Scrubs

AUGUST 23, 2023

They carry out doctor’s orders, check up on patients throughout the day, and make sure providers have accurate information when looking at the patient’s chart. Nurses may need to refresh their memory of this knowledge every few years to make sure they have the latest and most up to date information. 34 12 votes, 1.9

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 19, 2024

This winter I showed the seminal trials comparing coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) vs medical therapy. The main hypothesis was that CABG would outperform medical therapy in patients with severe coronary disease and impaired ventricular function. We now had disease-modifying medications. These were done in the 1970s and 80s.

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The Healthcare Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Two weeks after my emergency room discharge, I continued to live life as if nothing happened, returning to work without any healthcare follow-up to address my emotional burden. At only nine weeks gestation I had not seen my OB physician yet, but I was able to follow up in the office to talk about my next steps.

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CollaborateMD

DECEMBER 6, 2024

If medical claims management is such a vital part of the healthcare ecosystem, why is it so frustrating? Don’t worry; we’ll also recommend actionable strategies for quick wins and long-term solutions, improving medical claims processing for better results and happier staff. It’s also a big part of accounts receivable.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

years of follow-up, death due to coronary heart disease (CHD) or nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI) was lower in the CTA arm (38% relative; 0.7% In the discussion of the trial, the authors propose that CT scans better identify coronary disease (you can see it) and that led to more medical therapy, which then reduced outcomes.

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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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Sensible Medicine

MAY 28, 2024

The USPSTF claims "screening interventions" decrease the prevalence of depression at six-month follow-up by an odds ratio of 0.60. This number is surprising when we consider the following: A meta-analysis of six RCTs found the benefit of SSRIs, compared to placebo, to be small and statistically insignificant at six months.

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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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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 31, 2025

In the years that followed, I learned of efforts to remove racial identifiers from medical textbooks and test questions. Another critical point is that socially defined race (the only kind) – Black, Asian, European – are terribly inaccurate stand-ins for what medically important variation there is.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

What there was -- courtesy of colleagues from across the country – were cases illustrating needless excess, careless follow-up, poor commitment to clinical care, and the devaluation of primary care that undermines our entire system. 1 What did the medical center do? They did the Zio patch and sleep study.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The worry I have about medical science is that a lot of our experiments produce little to no knowledge. Actual cardiologists performed these visits, which included up-titration of meds, but, also, as Adam correctly notes, patients had MD-level assessments. Because there is a lot more going on than only medical prescribing.

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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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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 10, 2025

The Journal of the American Medical Association published an actual randomized controlled trial for coronary artery calcium (CAC). Trial Results After 3 years of follow-up, the CAC score-informed group showed significantly greater reductions LDL-C levels compared to usual care. I will come back to this.)

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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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Medical Terminology Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Medical language is necessary for those employed in healthcare. It can help you advance your career or prepare for further education in the medical field. Or, if you are seeking to improve communication with your healthcare provider or interpretation of your medical records or healthcare coverage, knowing medical terms can be helpful.

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Health Prime

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Even if it can seem unrelated, medical billing plays a massive role in managing diabetes. By encouraging best practices in medical billing, your practice can ensure financial performance optimization and better patient outcomes. This disease management includes everything from regular check-ups to specialist appointments.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 23, 2025

It seems like many who raise this concern feel that the traditional medical approaches miss the mark and that many (most) illnesses might be prevented with better life choices. As a physician, scientist, wellness/longevity podcaster, and Ironman Triathlete, I strongly support healthy life choices.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 20, 2025

When I first started working in medical education, I was trained to refer to all physicians by “Doctor Lastname;” I was trained to be gracious even when they did not respond to my third email that said “Response Needed” in the subject line; they may be dealing with true life-or-death situations, I was told.

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Scrubs

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Michalski, a 31-year-old nurse practitioner from Portland, Oregon, was an accomplished medical professional working in neurosurgery. Attempted Cover-Up Following her death, the suspect allegedly attempted to conceal his involvement by cleaning the scene of the incident.

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MedQuest College

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Building trust and empathy in diagnostic medical sonography is vital for delivering exceptional patient care. As a diagnostic medical sonographer, you play a crucial role in the healthcare journey by providing accurate imaging that aids in diagnosis and treatment. However, the technical aspects of the job are only part of the equation.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 8, 2025

Medical billing audits are a great tool for achieving compliance and safeguarding revenue. Regular audits help medical practices stay on top of these changes and comply with coding and billing rules defined by the CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) and private payers. Why do these audits matter?

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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. The post Should Doctors Use Chat-GPT to Practice Medicine?

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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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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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CollaborateMD

APRIL 3, 2025

Healthcare practices are often plagued with medical billing compliance questions like: “Am I upcoding?” ” With all of these concerns, it’s vital that providers and billing departments understand and follow the key elements of proper medical billing compliance to run a successful practice.

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EvidenceCare

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The panel featured Jackie Kimmel , Senior Director of Strategy Catalyst for The Health Management Academy , Dr. Adam Fall , Corporate Medical Director of Utilization Management at Erlanger , and Dr. Jeny McNair , President and Chief Physician Advisor at Physician Advisory Services of Med-Metrix.

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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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Health Prime

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The holiday season is a time of joy and celebration, but for medical practices, it can also significantly increase workload. One of the main purposes of medical practices is to achieve more income during the holiday season without additional administrative burden.

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CollaborateMD

MARCH 20, 2025

Whether you’re a physician starting a practice or a healthcare provider working to expand patient access, getting medical insurance credentialing is vital. RELATED ARTICLE: Optimizing Insurance Payer Reimbursement with RCM Services What is Medical Insurance Credentialing? Unfortunately, it’s also a very taxing process.

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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. She said she feels a responsibility to show up for her audience now that she’s built such a devoted following. In fact, it’s enhancing her knowledge and experience.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 3, 2024

” They also “don’t let friends misinterpret the medical literature because they have been blinded by their priors.” We should use this study as a case of how not to design medical trials. This a huge leap from what we cared about and renders the study useless for informing medical practice or policy.

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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. One could also follow the lead of the tech industry and invest in the selection process. Because it is more competitive to get to where they are.

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Health Prime

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Being so close to the New Year, it is of high importance that your medical practice finishes its medical billing in good time. This will go a long way toward your medical practice’s financial health and operational efficiency. Here are three essential tasks to help you wrap up your medical billing for the New Year: 1.

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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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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

AUGUST 4, 2024

I’ve got a pretty stable approach to reading the medical literature. I even have a talk, “keeping up on the literature.” People that tested negative were followed. The follow-up was 11.2 ” I have the JAMA, NEJM, and JAMA IM email me their TOC. The results were striking.

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We Care Online

JANUARY 22, 2025

There are limits, however, that every caregiver or caretaker has to follow in the interest of the profession, the clients safety and for the sake of legality and ethics. Diagnosing medical health conditions or offering medical advice. Using specialized medical equipment, such as ventilators.

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