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Money in Medical Education Makes Me Sad

Sensible Medicine

Examples: patients with new heart failure get coronary angiography; patients with chest pain without evidence of heart attack get stress tests; certain drugs and devices become favored over generics. Practice patterns. Ways of doing things. The curious thing about many therapeutic fashions is their lack of evidentiary support. Less money.

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Optum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire

The Healthcare Blog

Then someone discovered that the largest living thing in the world was actually the 106 acre, 47 thousand tree Pando aspen grove in central Utah, which genetic testing revealed to be a single organism. If true, this would still be between double and triple the size of Permanente Medical Groups.

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Nurse Allegedly Refused to Send an Ambulance for Migrant Child Who Died in Custody

Scrubs

Records show the child suffered from sickle cell anemia and heart disease, but the agency confirmed that Border Patrol officials and medical professionals allegedly repeatedly denied requests to send Reyes Alvarez to a hospital. The family was being held there after Reyes Alvarez tested positive for the flu. near Brownsville, Texas.

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Friday Reflection 32: The Trauma of Not Dying Alone

Sensible Medicine

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. Others are transferred to inpatient hospice centers.

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Post #2 Back-to-Sleep Series

Sensible Medicine

Rather than investigate the potential health implications of delayed milestones, medical authorities seem to have pushed back expectations of those skills. One third of the retained milestones were transferred to different ages; 68% of those transferred were moved to older ages.”

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NEW CE: Inpatient Transfers

NHA Now

While performing patient transfers, patient care technicians are at high risk of these types of injuries. Safe movement bolsters patients’ health and is required for the completion of many personal care tasks, diagnostic testing, and medical procedures. Patients are also at risk for falls and injuries as you assist them.

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Babies with the DNA of Three Different People Born in the U.K.

Scrubs

A medical first is changing the way we think about paternity and genealogy. Once the egg has been fertilized with sperm, it is transferred back into the womb of the mother. “All applications for treatment are assessed on an individual basis against the tests set out in the law and only after independent advice from experts.

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