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Healthcare Chart Notes Set the Stage for Dangerously Skewed Negative Patient Profiles

Careless use of biased language in Healthcare Chart notes gives life to skewed beliefs about patients and the state of their mental and physical health.

Aiding and Abetting a Virus

Viruses are the ultimate freeloaders. The best among them — influenza, smallpox and SARS-CoV-2 — spread easily among human hosts while delivering high mortality...

Once-Resistant Rural Court Officials Begin to Embrace Medications to Treat Addiction

DANDRIDGE, Tenn. — Rachel Solomon and judges hadn’t been on the best of terms. Then Judge O. Duane Slone “dumbfounded” her. Solomon was given...

Putting the Information Back into Informed Consent and Refusal

Health providers must provide adequate information regarding the risks and benefits for informed consent to take place through shared decision-making.