Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 26, 2024

What happens to doctors who run unethical clinical trials? Ans: they get praised and promoted In this essay, I am going to explain to you why the recent study CONTACT-2— presented now at a cancer conference— is a problematic trial. Next, I am going to discuss why these trials persist. The reason is that the investigators are rewarded not punished.

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Science Based Medicine

JANUARY 26, 2024

I warned you this would happen. The post Science Based Satire: The CDC’s Unyielding, Unscientific Push to Vaccinate Children Against COVID Caused a Measles Outbreak in Europe first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 26, 2024

As Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA) Week comes to a close, nurses interested in this career or already working as a CRNA are celebrated for the work they do and the dedication to their patients. As the primary professional organization for CRNAs, the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) sponsors the annual CRNA Week and supports nurses in this specialty.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

JANUARY 26, 2024

Whose responsibility it is to obtain informed consent? Informed consent is a fundamentally important concept in medical law. “Patients have the right to receive information and ask questions about recommended treatments so that they can make well-considered decisions about care,” according to the American Medical Association Code of Medical Ethics. 1 “The process of informed consent occurs when communication between a patient and physician results in the patient’s authorization or agreement to u

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 26, 2024

When new graduate nurses enter the labor market, many will clamor for the chance to land a position in new nurse residency programs. Presented as a game that only a lucky few can win, new nurse residencies provide great career-launching benefits for a small cohort of novice nurses. Meanwhile, their less fortunate new grad colleagues take positions where they may be subject to extremely poor (or veritably nonexistent) precepting and essentially set up to sink or swim.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

JANUARY 26, 2024

Whose responsibility it is to obtain informed consent? Informed consent is a fundamentally important concept in medical law. “Patients have the right to receive information and ask questions about recommended treatments so that they can make well-considered decisions about care,” according to the American Medical Association Code of Medical Ethics. 1 “The process of informed consent occurs when communication between a patient and physician results in the patient’s authorization or agreement to u

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Hospital Documentation Discharges Medication 52