Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The worry I have about medical science is that a lot of our experiments produce little to no knowledge. The Trial STRONG-HF studied two treatment strategies after a patient was discharged from the hospital after treatment for heart failure. The primary endpoint (of hospital readmission for HF or death) occurred in 15.2%

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

We discuss in Ending Medical Reversal why we should be suspicious of single center studies. Safety, tolerability and efficacy of up-titration of guideline-directed medical therapies for acute heart failure (STRONG-HF): a multinational, open-label, randomised, trial I’ve come out pretty strongly against GDMT.

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Scrubs

JUNE 29, 2023

Dozens of nursing unions have used this tactic to get hospitals to make concessions. But what happens when the hospital fails to hold up its end of the bargain after the strike is over? Failure to comply with the new staffing requirements led the nurses to seek arbitration to hold the hospital accountable. “We

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Scrubs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

An Oregon hospital, Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center, is embroiled in a $303 million lawsuit following an alarming case of fentanyl theft and medical malpractice. The remaining patients, who survived the ordeal, are part of a collective lawsuit against the hospital . The lawsuit, originally seeking $11.5

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 10, 2025

The Journal of the American Medical Association published an actual randomized controlled trial for coronary artery calcium (CAC). This was a prospective randomized open-label trial done in 7 hospitals in Australia. Better outcomes, such as fewer heart attacks or strokes, or longer life, is why we interact with healthcare.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

RM is a 72-year-old man who comes to the office for routine follow-up of spinal stenosis, hypertension, and peripheral vascular disease. I was obsessed with the sport long before I began telling people, “I want to be a doctor when I grow up.” Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication. It is March.

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Scrubs

JUNE 27, 2023

The teenager was experiencing a range of strange symptoms, including severe pain all over her body, when her mother took her to Johns Hopkins Children’s Hospital. The family sought medical advice from a range of professionals, but none of them could diagnose Kowalski’s condition. I was medically kidnapped.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

You may wonder how my husband lived almost 40 years and had three kids without ever being diagnosed – simple medical bias. If it weren’t for my medical education, we would have never known my children and husband had EDS and MCAS. This is why we must stand up and start advocating for increased diversity in medicine.

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Scrubs

APRIL 5, 2023

Dereck Paul is the co-founder of Glass Health, a start-up in San Francisco that offers artificial intelligence chatbot services to doctors looking to ease the burden of routine processes, such as patient documentation. And now doctors are using it to answer routine clinical questions.

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Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Sensible Medicine aims to give public voice to critical appraisal that is rejected by medical journals. The following deficiencies assume that CHAGASICS was adequately powered—which it was not. The authors erroneously reported a decrease in the use of heart failure medications, when, in fact, their use increased.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

They didn’t write their question that specifically; instead they wrote that their purpose was to investigate the association of deprescribing antihypertensive medication with changes in cognitive function in nursing home residents. This data does not apply to older adults with multiple medical conditions.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

“The Black Angels were a group of African American nurses who were called up from the Jim Crow South between 1929 and1952 to avert a public health crisis set off by white nurses who began quitting Seaview Hospital, New York’s largest municipal TB sanatorium,” Smilios shares.

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Scrubs

MARCH 6, 2023

The cops could see that the woman was in distress and told her she might be having a medical emergency. They escorted her to a local hospital where she was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor before undergoing surgery to have the mass removed. On February 19, 2023, Ms. The officers wrote that she is now doing well and in recovery.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

She meets her existing patients and picks up a new one, Bill. They found a medication that made it harder to induce VT and sent him up to the medical floor for admission and monitoring with instructions to initiate that medication. It was probably the medication.” I was, to put it mildly, not shocked.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Beggs shared the videos on TikTok where she quickly racked up hundreds of thousands of views. She now has over 600k followers on the app. I work 12-hour shifts at the hospital and when that’s over, I go home and work on being an influencer and my business,” said Beggs. In fact, it’s enhancing her knowledge and experience.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

There are many more people competing for slots in medical school and residency and the number of “slots” have increased at a slower pace than the applicants. If applicants are more impressive on paper, but no more impressive in the clinics and hospitals, aren’t we doing something wrong? [ii] programs is even stiffer.

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ACI Medical & Dental School

JANUARY 9, 2025

Our In Demand Career Spotlight Series focuses on careers in the medical and dental industries where demand for skilled workers outpaces supply. At ACI Medical & Dental School, you can be certified for these in-demand careers in just four months with the hands-on training, skills, and credentials youll need for your new job.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 14, 2023

One of the many privileges of being a physician, and a professor of medicine at a “prestigious” medical school, is getting to talk to young people who are considering a career in medicine. What reliably follows is a conversation with a smart, earnest, mature, and absurdly accomplished young adult. I’ve never said no.

