DPH Formulary Commission Issues Prescribing Resource

12/9/2016

for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™   Featured Online CME Activities – Risk Management Credit End-of-Life Care … PRA Category 1 Credit™ For additional risk management online CME activities, visit www.massmed.org/cme … drug products that are effective pain management alternatives and have a lesser potential for abuse …

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Massachusetts Medical Society adopts new policies on recreational marijuana, climate change, drug pricing, concussions, epinephrine

12/5/2016

had widespread impacts on human and natural systems, that climate change will amplify existing risks … and create new risks for natural and human systems, and that risks are unevenly distributed and greater … of the adoption of evidence-based, age-specific guidelines on the evaluation and management of concussions for use …

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House of Delegates Interim Meeting Final Votes Combined (PDF)

12/5/2016

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MMS President Dr. James S. Gessner: Advocacy Is Critical

12/2/2016

the risk of addiction versus ensuring adequate pain relief for their patients who truly need help. And we … management since they were made free to all prescribers in May of 2015, and they remain in demand -- and free …

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Helping Patients with COPD Breathe Easier

12/2/2016

This CME-certified online activity is eligible for the designated number of AMA PRA credits listed in the course description.  Physicians who successfully complete the activity are awarded the number of credits for which the activity is designated. Click heading to learn more.

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2016 Interim Meeting: President's Report

12/2/2016

, to create awareness among the physicians of tomorrow about the risks and benefits of pain management.  Our … officials and the public now know that the physician’s challenge is to balance the risk of addiction versus … taken nearly 21,000 of our continuing medical education courses in opioids and pain management since …

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Vital Signs December 2016-January 2017 (pdf)

12/1/2016

is called advanced payment models (APMs). These groups manage risk of varying degrees … for the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine for risk management (RM) study. Middlesex West — Executive …, Boston, MA) ONLINE CME ACTIVITIES Go to www.massmed.org/cme Risk Management CME Electronic Health …

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One Hundred and Fifty Years — From Tallow-Dip to Television

11/14/2016

managed to hold his ragged, unpaid and nigh mutinous troops together, it was moving from the Carolinas … it. This training Sturgis Bigelow had had, and at a meeting on "Wound Management" before the Suffolk …. Are we entirely prepared for this? And are we, in our process of rapid expansion, not running the risk …

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Some Remarks on Therapy for Anemia (PDF)

11/14/2016

of further depression of the granu- locytes is not so great a risk as the danger from the infection when … rapid that irradia- tion is not only useless but detrimental. By con- trast, in the management … obtained with modern x-ray treatment. In the management of acute leukemias, aleukemic leukemias …

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One Hundred and Fifty Years — From Tallow-Dip to Television (PDF)

11/14/2016

. This training SturgisBigelow had had, and at a meeting on "Wound Management" before the Suffolk District Medi- … entirely prepared for this? And are we, in our process of rapid expansion, not run- ning the risk of losing …

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