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  1. Testimony in Support of an Act Relative to Patient Care Access - 2025 HTML

    7/29/2025

    , and urgently needed. H.1705 will help reduce the practice of defensive medicine, lower systemic costs, and most … in the same specialty as the defendant physician and authorizing the Board of Registration in Medicine

  2. Help Prevent Wrongful Malpractice Suits — and Get CME Credits!

    4/3/2025

    . Defense counsel and their clients value the role of the tribunal in the medical liability litigation … in the litigation process allows defense counsel to review the plaintiff’s offer of proof (the ‘facts’ the plaintiff … of medicine in which the (alleged) injury occurred, the physician member of the tribunal must have some …

  3. Dr. Ellen C. Perrin is honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society with its 2024 LGBTQ Health Award

    9/26/2024

    at UMass Medical School and Tufts University School of Medicine, has been honored by the Massachusetts … that overturned the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) -a law that defined marriage as between a man and woman - … to patient care through the New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM Catalyst, and the NEJM Journal Watch family …

  4. The Impact of War on Health, Human Rights, and the Environment Speaker Biographies

    4/17/2024

    Professor, Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School Eric Goralnick, MD, MS, is focused on improving …. He is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the faculty lead … for the Harvard Medical School Civilian Military Collaborative , the emergency medicine lead for the Brigham …

  5. A Global Challenge: Modeling the Effect of Nuclear Weapons on Climate and the Effect of Climate on Nuclear Weapons - Important Interactions

    9/11/2023

    The primary objective of anti-infective drug treatment is to save life in life-threatening illness, and control or clear the infection as safely and rapidly as possible in less serious infections. Prevention of spread and resistance are important secondary considerations. Serial quantitation of the pathogen in

  6. Member Making a Difference - Dr. Vincent C. Smith

    2/23/2023

    University School of Medicine, Vincent C. Smith, MD, MPH, arrived in Massachusetts for residency training … in neonatal-perinatal medicine and in health services research. He also earned a degree at Harvard School of Public … Health in 2003. Dr. Smith has been the division chief of Newborn Medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC …

  7. The Crisis in Professional Liability - There Is a Solution

    9/8/2022

    the practice of defensive medicine, the cost of which has been estimated to be as high as $50 billion per year … and their families. ▪Limit the practice of defensive medicine. ▪Promote the self reporting of errors …. ▪ The current system promotes the practice of defensive medicine, the cost of which has been estimated …

  8. 2021 Informational Reports This is member only content

    8/4/2022


  9. 2021 Complete Delegates Handbook This is member only content

    8/4/2022


  10. Medical Student History Essay Award: Madeline Stewart and Punit Matta (pdf) This is member only content

    8/31/2021


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