Every day across the United States and the world, health care providers demonstrate quiet humanity as they deliver patient care during a pandemic. Here are just a few stories that exemplify that from Legacy Care, an independent medical group of...
The treatment of elevated cholesterol, particularly with β-hydroxy β-methylglutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors, commonly known as statins, is measured by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in various different ways. Statin Use...
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the medical humanitarian care organization that has worked for 50 years in conflict zones and on infectious disease outbreaks throughout the world, for the first time in its history has stepped...
In “Truth-Telling, Equity, & Professionalism: Lessons in Leadership from the COVID Frontlines,” James Wright, MD, PhD, MATS, CMD, shared his very personal journey through the COVID-19 pandemic and related how truth-telling was his companion...
Before becoming the president of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, David Nace, MD, MPH, CMD, spoke with some of his predecessors about the role. “They told me about what was involved, and they said I would be perfectly...
After spending two days listening to expert guidance, inspirational stories, research updates, and best practices, the participants in AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine’s “Leadership, Ethics & PALTC Virtual Symposium...
Fear and uncertainty. Dallas Nelson, MD, CMD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Rochester, spoke honestly about her early reactions to COVID-19. During the recent “Leadership, Ethics & PALTC Virtual Symposium” of AMDA – The...
