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Clear Search
Bed in the back of an ambulance.
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3 MIN READ

Ethics module helps doctors navigate efforts to boost organ donation

The interactive tool identifies efforts to increase donation, describes key ethical considerations and shows physicians ways to apply the ethical principles.

Ethics
#Best of 2017 Reinventing Burnout
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4 MIN READ

Physician well-being again a burning topic in 2017

Burnout has received growing attention, with more health care organizations starting to find solutions that address problem’s system-level causes. 

Physician Health
Doctor in discussion with patient.
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5 MIN READ

Informed consent: How do physicians frame the discussion?

A new e-learning module on informed consent tells physicians what they need to know about this essential discussion with patients or surrogates.

Ethics
Doctor takes patients weight.
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5 MIN READ

Identifying, treating prediabetes is key to healthier nation

Diabetes care should start with diabetes prevention. Find out more about the resources now available to help stave off the condition in at-risk patients.

Diabetes
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5 MIN READ

AMA: Eliminate burdens for controlled substances’ e-prescribing

Delegates also push for effective opioid-use disorder in jails and prisons and emergency naloxone in public settings.

Interim Meeting
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5 MIN READ

9 organizational changes that lead to physician satisfaction

Health care organizations can cut burnout’s costs by creating cultures of wellness, improving practice efficiency and supporting self-care.

Sustainability
Marie T. Brown, MD, and team, an internal medicine specialist at Rush University Medical Center.
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7 MIN READ

Teamwork, empathic approach help clinic double vaccination rate

With flu season getting underway, find out how this Midwestern primary care practice mastered the task of adult immunization.

Public Health
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3 MIN READ

When a colleague is impaired, how should physicians respond?

An education module offers insight into the ethics of physician impairment and wellness.   

Ethics
Vector image of tablet asking about prediabetes.
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6 MIN READ

Tablets entice clinic’s patients to discover their diabetes risk

The San Bernardino Medical Group says goodbye to outdated magazines and hello to new technology that helps patients learn about diabetes prevention.

Diabetes