Scope Creep: Serving Many Roles, Health Care Providers Need a Supporting Cast
We need help. If we don’t receive this supporting cast, there might not be anyone left to play the role of health care provider.

Reducing dependency on any single nation must be a federal priority, but it can be accomplished only with industry stakeholder buy-in.
By Scott Burris There’s so much we still don’t know about the prescription opioid problem. The partial remedies advanced so far reflect this: Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, which in essence define the problem as doctor-shopping patients; treatment guidelines, which define the problem as doctors without expertise; and crackdowns on “pill-mills,” which see the issue as…