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Blood pressure smartphone app fails to beat standard self-monitoring
Here’s another vote for less screen time.
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Active shooter drills may be harming children, but doctors offer help
Data suggest that realistic active shooter drills in schools can increase depression, anxiety, and stress.
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NYC switching children’s COVID vaccine sites to monkeypox
The city health department said demand for children’s COVID vaccines had been on the downswing at the clinics.
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#ShowMeYourBuns: Social media outrage over nurses’ messy hair policy
“Nurses are running around over 12 hours, sweating in patient rooms, putting on PPE, taking off PPE, saving lives, doing CPR. They don’t even have...
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Should you sell your practice to a private equity firm?
Private equity firms expand practices to receive more favorable reimbursements and achieve economies of scale.
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Saddled with med school debt, yet left out of loan forgiveness plans
Drawing an income line inappropriately restricts those in health care from receiving any forgiveness.
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Pro-life ob.gyns. say Dobbs not end of abortion struggle
Pro-choice groups, including ACOG, worry that the reversal of Roe has provided AAPLOG with an undeserved veneer of medical expertise.
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Patients and doctors trapped in a gray zone when abortion laws and emergency care mandate conflict
Since the Supreme Court erased the constitutional right to abortion in June, Dr. Puterbaugh said these cases put her and doctors like her in an...
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My patient planned to murder me
“The ex-wife and two adult sons were very alarmed by his erratic behavior. She made it very clear that he said he planned to kill me.”
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10 new ways docs could face legal troubles post Roe
Antiabortion legislators in several states are mounting efforts to clamp down on out-of-state abortions, which they view as a legal loophole.
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Ontario MD, Charles Godfrey, who worked until 102, dies
“He possessed a remarkable longevity in his practice, supported by his enduring love for medicine and incredible care for his patients.”