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Do patients follow up on referrals after telehealth visits?
Investigators retrospectively examined test and referral orders for more than 4,000 patients to see how many complied with recommendations to have...
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Before signing an offer letter: Read this
Some employers play on the fact that younger doctors ... tend to be trusting or feel they don’t have negotiation power.
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Patient contact time vs. admin: Is your contract fair?
“It’s important for employers to recognize that seeing patients isn’t the only thing a doctor does and there’s a lot of work in addition to face-...
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How does lecanemab work in Alzheimer’s?
“In our study, we looked at lecanemab and found it can block the activation of the contact system, which could be one of the reasons that it works...
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Suicidal behavior tied to increased all-cause mortality in MDD
Study suggests that patients at risk for suicidal behavior can be identified at an early stage to allow for enhanced monitoring and optimized...
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Your patient bequeathed money to you: Can you accept it?
“To reject these gifts would be a slap in the face to the patient, [but] where it gets more ethically cloudy is when a gift is very substantial...
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Resident creates AI alternative to U.S. News med school ranking
After med schools dropped out of the U.S. News and World Report medical school ranking system, a resident decided to create a do-it-yourself...
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Could colchicine replace aspirin after PCI for ACS?
The findings “could be of particular interest for those patients at extremely high bleeding risk or who are truly intolerant to aspirin, a...
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A better way to measure antidepressant response?
Symptom reduction is only one component of depression treatment, said Dr. Mark Zimmerman.
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Physician-assisted suicide for mental illness – right or wrong?
Newly proposed legislation in Canada would expand the indication for medical assistance in dying to include serious mental illness.
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Inhaling pleasant scents during sleep tied to a dramatic boost in cognition
“To my knowledge, that level of [memory] improvement is far greater than anything that has been reported for healthy older adults ...”
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LAAO tied to fewer post-fall bleeds than DOACs in AF
This is the first study to focus on LAAO specifically for those at risk for falling.
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Cognitive problems transient after AFib ablation
Postoperative cognitive dysfunction is “very likely due to the vulnerable state of mind and the stress that the patients encounter while...
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Nonstimulants: A better option for ADHD?
The findings could represent “a paradigm shift for the field” because “we always think of starting ADHD treatment with stimulants, but perhaps...
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Even exercise by ‘weekend warriors’ can cut CV risk
“Our findings suggest that it is the volume of activity, rather than the pattern, that matters most.”