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- Author:
- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
Publish date: November 21, 2023
Investigators retrospectively examined test and referral orders for more than 4,000 patients to see how many complied with recommendations to have ...
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- Author:
- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
Publish date: November 21, 2023
Some employers play on the fact that younger doctors ... tend to be trusting or feel they don’t have negotiation power.
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- Author:
- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
Publish date: November 6, 2023
“It’s important for employers to recognize that seeing patients isn’t the only thing a doctor does and there’s a lot of work in addition to face-to...
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- Author:
- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
Publish date: September 18, 2023
“In our study, we looked at lecanemab and found it can block the activation of the contact system, which could be one of the reasons that it works ...
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- Author:
- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
Publish date: September 6, 2023
Study suggests that patients at risk for suicidal behavior can be identified at an early stage to allow for enhanced monitoring and optimized treat...
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- Author:
- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
Publish date: September 6, 2023
“To reject these gifts would be a slap in the face to the patient, [but] where it gets more ethically cloudy is when a gift is very substantial.”
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- Author:
- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
Publish date: September 1, 2023
After med schools dropped out of the U.S. News and World Report medical school ranking system, a resident decided to create a do-it-yourself altern...
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- Author:
- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
Publish date: August 17, 2023
The findings “could be of particular interest for those patients at extremely high bleeding risk or who are truly intolerant to aspirin, a scenario...
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- Author:
- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
Publish date: August 11, 2023
Symptom reduction is only one component of depression treatment, said Dr. Mark Zimmerman.
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- Author:
- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
Publish date: August 11, 2023
Newly proposed legislation in Canada would expand the indication for medical assistance in dying to include serious mental illness.
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- Author:
- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
Publish date: August 9, 2023
“To my knowledge, that level of [memory] improvement is far greater than anything that has been reported for healthy older adults ...”
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- Author:
- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
Publish date: August 4, 2023
This is the first study to focus on LAAO specifically for those at risk for falling.
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- Author:
- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
Publish date: August 1, 2023
Postoperative cognitive dysfunction is “very likely due to the vulnerable state of mind and the stress that the patients encounter while undergoing...
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- Author:
- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
Publish date: July 24, 2023
The findings could represent “a paradigm shift for the field” because “we always think of starting ADHD treatment with stimulants, but perhaps trea...
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- Author:
- Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW
Publish date: July 21, 2023
“Our findings suggest that it is the volume of activity, rather than the pattern, that matters most.”
