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Should doctors refuse to treat obese patients?

World of DTC Marketing

IN BRIEF: Doctors are not required to treat obese patients who won’t do anything to lose weight but the problem is more than reminding patients they need to get exercise and drop pounds. Susan knew she needed to lose weight, especially when her doctor told her that her A1C indicated that she was prediabetic.

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The Battle Between Primary Care and Time: The Doctors are Losing

MedCity News

With most doctors spending less than 15 to 20 minutes with their patients per visit, there is not much time for fact-finding, let alone education for the doctor to learn what preventive screening resources are available for their patients, even if that care is reimbursable by Medicare/Medicaid, such as a lung cancer screening.

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Fostering Better Communication Between COPD Patients and their Doctors—And Why It’s Critical

PM360

Patients living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) need help having earlier, more honest, and more effective conversations with their doctors about their illness. That insight and others came from a Phreesia survey that collected responses from 1,994 COPD patients as they checked in for their doctors’ appointments.

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How to Distribute Content to Doctors (Plus, 7 Tips on Email Marketing to Doctors)

Healthcare Success

Welcome to step four of our “Marketing to Doctors” blog series. market their products and services directly to doctors, physicians, surgeons, and other healthcare professionals. Invest in Email Marketing to Doctors. Doctors are extremely busy. Why email marketing to doctors? Text versus branded HTML.

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Clinigen educates on early access to rare disease therapies

pharmaphorum

On Rare Disease Day, Clinigen has launched a campaign to try to encourage doctors and patients to explore how they can get early access to investigational therapies.

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Increase Providers’ Use of Patient Education with a Modular Approach

PM360

As healthcare champions, we embrace the power of patient education. Education is empowering and transformative— when patients read it. This can be disheartening for those of us dedicated to writing and designing impactful and engaging patient education. Patients don’t have the luxury of time—many need education now.

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The Promise of Generative AI in Mitigating Bias in Continuing Medical Education

PM360

Continuing medical education (CME) is a top priority for healthcare providers in order to maintain their medical licensure, broaden and update their clinical knowledge, hone their skills, feed their curiosity, and ensure patients receive the best care and outcomes. In fact, commercial support accounted for 26% of CME funding in 2022.

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