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Citational Racism: How Leading Medical Journals Reproduce Segregation in American Medical Knowledge

Bill of Health

After its founding in 1847, the AMA notably sidestepped the issue of integration by making membership for Black physicians contingent on state medical society membership. After decades of exclusion, Black physicians founded the National Medical Association (NMA) in Atlanta, Georgia in 1895. A partial reckoning.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

Overall, 75% of consumers trust medical doctors, and 69% trust nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Specifically, 52% would trust diagnoses or treatments determined by a physician supported by an intelligent machine (IM)/AI; and, 31% would trust diagnoses or treatments determined entirely by IM/AI.

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Illinois Implements New Regulations That Allow Psychologists to Prescribe

Pharmacy Law Blog

Therefore, their patients have been unable to obtain psychotropic medications to treat their mental illnesses without seeing a physician, or in some cases a nurse practitioner or physician assistant with prescribing authority. The collaborative physician is not required to be a psychiatrist. In particular: 1.

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20 Tips to Help You Survive Facing Peer Review for Your Hospital Clinical Privileges-Part 2 of 2

Pharmacy Law Blog

Remember, future reviews of your statement may not be physicians (e.g., 13. It is never too early to engage experienced health car legal counsel to assist you in such matter. For more information, read one of my prior blogs on peer review , avoiding the disruptive physician label and clinical privileges.

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Little Known Facts About State and DOH Investigations That Could Save Your Professional License

Pharmacy Law Blog

To learn more about how The Health Law Firm can assist you if you find yourself in this situation, click here. To learn more on how to protect your medical license, click here to read one of my prior blogs. Contact Health Law Attorneys Experienced with Investigations of Health Professionals Today.

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Little Known Facts About State and DOH Investigations That Could Save Your Professional License

Pharmacy Law Blog

To learn more about how The Health Law Firm can assist you if you find yourself in this situation, click here. To learn more on how to protect your medical license, click here to read one of my prior blogs. Contact Health Law Attorneys Experienced with Investigations of Health Professionals Today.

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Florida Woman Lands Herself 6.5 Years in Prison, Owes $45 Million for Medicare Fraud Scheme

Pharmacy Law Blog

“We conclude that the defendant in this case has a Sixth Amendment right to use her own ‘innocent’ property to pay a reasonable fee for the assistance of counsel,” Justice Breyer wrote for the plurality. Justice Clarence Thomas concurred in a separate opinion. Its main office is in the Orlando, Florida area.

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