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Planned Home Birth - Marty Makary’s Blind Spot

Sensible Medicine

births in 2022, the highest since records began in 1990. Women are increasingly drawn to home birth for its well-documented lower rates of intervention including fewer C-sections, intact perineums, and reduced postpartum hemorrhage.

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For obese kids, the USPSTF recommends diet and exercise; the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends surgery and ozempic

Sensible Medicine

Now let’s compare the two documents. Conclusion In October 2022, while the AAP continued to recommend masking children as young as 2, the group met indoors and did not mask themselves (see pic). From their document. The USPSTF has issued draft guidance that emphasizes diet and exercise. This is Orwellian.

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4 Digital Tools Nurses Can Leverage for Their Next Job Search

Scrubs

According to an Incredible Health survey, 40% of nurses planned to pursue a nursing role elsewhere in 2022. Besides that, this document should also help employers contact you. Burnout and stress have become prevalent across nurses in the US, and this has contributed to their decision to leave their jobs.

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Post #2 Back-to-Sleep Series

Sensible Medicine

In 2022 the CDC paid the AAP to form an expert working group to revise its developmental surveillance checklists. In the resulting document , the working group changed the ages at which children can be expected to reach developmental milestones. Let’s look at 1967 vs. 2022 for the DDST and the CDC: Table 2.

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Practice Managers and patient outcomes – New research highlights their critical role

Practice Index

A review of major NHS policy documents, including the Five Year Forward View (2014), NHS Long-Term Plan (2019) and Fuller Stocktake (2022), reveals that zero mention the role of PMs despite these same reports emphasising the need for leadership in primary care.

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DSM-5 Text Revisions: What Changed, and What Does That Mean for Mental Health Providers?

Valant

(Updated 11/6/2024) In March of 2022, the American Psychological Association (APA) released changes to its diagnostic manual, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition.

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Large Language Models in Medicine: Avoid These Pitfalls

Mobius MD

Healthcare is using large language models (LLMs) to help physicians make decisions, streamline clinical documentation, diagnose medical images, and much more. For example, weve covered how clinicians use AI to streamline clinical documentation and how AI is transforming healthcare behind the scenes. What Are Large Language Models?