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The Craziest Medical Bills

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Patients around the country are getting stuck with enormous medical bills as hospitals continue to mark up the cost of their services, including those for routine medical procedures and advanced surgeries. For many patients and families, rising medical bills can be a nightmare. She soon underwent heart bypass surgery.

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Nursing Quiz to Test Your Medical Skills

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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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When Bias Turns Deadly: How Medical Bias Killed My 5-Year-Old Daughter

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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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Should Doctors Use Chat-GPT to Practice Medicine?

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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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How One Nurse Made $2 Million in Two Years Selling Study Sheets Online

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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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3 Providers on Why They Use TikTok and How It’s Affected Their Practice

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Professionals use these mediums to highlight all kinds of issues from unsafe staffing levels, common medical conditions, and even end-of-life care. Several social media influencers in the medical field are speaking out about what drove them to the platform and why they feel the need to continue to post.

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How medical school fails students

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Let me discuss the ways in which medical school fails students. These essays will be about how institutions, particularly academic medical leaders, fail doctors in training. The pre-medical curriculum is tangential to medicine at best. Once students get to medical school we make them memorize loads of irrelevant trivia.