We speak with Dr. Barbara Marino, who endured much injustice at the hands of the DEA and DOJ, which remain steadfastly adherent to misguided policies on opioid prescribing.

We follow her story from the initial investigation to the inevitable acquittal.

#DEA #DOJ #opioids #CSA #physician #misconduct #criminal #justice #reform

Daily Remedy courses are now available for public consumption. We offer courses on matters of health and law. Please review the following link to learn more: https://www.daily-remedy.com/courses/

#thedailyremedy #courses #medical #jurisprudence

Dr. Jeffrey Singer and Professor Erec Smith discuss Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives in medical schools - and their potential limitations.

We discuss their latest article: Discrimination and Identity Politics Have No Place in Medical Education.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/04/discrimination-and-identity-politics-have-no-place-in-medical-education/

#diversity #equity #inclusion #medical #education #liberal #critical #race

We discuss the voting power the health issue of abortion carries and how that affects both health policy and healthcare.

We discuss key findings from two prominent polls:

Gallup - https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx#:~:text=Line%20graph%20on%20the%20legality,be%20illegal%20in%20all%20circumstances

KFF Health - https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/poll-finding/kff-health-tracking-poll-march-2024-abortion-in-the-2024-election-and-beyond/

We conclude by discussing the counterintuitive nature of health policy and healthcare.

#abortion #health #policy #healthcare #election #election2024 #trump #biden

Dr. Lynn Webster is a Senior Fellow at the Center for U.S. Policy; Associate Editor, Special Populations Section, Pain Medicine; Chief Medical Officer for PainScript; Author of the award-winning book, The Painful Truth Documentary; and Co-Producer of It Hurts Until You Die.

Dr. Webster is the principal investigator for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) award 5RC2DA028984-02, which is issued under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Webster is board certified in pain medicine, addiction medicine, and anesthesiology. He is also a senior editor of Pain Medicine and a peer reviewer for several professional journals.

The Opioid Risk Tool he developed can be found at the following link: https://nida.nih.gov/sites/default/files/opioidrisktool.pdf

#DEA #pain #addiction #health #policy #patient #care #research

We detail major changes taking place to the website in the coming weeks. And we welcome your input!

To let us know your thoughts, email us at: [email protected].

#dailyremedy1 #medical #learning #perceptions #misinformation #disinformation

My name is Kristen Ogden and I advocate for chronic pain patients. My husband, Louis Ogden, is one of the chronic pain patients I’m talking about. Consider the fact that Louis has suffered from pain since he was a child. Some of you already know the background of our efforts to intervene in the case of DEA vs. Dr. David Bockoff.

If you don’t, we invite you to go first to https://www.daily-remedy.com/as-i-sat-in-court-watching-the-dea/ and to https://www. https://www.daily-remedy.com/a-patients-plea-for-justice/.

If you have pain, or you know someone who does, or fear some day you will have pain, as we all age, then you may want to consider what we’re doing in court. The why of our cause is straightforward. We are seeking justice for doctors to use their skills and justice for pain patients who desperately need relief from unremitting pain. In our fight with the DEA administrator and the relevant courts, we knew we had to retain counsel. When I first spoke to John P. Flannery, a former federal prosecutor, and special counsel on the Hill, and trial lawyer for decades, Mr. Flannery asked what outcome did we wish. Without hesitation, I said, individually and collectively we want the right to be let alone, to have access to pain medications for my husband, Louis, and for all of these patients in the same straits. That’s what we want. Mr. Flannery launched our effort with our full support with a Motion to Intervene in the case of DEA vs. David Bockoff, as “interested persons,” suffering because Dr. Bockoff was cut off summarily from continuing our pain prescriptions. We hoped to get the prescriptions we needed for our unremitting pain, and to exonerate Dr. Bockoff so he could get back to work caring for his patients. Prescriptions for controlled pain medications can only be possible if there’s a qualified pain specialist to write the scrips … preferably one who is knowledgeable, compassionate, and who “gets it” about chronic pain and the patients who suffer from it. We filed the Motion to Intervene, and, as expected, the DEA Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) denied our motion.

Now we need more funds to continue our fight!

#DEA #administrative #law #DOJ #Flannery #opioids #opioid #crisis

Dana Corriel, MD, is a traditionally-trained physician who swapped clinical practice for digital entrepreneurship for innovation. After discovering she had a talent for design; unique content creating, during a short break from clinical medicine, she decided to “pay it forward” in her field of healthcare, and build an online platform that promoted doctors' ideas; businesses. Corriel’s SoMeDocs was born.

Today, she helps individuals AND companies alike to figure out next-steps in the online world. The ultimate mission of her company and work is to promote the autonomy of doctors everywhere, build a strong community of forward-thinking professionals, and provide well-needed networking in her field. To learn more about SoMeDocs, select the following link: https://doctorsonsocialmedia.com/

We discuss Dr. Arthur Lazarus's latest book: Medicine on Fire: A Narrative Travelogue.

https://www.amazon.com/Medicine-Fire-Arthur-Lazarus-MBA/dp/1663257272

Arthur Lazarus is a former Doximity Fellow, a member of the editorial board of the American Association for Physician Leadership, and an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. He is the author of Every Story Counts: Exploring Contemporary Practice Through Narrative Medicine and Medicine on Fire: A Narrative Travelogue.

#lazarus #doximity #medicine #fire

We speak with Miss Tiffany Ryder about her experiences treating patients in rural emergency departments and her thoughts on future trends in direct primary care.

Tiffany Ryder is an NFL Cheerleader turned Emergency Medicine PA and is passionate about facilitating access to affordable primary care. She is a founding partner of Direct Care Connect, a non-profit healthcare delivery model with a vision to provide direct primary care services to underserved and uninsured communities in the US. She writes and speaks frequently on her personal and clinical experiences highlighting the need for expanded access to patient education and services in these populations.

To learn more about her work, select the following link: https://www.tiffanyryder.com/

#tiffanyryder #direct #primary #care #concierge #medicine