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Now Available on CMEZone
ISSUE: JUNE, 2009
“Improving Evidence-Based, Individualized Care of Patients with Schizophrenia,” a CME monograph, is now available (for review) on CMEZone.com; enter the project number “SR08124” in the keyword field for viewing. Note also that the original monograph misattributed Figure 1; the correct attribution, which has been corrected on CMEZone.com, is:
Adapted with permission from Stahl’s Essential Pharmacology, 3rd Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2008 © Neuroscience Education Institute
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A Care With Words: Exploring the Effects Of Clinician Comments on Patients
ISSUE: JUNE, 2009
Clinicians often speak to patients in ways that appear accurate and informative to them but are wholly insensitive, overly paternalistic and sometimes, frankly, wrong.
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FDA Enacts, Then Amends, Unapproved Opioid Ban
ISSUE: JUNE, 2009
Manufacturing and distribution of high-concentrate morphine sulfate solutions will be allowed under a temporary amendment to the FDA’s decision in March to halt the sale of unapproved opioid pain products. The “enforcement discretion” on behalf of the agency came in response to concern from patients, physicians and health care organizations over a potential shortage of 20 mg/mL morphine sulfate oral solution if the ban was put into effect.
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Coming to Terms With an Autism Diagnosis
ISSUE: JUNE, 2009
About four years ago, I was on a commuter train into New York City reading a book on autism my wife had sneakily stuck in my running bag. I still hadn’t fully accepted Gianni’s pervasive developmental disorder NOS diagnosis, and this was my wife’s less-than-subtle way of telling me to hurry up and do it.
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