Pain No Longer a Fifth Vital Sign
The AMA has removed pain as a “fifth vital sign” and it is pissing some people off. This from some pain website:
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The AMA has removed pain as a “fifth vital sign” and it is pissing some people off. This from some pain website:
Continue readingYou know those people who make up 90% of the patients that go to the ER? They are called frequent flyers
Continue readingThe title of article is US could spend $2.6 trillion less on health than original Obamacare estimates and it sounds like
Continue readingAfter the big “Brexit” vote last week, I wondered how leaving the European Union would affect British health care. Of
Continue readingSave the dates for the ultimate bullsh@tathon. It is billed as the “Sessions to Help Optimize Your Patient-Centered Medical Home”
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Continue reading“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill
Continue readingIf you haven’t heard, the AMA came out opposing the whole process of the MOC. Amazing, right? Well, let me
Continue readingThis article in the NY Times exposes, albeit tangentially, some of the misinformation spread around about “food insecurity”. For example:
Continue readingIt is the middle of 2016 and over half of EMRs do not talk to each other. Here is what
Continue readingFile this in the WTF column but the FDA has approved a device called AspireAssist which “consists of a thin tube
Continue readingThe health care system is failing. The assault on the autonomy and integrity – such as it remains – of
Continue readingMore sadness from the Placebo Journal. This was 10 years ago and we thought docs were depressed then?
Continue reading“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldous
Continue readingAre you ready for this? There is again some concern for all the digital warnings being given to doctors by their
Continue readingCalifornia, via Jerry Brown, will become the first state to ask federal officials to allow immigrants here illegally to buy
Continue readingYes, you read the headline right. Forty percent of women are not just overweight, they are obese. And it is
Continue readingThe WSJ recently published an article extolling the benefits of a three-year medical degree and it is just another example
Continue readingIt turns out job satisfaction is not so great for primary care doctors and the AAFP writes as if they
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