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Scrubs
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
Paul, Minnesota, has announced the erasure of nearly $40 million in medical debt for 32,000 residents. Through a partnership between city and state leaders and medical debt relief organizations, this initiative aims to lift a massive burden off the shoulders of St. Paul can erase millions in medical debt with a much smaller investment.
Sensible Medicine
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
I think most medical research is a waste and often even harmful. Third, medical interventions are often tested with indirect outcomes such as progression free survival. Low quality research is often harmful The current state of medical research is probably quite close to 1994. Adam thought the number was closer to 20%.
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Sensible Medicine
APRIL 30, 2025
The most common question we get asked is: is there a course on how to become better at critically reading medical research. We call our class: How Not to Get Fooled by the Medical Literature. Well, now there is!
Legal Eye on Medical Assisting
APRIL 16, 2025
I recently received the following question: I am reaching out to seek your expertise and clarification regarding the scope of practice for Registered Medical Assistants (RMAs) who are certified through agencies such as American Allied Health, MedCA, American Registry of Medical Assistants, and NPCE.
Sensible Medicine
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
What we expect students to do to get into medical school -- and then match into a desirable residency -- is absurd. They fill the medical literature with meaningless research. I was recently having lunch with a friend who is a first-year medical student, one year behind myself. Why do we do this? Our expectations are harmful.
Legal Eye on Medical Assisting
APRIL 30, 2025
I recently received the following question: In Pennsylvania, are [medical assistants] limited in their scope of practice when in [hospital outpatient department]based ambulatory sites? There is a question from our regulatory team about whether the [Department of Health] recognizes [medical assistants] despite their not being licensed.
Sensible Medicine
JUNE 15, 2024
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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