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Surgery approach may improve survival in advanced ovarian cancer
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Proposed TNM update could shift staging for lung cancers
Lung cancers, particularly those with T1 disease, could be reclassified into a different overall stage if proposed adaptations to the N and M...
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Neoadjuvant durvalumab does not affect surgical outcomes in NSCLC: Study
AEGEAN is one of the first studies looking at immune checkpoint inhibitors in the perioperative settings that demonstrated improved EFS and pCR...
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Atypical antipsychotics no safer than haloperidol for postoperative delirium: Study
“Although there is a lot of evidence in the literature that nonpharmacological methods to address these problems are effective, staff shortages of...
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Your workplace is toxic: Can you make it better?
The two things that tend to plague medical practices most: A culture of fear and someone who is letting ego run the day-to-day.
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Surgery may worsen pleural mesothelioma survival outcomes
The first randomized, controlled trial shows greater mortality than chemotherapy alone, though surgical expertise may be a confounder.
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12 steps to closing your practice without problems
“Many don’t think about compliance issues, patient abandonment, or accounts receivable that they need to keep open to collect from billing, which...
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Blueprint to curb postop opioids after pancreatic resection
Median discharge oral morphine equivalents dropped from 150 mg to 25 mg and then to 0 mg across the progressively refined pathways.
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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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Five ways to avert a malpractice lawsuit with better EHR techniques
Physicians often assume that if they put a note in the electronic chart, others will look for it, but one expert says it’s far more prudent to...
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Domestic violence in health care is real and underreported
Tasked with screening for abuse, medical professionals often struggle to recognize their own experiences of domestic violence and rarely ask for...