If You Treat Male Patients, We've got Your Back (And Theirs)

6/2/2017

: An Introduction to Advance Directives End-of-Life Care and Non-Disclosure: Case Study End-of-Life Series (3 … to the Senate budget would direct DPH to partner with law enforcement and medical professionals to study … Your Patients, our speakers will update you on research advances and legislative policy shifts …

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Senate Budget: Strong On Opioids, Weak on Out-of-Network Billing

5/26/2017

would direct the Department of Public Health (DPH) to partner with law enforcement and medical … issues that are important to the Medical Society: The Senate adopted a budget amendment supported … will update you on clinical best practices and research advances affecting four key health issues: male …

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Modern Answers to End-of-Life Care

5/22/2017

close call decisions. The Massachusetts Medical Society advises physicians to discuss advance directives ….  Generally these are referred to as advance directives.  An advance directive gives instructions to health … was competent and of sound mind.  Examples of advance directives are health care proxies, physician orders …

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Historical Context Around End of Life Care

5/18/2017

decisions The right to accept or refuse medical treatment The right to make an advance health care directive … rights, and policies regarding advance health care directives in their state and in the institution … Facilities must inquire as to whether the patient already has an advance health care directive, and make note …

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Incompetent Patients

5/18/2017

preference (if any) (i.e. an advance directive, physician order of life sustaining treatment, health care …, if there is no indication that the patient would refuse care (either through an advanced directive or some other form … to express their preferences to receive or refuse medical treatment: that is, they are entitled to the same …

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Common Mistakes

5/16/2017

, and you must provide reasonable assistance to enable that medical care is received.  Direct Communication … receive equal medical services to those received by a patient without a disability. If an examination does … in a wheelchair is not acceptable if a non-disabled patient would be lying down.  Lacking Medical Equipment …

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2017-2018 MMS State Legislation

5/9/2017

Services Committee.  S.1099 referred to MH/SA Committee.     5. H.3093, S.783 - An Act Improving Medical ….  The purpose of the bill is to expedite the medical decision making process for such patients in order … – and would clarify the important role that advanced care nurses and physician assistants play as part …

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2017 Annual Meeting Special Edition

5/2/2017

to “advance knowledge, uphold ethical and professional standards, and promote medical institutions committed … The 2017 Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, April 27­–29, 2017, brought together hundreds … of physicians, residents, and medical students from across the state to consider specific resolutions on public …

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SIF Report 2017

4/29/2017

, and advance scientific knowledge, maintain a commitment to medical education, make relevant information … of a Pilot Medically Supervised Injection Facility in Massachusetts Report of the Task Force on Opioid … Therapy and Physician Communication APRIL 2017 Establishment of a Pilot Medically Supervised …

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2017 Annual Meeting Combined Votes Referrals (pdf)

4/29/2017

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