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The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

One morning, you wake up to a missed call and a voicemail from your PR leader. You follow up and learn that this wasnt just any employee. The patient safety team moves quickly to investigate, and they discover that the patient was a young woman who had given birth to her first child just two weeks ago at one of your hospitals.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Even though my practice is made up of about 750, overwhelmingly older people, mostly with chronic medical conditions, I only attend to the death of a patient a few times a month. He is otherwise well, with only hypertension, well-controlled on one medication.   I usually see people who die alone in the hospital.

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Sensible Medicine

APRIL 16, 2024

Anyway, this person was telling me about a novel effort to use AI to predict readmission for a certain medical problem. I admit that I do not follow the Medical AI literature closely. I imagined that the tool was picking up more than just vascular calcifications and heart size. The ASCVD calculator is not that accurate.

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ACI Medical & Dental School

JANUARY 14, 2025

Students interested in becoming Medical Assistants are often curious about what the work schedule will be like. Medical Assistants in New Jersey typically work full-time hours , which means they usually work about 40 hours per week. Some Medical Assistants may work part-time, which could range from 20 to 30 hours per week.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

She first became a nurse at Munson Medical Center over 50 years ago and has been providing care at home and abroad ever since. I wasn’t somebody who played with dolls, except my sister’s dolls, and I would line them up in the hallway in our house in California and I would play hospital ship.” That was heartbreaking,” she said.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 17, 2024

Her only active medical issues are hypertension and vitamin D deficiency. So here is a follow up with the unoriginal claim that the most valuable things I have learned from my patients are not about the practice of medicine. Not that she needed time for me to attend to her medical problems. MM is 94 years old.

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Mobius MD

JANUARY 28, 2025

Preventable medical errors are still a serious issue in healthcare, contributing to patient harm, increased costs, and diminished patient trust. A landmark study from Johns Hopkins identified medical errors as the third leading cause of death in the United States, with an estimated 250,000 deaths annually attributed to preventable mistakes.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 31, 2023

Her outpatient follow-up appointments were scheduled; we had reviewed her safety plan; she felt well and ready to leave the hospital. Her hospital course was uneventful, and she made good therapeutic use of her time on the unit. ” As the conversation wrapped up, I started putting the papers back on her bed.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 8, 2024

I asked Anupam Jena if he could run the Medicare analysis on docs with R01s vs those without, but he felt it would be limited by thin data, and also pointed out that what they lost in clinical skills, they might make up for in intelligence. Most have given up the lab, and are largely clinicians or work in other sectors.

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We Care Online

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The digital transformation of healthcare has enabled medical professionals to connect with patients in ways that were unimaginable just a decade ago. This article explores how medical professionals can effectively leverage digital platforms to foster stronger patient relationships and improve outcomes.

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Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Instead of measuring AF with a monitor, like most studies, the authors decided to measure what is most important to patients: time to any hospital episode related to treatment for atrial arrhythmia. IOW: did a patient require medical attention of an arrhythmia. This one hits home. And I enjoyed telling you about it.

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Northwest Career College

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Medical Administrative Assistant is one of the many stable career opportunities in healthcare that dont require studying for many years. If youve been considering a job in the medical field that is cost-effective and time-saving, this blog might be just for you. Handled all insurance forms and also billing-related processes.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Don’t get hung up on the specific medical problem. The medical question comes up pretty often: What to do with moderate anemia (low red blood cell counts) in a patient recovering from a heart attack (myocardial infarction = MI)? (We In the hospital, restrictive transfusion policies are in vogue.

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CollaborateMD

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Despite its significance, the manual processes involved in tackling medical claims are error prone and time-consuming. Join us as we examine how automation revolutionizes medical claims processing accuracy and improves outcomes across the healthcare spectrum. Reducing duplication errors in medical claims documentation.

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The HIPAA Journal

MAY 6, 2024

Marlton, NJ-based Continuum Health Alliance has recently confirmed that it has experienced a security incident that exposed the data of 377,119 patients of its client, Consensus Medical Group, a physician-owned medical group in Evesham, NJ. No financial information or Social Security numbers were present in the file.

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Accepted Blog

MARCH 11, 2025

At what is now Drexel Medical School. The students are broken up into 16 groups. So it’s been moved up a bit. So the basic science portion goes up to the winter break, and then they start the block system which we had before. It’s very, very much focused on small group learning. That’s great.

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Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

Today we review the various viewpoints on Amazon’s announced acquisition of One Medical (ONEM, aka 1life Healthcare) which has been a huge story in both health care trade publications, business news, and mainstream media outlets. Welcome to Day 2 of The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S., bn and MGM Studios for $8.5

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

If patients are having trouble following the latest health recommendations, providers can engage with the community to better understand why these problems persist. Yet, every time they would come into the hospital, we would discharge them with the same plan. I felt at the time there was this sort of revolving door in acute care.

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Mobius MD

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Mobile apps for physicians can enable communication with patients and other providers, enhance medical education, inform clinical decision-making, and streamline documentation. But with thousands of medical apps available for Apple and Android smartphones, where should you start?

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