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US plans to leave Ebola-infected troops in Africa

Gift link to NYTimes article although this is now being reported widely. Uniformed members of the Public Health Service who contract Ebola in the current outbreak...

Physician here wondering why chain pharmacies make patients all touch the very gross payment pad screen every other sick patient has touched throughout the day

This has always been gross, but this is something I seriously would have thought would have stopped following COVID. Does anyone ever talk about this? Im...

Alabama Board of Medical Examiners warns that "under no circumstances is it permissible for a physician to compound, administer, or dispense a non-FDA approved or research grade peptide to a patient."

https://www.albme.gov/press-release/board-issues-official-notice-concerning-the-prescribing-of-non-fda-approved-research-grade-peptides As far as I know, Alabama is the first state medical board to explicitly comment on the same peptides RFK Jr. loves and wants to...

Any idea how much water and energy is spent generating thousands of superfluous AI EMR summaries each time the chart is open?

Our EPIC has recently been generating AI patient history summaries unprompted each time I open the chart. They are often inaccurate or not pertinent to...