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The Most Expensive Medical Condition Is Not What You Think

Forbes Healthcare

Follow Author Jul 11, 2025, 08:30am EDT Share Save Comment Million Dollars Seamless Pattern with USD Dollar Sign. Follow Author Jul 11, 2025, 08:30am EDT Share Save Comment Million Dollars Seamless Pattern with USD Dollar Sign. Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Raining money stack grunge background.

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A Very Tepid Defense of the Physical Exam

Sensible Medicine

Some are even a form of continuing medical education — re-listening to textbook Velcro rales or feeling the goiter that has been present for 20 years. A medical trainee interviews and examines the patient. He discharges the patient with instructions to follow up if necessary. A follow up CMP was normal.

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A review of the newly approved novel non-opioid pain reliever suzetrigine (Journavx)

Sensible Medicine

Last week the FDA approved a novel non-opioid pain medication. A Google search brings up news releases from Vertex , and news coverage—which are essentially the same and lacking links to the evidence. Second, a new pain medication would serve a huge unmet need, because many people begin opioid addition from a post-op opioid.

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This Startup Built A Hospital In India To Test Its AI Software

Forbes Healthcare

Senior editor covering healthcare Follow Author Jul 01, 2025, 06:30am EDT Updated Jul 1, 2025, 10:33am EDT Share Save Comment New drugs take too long to get to market because of clinical trial bottlenecks. Two cancer doctors built AI-enabled tech to speed up the process.

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How medical school fails students

Sensible Medicine

Let me discuss the ways in which medical school fails students. These essays will be about how institutions, particularly academic medical leaders, fail doctors in training. The pre-medical curriculum is tangential to medicine at best. Once students get to medical school we make them memorize loads of irrelevant trivia.

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Keep Your Skills Current: Our Medication Aide Update Class

We Care Online

As a Medication Aide, you play a crucial role in ensuring that residents and patients receive the right medications safely and effectively. Staying up-to-date with the latest practices, regulations, and medication management techniques is essential to providing the highest quality of care.

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Understanding Ethical Standards for Medical Assistants

Prism Career Institute

Medical ethics are the core standards for how a healthcare professional conducts themself. They learn these principles through the education and training they receive as a medical assistant student, as well as other life experiences. Here, we offer insight into the medical ethics to follow while working in a medical assistant career.