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Bad Docs Give Up Licenses, But Not Medical Practice https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/states-of-disgrace/76584 More than 250 surrender licenses in one state, but still practice in another In Louisiana, Larry Mitchell Isaacs, MD, gave up his medical license in the face of discipline, after he removed an allegedly healthy kidney during what was supposed to be colon surgery. In […]

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US attorney issues warning to physicians over opioid prescriptions https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/11/29/attorney-issues-warning-physicians-who-had-prescribed-opioids-patients-who-have-died/Y8Q8eylIfLZkHuv3MfpIsN/story.html US Attorney Andrew E. Lelling has sent letters to “a number of medical professionals” alerting them that their opioid prescribing practices “have been identified as a source of concern.” In a statement released Thursday, Lelling said that the professionals who received the warning had prescribed […]

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International Stakeholder Community of Pain Experts and Leaders Call for an Urgent Action on Forced Opioid Tapering https://academic.oup.com/painmedicine/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pm/pny228/5218985 Beth D Darnall, PhD David Juurlink, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FAACT, FACMT Robert D Kerns, PhD Sean Mackey, MD, PhD Brent Van Dorsten, PhD Keith Humphreys, PhD Julio A Gonzalez-Sotomayor, MD Andrea Furlan, MD, PhD Adam J Gordon, […]

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Virginia moves to limit mail-order specialty pharmacies following concerns of mishandling medicines for complex conditions https://www.richmond.com/virginia-moves-to-limit-mail-order-pharmacies-following-concerns-of/article_43d79bec-a732-5434-ac0c-bec7e420e246.html Shortly after Loretta Boesing’s son took medication delivered to the family’s home in Missouri on a hot summer day in 2012, he ended up in the hospital as the liver transplant he’d received at the age of 2 began […]

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I sent yours, can you forward mine? Please read 28th amendment Please Read, and forward. This will only take 1 minute to read! 28th Amendment, 35 States and Counting. It will take you less than a minute to read this. If you agree, please pass it on. It’s an idea whose time has come to […]

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Trump Medicare Plan Targets Drugs From AstraZeneca to Roche https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-27/will-donald-trump-stand-up-to-seniors-on-drug-prices The latest proposal from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to let insurers use step therapies, or to drop protections on certain classes of drugs if price increases outpace inflation, may harm a wider circle of drugmakers, ranging from GlaxoSmithKline to Gilead. […]

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Don’t look now… but the Medicare folks who are chronic pain pts are at risk of being sucker punched by their Part D and/or Medicare Advantage programs. Medicare open enrollment period is now open and closes on Dec 7th. CMS has given these FOR PROFIT private insurance companies some dosing guidance on opiate and other […]

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