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Long COVID disability court battles just ‘tip of iceberg’
When it comes to long COVID, completing disability paperwork is increasingly becoming part of standard care for providers.
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When did medicine become a battleground for everything?
As doctors became the enforcers of pandemic public health measures, the line between physicians and public health officials blurred. A lot of the...
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Want to add a new partner to your practice? Here’s what to consider
“Just like with marriage, it can be very difficult, traumatic, and expensive to break up with a partner. So, do your due diligence and take your...
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Long COVID and vaccines: Separating facts from falsehoods
Discussions of vaccination with patients, including those with long COVID, are often fraught and challenging. “There’s a lot of fear that they...
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Mental health questions cut from MD licensing applications in 21 states
Four in 10 physicians said they did not seek help for burnout or depression because they worried that their employer or state medical board would...
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Long COVID ‘brain fog’ confounds doctors, but new research offers hope
Brain fog is among the most common symptoms of long COVID, and also one of the most poorly understood.
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Med students, doctor groups react to SCOTUS affirmative action ban
The opinion does not prohibit universities from considering how race has affected an applicant’s life.
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Placebo effect can be found in a cup of coffee
Plus: Humble shopping carts become diagnostic tools and dirty dentures become homes for respiratory pathogens.
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Should you dismiss a difficult patient?
Even if a reason seems legitimate, that doesn’t make it legal.
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Low-calorie tastes sweeter with a little salt
Plus: Indiana loses its biggest Butt, and sugarless sweeteners lose the aftertaste.
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Cutting-edge nasal tech could usher in a new era of medicine
“The speed of onset can often be as fast as injections, sometimes even faster.”