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‘Brutal’ plan to restrict palliative radiation during pandemic
April 6, 2020
New guidelines recommend giving palliative radiotherapy only in oncologic emergencies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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No staff COVID-19 diagnoses after plan at Chinese cancer center
April 2, 2020
A cancer center in China has so far managed to protect all patients and staff from COVID-19.
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Maintaining cancer care in the face of COVID-19
April 1, 2020
Oncologists are moving cancer patients to other hospitals, reevaluating the need for cancer treatments, and embracing telemedicine to protect vulnerable patients from COVID-19.
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The Return of the Plague: A Primer on Pandemic Ethics
March 31, 2020
I am writing this editorial on a beautiful day in the high desert of the Southwest: a bright blue clear sky such as you see only in the mountain air, a sun warm and comforting, and birds singing as if they had not a care in the world. Spring has come early as ...
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Wilkie and the VA vs COVID-19: Who’s Winning?
March 27, 2020
As the VA races to address the COVID-19 crisis, Sec. Wilkie faces a battle on multiple fronts.
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Amid hydroxychloroquine hopes, lupus patients face shortages
March 23, 2020
Pharmacists are reporting depleted stocks of the drug, leaving many of the roughly 1.5 million lupus patients across the country unable to get their prescriptions filled. They now face an uncertain future as the public clings to one of the first signs of hope to appear since the coronavirus began sweeping across the U.S.
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Critical care admissions up for pediatric opioid poisonings
February 19, 2020
ORLANDO – Attempted suicide has represented an increasingly large proportion of these severe poisonings.
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Resetting your compensation
February 14, 2020
Hospitalists are earning more and professional revenues are not making up the difference.
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A novel communication framework for inpatient pain management
- Sarah Horman, MD;
- Sarah Richards, MD
December 20, 2019
Spend adequate time to fully visit the patients’ history as it relates to their current pain complaints.
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How should anticoagulation be managed in a patient with cirrhosis?
- Denver E. Buchanan, PharmD, BCPS;
- Raj Sehgal, MD, FHM
October 22, 2019
Patients with chronic liver disease have a risk of VTE similar to (or even greater than) that of general medical patients.