The AMA Can Help Fix the Health Care Shortages it Helped Create
Now is a pivotal time for the American Medical Association to reconsider its aggressive scope of practice lobbying.
Professional Regulation
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Read more: Moving Forward on Tort Reform, Addressing Clinical Negligence Compensation Issues Moving Forward on Tort Reform, Addressing Clinical Negligence Compensation Issues
One area of controversy: whether clinical negligence lawyers are thwarting reform because of their financial interest in the status quo.
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As the American population ages, employers must contend with the growing challenge of cognitive decline in the workplace.
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Simply providing ethics training to health professions students does not ensure that they will make more ethical decisions in practice.
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Read more: There’s More Than Rules in Regulating Concussions There’s More Than Rules in Regulating Concussions
This post considers the application of Lawrence Lessig’s New Chicago School approach to regulation to the prevention of concussions in football.
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Read more: Systemic Failures Need Systemic Solutions: COVID-19 and Macromedical Regulation Systemic Failures Need Systemic Solutions: COVID-19 and Macromedical Regulation
Today’s pandemic destabilized hospital care because hospitals were neither coordinated nor managed systemically in order to meet population demands.
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Read more: Eliminating Barriers to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Eliminating Barriers to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
We know how to prevent overdose deaths, and yet, the majority of individuals with opioid use disorder lack access to the standard of care treatment.
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Read more: NHS Patient Safety: Reflections and Looking Forward NHS Patient Safety: Reflections and Looking Forward
In patient safety terms in the NHS England, there have been positives and negatives over the past year to reflect on.
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Read more: Medical Schools Need to Do More to Reduce Students’ Debt Medical Schools Need to Do More to Reduce Students’ Debt
Today, the average medical student graduates with more than $215,000 of debt from medical school alone.
