primary care doctor to treat opioid addiction. I wasn’t trained for it. To be honest, it scared me.…
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More than two-thirds of Americans use social media, and 90 percent of adults in the U.S. have a cell phone. With these…