Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 8, 2023

My father was an avid reader of obituaries. Once, when I was a teenager, I told him that his habit of reading them every morning with his cappuccino was weird. At the time, I considered anything I didn’t understand weird, and the word “morbid” wasn’t part of my lexicon. My father, never one to take the bait from his occasionally irksome son, explained that reading obituaries was an excellent way to learn recent history.

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Science Based Medicine

DECEMBER 8, 2023

RSV season is here. So far it's better than last year, which was the absolute worst, but it should have been much better. The roll out of a safe and effective drug that dramatically reduces risk of severe disease was botched, and we still don't know why it happened. The post RSV Seasons is Here, so Where is Our Beyfortus? first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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ACMA Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The Burden of Prior Authorization According to the 2021 American Medical Association survey of physicians, prior authorizations contribute to 93% of patient care delays. If a care delay occurs, it prolongs the patient’s access to the originally prescribed product. Then, there is a delay in better health outcomes and further a delay in improvements of care.

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