I16 Proceedings

4/3/2017

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Health Policy Commission Lowers Cost Benchmark

3/31/2017

Patients Thursday, June 15, 2017   Featured Online CME Activities – Risk Management Credit Helping Patients …™ For additional risk management online CME activities, visit www.massmed.org/cme.   This Week in Health Care Bay …

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Vital Signs April 2017 (pdf)

3/30/2017

ACTIVITIES Go to www.massmed.org/cme Risk Management CME Electronic Health Records Education (3 modules …) • Identifying Potential Drug Dependence and Preventing Abuse (Legal Advisor) • Managing Risk when … Risk Management CME Courses • NEW Talking to Patients About Gun Safety • Initiating a Conversation …

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Unproved Hypotheses

3/29/2017

to the overwhelming importance of elevated blood pressure as a risk factor in the development of stroke and coronary … the management of the bulk of disorders now affecting the adult population — hypertension, atherosclerotic … best informed judgments concerning risk and possibility of benefit, and even if all the evidence …

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The New Medical-Industrial Complex

3/29/2017

that specialize in hospital ownership or management; the others are owned by groups of private investors or small … are managed on a contractual basis by one or another of these profit-making hospital corporations … have more efficient management and use fewer employees per bed. It is also said that fewer …

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Swinging Copy and Sober Science

3/29/2017

. At the moment, however, it looks as if the FTC were about to risk more aggressive control of OTC drug … is probably as unpractically utopian as some of the plans suggested for managing advertising in the Journal …

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The Crisis in Ethics, Anno Domini 1979

3/29/2017

managed to form a guild, a trade union, claiming the exclusive right to practice the art. From the tribal … outweigh the risks. But the proof to society will rest on our individual resolve to demonstrate by thought …

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Risk and Responsibility — A Physician's Viewpoint

3/29/2017

Risk and Responsibility — A Physician's Viewpoint … illness, I describe here some observations of risks taken daily by many workers and the responsibility … of his doctor if a worker acquires disease that is occupational. In New England industrial risks …

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On Caring for the Patient with Cancer

3/29/2017

Flint, who spoke "On the Prophylactic Management of Infants and Early Childhood" in 1826. Under … advice before leaving the office, because the risk of dying in a car accident on the way home far exceeds … the risk of dying of cancer in the next year or so! The best thing is to suggest odds and percentages …

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Gastric Surgery

3/28/2017

because their surgical management, either by subtotal gastrectomy or by gastroenterostomy, involves … cavity (Figs. 1 and 2). The management of most of these lesions has been successfully accomplished … to obtain relief by phrenicotomy, but with increased experience in their nonoperative management …

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