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

12/5/2016

and quality standards for recreational marijuana; and (5) direct adequate funding for health and public health ….  The resolution also directed the MMS to create a resource tool to help physicians respond to the needs … and recreational marijuana for cities and towns. Aid-in-Dying – Delegates approved a resolution directing the MMS …

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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 last six months in several key areas, including those directed at the opioid epidemic, recreational …

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2016 Interim Meeting: President's Report

12/2/2016

of advocacy.   It is inherent in our mission statement and in our strategic direction: “to advocate …, we have also directed our energy to the area of treatment, with an October Summit …

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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 …

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Task Force on Opioid Therapy and Physician Communication Meeting Minutes - November 29, 2016

11/29/2016

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The Appreciation of Medical Politicians

11/16/2016

; as politicians they can hope to determine not only the social and economic directions the profession shall take …. But if the doctor recognizes and co-operates with them he may be able to head them in the direction he believes …

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Medicine and the Doctor in Word and Epigram

11/16/2016

is and would have given us a more direct and obvious lineage. For example, a book written in 1340 chat we would …

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The New England Journal of Medicine and the Massachusetts Medical Society

11/16/2016

England. The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery was the direct ancestor in an unbroken line … of a journal of its own, for it was voted in February, 1812, "That the committee of publication be directed …. This is the new direction in which research must turn, to teach us how to direct our skills into the channels …

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How Specialized Is a Specialty?

11/15/2016

or 1400-odd patients of the 10,000 had tumors. This figure is probably weighted in the opposite direction …" — these specially trained general surgeons should be the men who will direct the first treatment of all …

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