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VIDEO: Guidelines for Patient Centered Opioid Prescribing and Optimal FDA-Compliant Disposal of Excess Pills After Inpatient Surgery: A Prospective Clinical Trial. view more
Credit: American College of Surgeons
Key takeaways
Opioid prescribing guideline is unique, taking into account each patient s perception of pain, rather than prescribing opioids based on type of operation.
Surgeons play a pivotal role in minimizing opioid use in their patients by setting expectations for pain management.
Opioid disposal rates dramatically increased because surgeons told patients about specific FDA-compliant methods for pill disposal, the location of a convenient pharmacy drop box, and made a reminder phone call.
Barbara Jobst, MD, PhD. Photo by Mark Washburn
Barbara C. Jobst, MD, Dr. med, has been named the new chair of the Department of Neurology for Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Previously, Jobst served as vice chair of Neurology and section chief of Adult Neurology. She has directed the Epilepsy Center at D-H and is the Louis and Ruth Frank Professor of Neuroscience at Geisel. She succeeds Jeffrey A. Cohen, MD, who retired as department chair in January 2021. Jobst is the first woman to serve as chair of Neurology at D-H and Geisel.
“I am thrilled to be chosen as the next Neurology chair as I see it as an opportunity shape and educate the next generation of neurological researchers and physicians,” Jobst said. “It will be my job to make the department even more successful than it already is, and I am excited to work with my colleagues at D-H and Geisel to achieve that goal.”
BENNINGTON Southwestern Vermont Health Care’s “Medical Matters Weekly” with Trey Dobson, MD, a weekly interactive, multiplatform medical-themed talk show that launched earlier this month, will feature infectious disease specialist
The elite-educated usually do not want to serve other types of population. What the nation and its people need are affordable access to affordable medical schools. These certainly are not by definition “less” than the costly elite versions, but they would fulfil very existing dire needs – for prospective great new doctors, and for under-served populations. An equalizer in the medical field – delivering good doctors for everyone.
Tom says:
The med school dd attended was not “elite” but her four year all-in cost was still over $300k. Her roommates bill was paid in full by the US military (plus a monthly stipend). All that was required of her was to commit to four years of military service. A similar program for under-served communities would certainly be attractive.
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A new collaborative study from researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the University of Washington (UW) and published in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), reveals unexpected insights into how skin exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light can worsen clinical symptoms in autoimmune diseases such as lupus.
Lupus, an autoimmune disease that can cause inflammation of the joints, skin, kidneys, blood cells, brain, heart and lungs, is caused when the immune system attacks its own tissue.
Previous research has established that in up to 80 percent of lupus patients, sunlight exposure can trigger both local skin inflammation and systemic flares, including kidney disease. But little has been understood about the underlying mechanisms that drive this process.