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ICYMI: What suggestions might you have for clinicians hoping to become more sensitive and responsive to the clinical and psychological burdens of these conditions, particularly #acne scarring? #AADReadingRoom #dermatology
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Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH (), is continuing her push to revamp the agency, creating new offices and leadership positions.
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Unique Patient Identifier Funding Once Again Barred by Congress
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How could high-disease burden patients be converted to low-disease burden patients? #AcuteLymphoblasticLeukemia #CART-Cell #oncology #ASCOReadingRoom
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CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, is continuing her push to revamp the agency, creating new offices and leadership positions, has learned.
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What do you LOVE most about medicine, your job, your patients, medical education, or some other aspect of your career in healthcare?
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"Noncompete clauses ultimately infringe on physician well-being, which then cascades into suboptimal patient care," says in a new #OpEd.
"It is high time this was called out and addressed." bit.ly/3H5GYTB #MedTwitter
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Previously vaccinated adults in the U.S. who have not received the #bivalent #COVID19booster vaccine were often unaware they were eligible, didn't know it was available, or thought they already had immunity, reported of .
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, ADA’s Chief Science and Medical Officer, said in an email to that "We're very much concerned about anything that limits access to effective treatments for diabetes and for those at risk of being diagnosed with diabetes."
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"There is a gap in your work history from June 1990 to July 1990. Can you please explain this?"
...To what nefarious end did I commit that 30 day period of unregulated, unsupervised time without education or productivity?
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The CDC has made some of its biggest changes yet as part of its agency reorg/data modernization efforts. It added some new offices & leadership positions, according to a source who attended an internal staff meeting today
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The FDA is considering switching completely to #bivalent COVID-19 vaccines, including for primary series doses.
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A review of the guidelines and laws that can help nurses make clear decisions about care. #Abortion #Roe #nursingessentials
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"My challenge to #healthcare leaders is to look at your organization and ask if you have a culture which physicians are looking to join or one in which you are concerned about the FTC's rule being implemented."
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Imagine if organizations had a culture focused on competing for doctors instead of fighting to make them stay… #FMRevolution Opinion | Held Hostage: The Toxicity of Physician Noncompete Clauses
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President Biden signed an executive order Sunday giving three members of his cabinet 2 months to report to a White House task force on the barriers U.S. women face when trying to receive a #medicationabortion.
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ICYMI: Current healthcare workers #vaccination rates are 78% across all settings, and reach approximately 92% among those employed in hospital settings. #InfectiousDisease
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I take a dive into the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation in my latest op-ed with
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"Despite its questionable success in the nearly 13 years since its inception, I'm encouraged by the CMS Innovation Center's Strategy Refresh," says @Lcho13.
"While some have called for an end to the program, I say we stick with it."
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Physicians everywhere are tethered to the EHR.
Dr. Mummaneni and I discuss the results from our recent research in an op-Ed
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"The healthcare system has not yet adjusted to this paradigm shift." -- , MD, of , as more and more people are starting to self-manage #abortions outside of the formal medical system.
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"The biggest confounder here is that so many #endometriosis patients have their disease poorly treated." -- , MD, JD, of .
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"We're not a drug company." -- P. J. Brooks, PhD, acting director of the 's division of rare diseases and research innovation, on a project to make #genetherapy more accessible.
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"There is still a pervasive perception that cerebral palsy only occurs in children with a history of prematurity or difficult delivery." -- Mary Dunbar, MD, on the development of a bedside prognostic tool to identify infants at risk for #cerebralpalsy.
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"We avoid #healthcare at our own peril." -- Harvey Kaufman, MD, of , on re-engaging with regular healthcare, such as #cancerscreenings, post-#pandemic.
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"It's like giving the full sandwich rather than giving bread, salami, and tomato, and a little mustard and mayo separately. It's just good to have the whole sandwich ... it's cleaner, it's less messy." -- , of .
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"The first time I experienced it, I thought I had woken up to an earthquake." -- , MD, of , discussing her personal experience with benign paroxysmal positional #vertigo.
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"Every physician without a business education who works in private medical practice leaves approximately $1 million on the table," says Curtis G. Graham, MD, in a new #OpEd.
"Why are physicians excluded from this education?"
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Two #artificialintelligence programs, #ChatGPT and Flan-PaLM, have passed the #USMLE, according to two recent papers published in and , respectively.
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The recently proposed a rule that would ban #noncompete clauses. For employers in the #healthcare sector, there would need to be "a lot of reevaluating ... if this rule actually went into effect," said Michael Elkon, JD, of .
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Ryan Cole, MD, is said to have made "numerous false and misleading statements" during public presentations on the pandemic, COVID vaccines, the use of #ivermectin to treat #COVID, and the effectiveness of masks, according to the : bit.ly/3XpjZd4
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Based on these findings, do you have any suggestions or advice for rheumatologists who might wish to hire and incorporate advance practice providers into their practices with the goal of alleviating their own #workforce shortages? #Rheumatology bit.ly/3XLcc93
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ICYMI: #Adrenocortical carcinoma is a rare cancer with an incidence of one to two per million population per year, with a bimodal distribution and female preponderance. #Endocrinology #ESReadingRoom
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A viral tweet recently posed the question: would the "American Girl Doll Hospital" accept #Medicare & #Medicaid patients?
First-year #medicalstudent Khaqan Ahmad's answer: "Not if doll hospitals operate anything like American urgent care centers."
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Dr. , editor-in-chief of , discusses a new study from Israel outlining the effectiveness of the #bivalentbooster in adults ages 65 and up: bit.ly/3GPKP77 #IDTwitter #MedTwitter
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Every January, some health plans change their #formularies, requiring patients to switch to a different drug. (medpagetoday.com/opinion/patien)
How big of a problem are these medication switches for your practice? #TwitteRx #MedTwitter
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Grateful for ‘s recovery and also still thinking about everyone who witnessed him receive CPR. Can we talk about it? Check out my new piece with
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"Unpaid family caregivers... are the invisible backbone of healthcare systems around the world."
In a new #OpEd, Kirk Taylor, MD, SVP of North American Medical Affairs at , shares advice for building positive relationships with caregivers: bit.ly/3CZtrLT
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ICYMI: Comparison on the efficacy of #deucravacitinib -- an oral tyrosine kinase 2 inhibitor -- with that of #apremilast for the treatment of adults with moderate-to-severe plaque #psoriasis. #AADReadingRoom #dermatology
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