Massachusetts Medical Society & Alliance Charitable Foundation awards grants to health-focused organizations

5/18/2018

has given $20,000 to the Amherst Survival Center’s health program. Funding will be directed toward … Vision Clinic at the Cotting School (Lexington), the Sharewood Project (Malden), New Directions …

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Shared Decision Making: Essential Skills for Prostate, Lung & Breast Cancer Screening

5/17/2018

4294981842 For patients, making decisions about getting screening tests for cancer involves weighing the benefits of early cancer detection and the possible harms.  The benefit is reduced risk of death from the cancer. Harms include over-diagnosis with associated over-treatment, the adverse effects of unnecessar

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Conflict of Interest Text Only 2018-2019

5/14/2018

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OMSS Election Process and Organizational Guidelines

5/10/2018

of the Organized Medical Staff Section to direct the programs and activities of the section, subject … duties and responsibilities: A. CHAIR. The Chair shall direct the activities of the MMS-OMSS …

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Lorraine M. Schratz, M.D. is honored by Bristol North District Medical Society as 2018 Community Clinician of the Year

5/8/2018

on community pediatric cardiology, but has always enjoyed direct patient care the most. She is the pediatric …

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Interoperability and the Mass HiWay

5/7/2018

by sending/receiving HIway Direct messages over a four-year cycle or be subject to a monetary penalty …

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The Evolution of Death: Bioethicists’ Ongoing Effort to Define End of Life

5/1/2018

, while others lean in the opposite direction, focusing on concepts of irreversible consciousness …

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Case in Microethics: Is It OK to Hug Your Patient?

5/1/2018

awareness. Rev. Rimer, who directs spiritual care and education at BIDMC and cares for a diverse population …

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Hiding in Plain Sight: How Clinical Ethics Shape Everyday Care

5/1/2018

also directs the ethics program at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, interviewed physicians for a book …

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Vital Signs May 2018 (pdf)

4/30/2018

, MD, professor of population medicine and psychiatry at HMS. Dr. Sabin, who also directs … of brain death, while others lean in the opposite direction, focus- ing on concepts of irreversible … not, such as cultural awareness. Rev. Rimer, who directs spiritual care and education at BIDMC …

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