Committee on Environmental and Occupational Health Meeting Minutes - June 6, 2017

6/6/2017

In Attendance: Heather Alker, MD Tedi Begaj, MD Uma Dhanabalan, MD (phone) Richard Koehler, MD Maria Michas, MD (phone) Alan Rodgers, MD Robyn Alie Committee Administrative Business Conflict of Interest Policy Members were asked to complete and return a conflict of interest statement, required o

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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 …

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Prediabetes (pdf)

6/2/2017

will be directed to the MMS CME Certificate Portal where physicians will receive CME credit; others will receive …

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Question 3

5/31/2017

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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 … afternoon adopted a budget amendment directing the Department of Public Health to study whether supervised … to state underpayments One out of every seven direct care staff positions in Massachusetts nursing homes …

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Case 2

5/22/2017

directive, but she did not.  Justin petitioned the court to be appointed as her guardian, but given his …

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Case 1

5/22/2017

a car struck him as he was directing traffic.  Officer Dan knew that something was really wrong.  It …

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Modern Answers to End-of-Life Care

5/22/2017

.  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 … of attorney, and living wills.  Every state has their own procedure for dealing with advance directives …

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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 …

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Historical Context Around End of Life Care

5/18/2017

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

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