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Employers use patient assistance programs to offset their own costs
Some insurers and employers are tapping into assistance programs meant for individual patients. The concern: Some costly drugs could be harder for...
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Joint replacements: Should there be BMI cutoffs?
Patients with a high BMI are at a greater risk for complications during and after surgery, but some experts argue that strict BMI cutoffs are...
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Florida doc dies by suicide after allegedly drugging and raping patients
A Collier County Sheriff’s deputy found the internist’s body near his Naples home with a gunshot...
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Women docs: How your next job contract can reflect your real goals
“I found that navigating contracts from the standpoint of a woman still in childbearing years was a little disappointing and challenging,”
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How blunt is too blunt for informed consent?
There’s a fine line between providing enough information on the risks and benefits of a particular treatment and knowing you’ve explained it well...
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Analysis of doctors’ EHR email finds infrequent but notable hostility
Researchers were struck by the hostility of negative sentiment in some emails to physicians.
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Looking for a healthy meat substitute? Consider the potato
Plus: The beginning of the end for “monkeypox,” dancing without hearing, and fighting without doctors … and socks.
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More vaccinated people dying of COVID as fewer get booster shots
But the case for the effectiveness of vaccines and boosters versus skipping the shots remains strong.
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Don’t call me ‘Dr.,’ say some physicians – but most prefer the title
Doctor says getting on a first-name basis with his patients is integral to delivering the best care.
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Wide variance described in lab monitoring of conventional synthetic DMARDs
“The take-home message of this study is that everyone is doing something different, which means that the system likely has a lot of low-value...
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Nurse practitioner fined $20k for advertising herself as ‘Doctor Sarah’
Sarah Erny agreed to refrain from referring to herself as a doctor in her practice and on social media.