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Golden Rule: In memory of Robert ‘Bob’ Mason http://helenair.com/news/opinion/golden-rule/article_b5ad0c5d-ef3e-59d4-9921-9b8eb3bd31e5.html Last week, like many other recently, saw a couple of twists and turns in the “ongoing saga” of “embattled” Helena physician Mark Ibsen. On Tuesday, the state board of medical examiners indefinitely suspended his medical license on the grounds of failure to meet standards of care […]
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A physician’s open letter to Medicare patients http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2015/11/a-physicians-open-letter-to-medicare-patients.html#comments Dear patients, This is a hard letter to write, but it is important that you know about a major change that is coming for both of us in 2017, just a short year away. As you recall, last year I left a large hospital group practice and […]
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Your suffering/pain management – or lack of pain management – during your hospitalization should not be a measurement of patient satisfaction about their care in the hospital ? March 28, 2016 The Honorable Sylvia Mathews Burwell Secretary, Department of Health & Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20201 Dear Madam Secretary: Prescription drug […]
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Thousands of drug users are rescuing one another with antidote naloxone https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/thousands-of-drug-users-are-saving-each-other-with-antidote-naloxone/2015/11/22/d1f2e408-87df-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html?tid=a_inl BALTIMORE — Deep into a three-day heroin binge at a local hotel, Samantha told the newbie he was shooting too much. He wasn’t accustomed to heroin, she said, and hadn’t waited long enough since his last injection. “But he didn’t listen,” she said. […]
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