DPH Formulary Commission Issues Prescribing Resource

12/9/2016

is intended as a resource for prescribers. It includes over 100 non-opioid medications that are either … a medical student or resident who is worthy of recognition due to cutting edge innovation? Click here … Starting the Conversation about End-of-Life Care with Patients Legal Advisor: An Introduction to Advance …

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House of Delegates Interim Meeting Final Votes Combined (PDF)

12/5/2016

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Interim Meeting 2016: Reference Committee Reports A, B and C

12/2/2016

, That the Massachusetts Medical Society adopt the following adapted 11 policies/directives from the American Medical … and medical marijuana 21 • Direct adequate funding for health and public health interventions 22 related … medication, such as EPIPEN, and 34 the misleading nature of direct to consumer advertising which often leads …

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Interim Meeting 2016: Reference Committee Report B

12/2/2016

Adopt as Amended 2 3 Expansion of MassPAT to Enhance the Medication Reconciliation Process … of some 33 pharmaceutical companies with regard to necessary medication, such as EPIPEN, and 34 … the misleading nature of direct to consumer advertising which often leads to patients 35 asking physicians …

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Vital Signs December 2016-January 2017 (pdf)

12/1/2016

with Patients • Advance Directives (Legal Advisor) • Principles of Palliative Care and Persistent Pain … to medical practices and to better reflect the ongoing changes, MMS Forums Identify Challenges … On October 31, the MMS sponsored a leadership summit on opioid addiction, Medication Assisted Treatment …

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The Appreciation of Medical Politicians

11/16/2016

The Appreciation of Medical Politicians … of this discourse was planted several years ago when the Council of the Massachusetts Medical Society raised … a good councilor, his reply was that he did not want to be a "medical politician." He meant to imply …

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How Specialized Is a Specialty?

11/15/2016

, fellow-members of the Massachusetts Medical Society, ladies and gentlemen: Permit me, first of all, to thank you …. According to Burrage's history of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the first oration was delivered … or 1400-odd patients of the 10,000 had tumors. This figure is probably weighted in the opposite direction …

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

11/14/2016

have so recently been celebrating. When a medical student here in the '90's, I once accompanied … table, or perhaps with no table at all.” And he goes on to give a long list of the medical officers from … to Incorporate certain Physicians by the name of the Massachusetts Medical Society had its first reading before …

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The Practitioner's Need of an Intelligent Skepticism

11/14/2016

definitely to the group over which the medical profession can exert direct control and cure. To understand … medical literature, and I thought, had I the wisdom and choice of words of Jacob Bigelow I might, as he … in the quotation graven in translated form on one of the buildings of the Harvard Medical School, “life is short …

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Some Remarks on Therapy for Anemia (PDF)

11/14/2016

. # # * The remarkable advances in the treatment of anemia of the past decade and a half, when con- … Medical Association. Active commercial preparations of the liver for oral or parenteral use … setts Medical Society, Boston, May 26, 1942. \s=d\Professor of medicine. Harvard Medical School …

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