Jay Joshi

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A consulting firm under fire: Examining a new criminal probe in opioid crisis

Jun 21, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Jay Joshi |Ron Chapman II |Amy Mae Baxter |Richard A. Lawhern

Roughly a month ago, a prestigious consulting firm found itself, once again, in hot water for its involvement in allegedly contributing to the opioid crisis. We saw many of the same headlines competing for the top spot in our inbox. “Justice Department is investing in an elite consulting firm.”“Top management firm under criminal investigation.”Beneath that, we saw a second layer of headlines, with a more scandalous tinge of corporate gossip.
A Friendly Introduction to Machine Learning for Beginners

Jun 11, 2024 | medium.com | Jay Joshi

Introduction Hey everyone, welcome to my first post on Medium! I want to take you on a journey through one of the most trending fields today: machine learning (ML). By the end of this post, you'll have a basic understanding of what ML is, why it is so useful nowadays, and the various algorithms used in ML. Okay, let's check it out!As an ML enthusiast, I started my journey in machine learning during the second year of my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.
Rise of mega payouts: Physicians are now the white whales

Apr 4, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Jay Joshi |Ron Chapman II |Monique Tello |Peter Ubel

In recent years, malpractice attorneys have intensified their efforts to target physicians, becoming more aggressive in their pursuit of legal action. This relentless pursuit can be likened to Captain Ahab’s relentless quest for the white whale in the famous novel Moby Dick. The landscape has become increasingly challenging for physicians, as recent tort reform legislation in numerous states is rolling back the protections they once enjoyed.
Shielding physicians: the untold story of legal preparedness

Jan 11, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Jay Joshi |Monique Tello |Peter Ubel |Ron Chapman II

Federal and state regulators have intensified the scrutiny of physicians in recent years in response to mounting overdose rates and the corresponding rise in mortality. Many in health care see this as a good thing. They would be wrong. Look no further than the many physicians who were acquitted or exonerated after being charged with prescription-related crimes. Their plight tells the untold story of the collateral damage inflicted on medicine as a whole.
Healthcare is Health Justice

Nov 26, 2023 | daily-remedy.com | Jay Joshi

We humans have a tendency not to want to think about the worst. So, I get it that as a society, we have collectively plugged our ears and sang at the top of our lungs to block out the suffering of fellow Americans and the potential for ourselves and our loved ones to experience this suffering when we fall ill. However, as anyone who has been in the American healthcare system with chronic illness or chronic pain in the past fifteen years will tell you, our healthcare system is deeply broken.
A Call to Action for Pain Patients and Advocates

Nov 22, 2023 | daily-remedy.com | Jay Joshi

The Pain Community Must Engage! I Have Goosebumps!EngagementWe have until Dec 4th to submit professional (avoiding emotions and expletives) comments on the DEA’s proposed 2024 controlled substances production quota cuts. In my opinion, we need 100K or more on-point comments to be impactful. With 20 to 40 million pain patients, not counting friends and family members, achieving 100K should be easily achievable.
A Two Headed Monster - State Attorneys General and the Drug Enforcement Agency

Nov 10, 2023 | daily-remedy.com | Jay Joshi

A two headed monster is attacking the supply of FDA approved pain medications. One of the heads is Medusa-like, consisting of 41 state Attorneys General. The other head is our old nemesis, the DEA. Several months ago, thanks to my associate Patricia A Irving RN, I became interested in the significant negative impact of last year’s 41 state AGs’ “Nation-wide Settlement” with the three major distributors (wholesalers) of controlled substances, McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, and Cardinal Health.
How legal liabilities and skewed decision-making plague clinical encounters

Jul 15, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Jay Joshi |Gary Call |Julie Craig |Alex Smith

The opioid crisis continues to ravage communities, and everyone, including politicians and federal agents, has a plan. However, no one has an actual solution. It’s time to examine the crisis from a more detailed perspective: the clinical perceptions that form during a clinical encounter between a physician and a patient. It is here that we see the true effects of opioid policy and understand why they are so ineffective.
Medicine as a Right

May 18, 2023 | sensiblemed.substack.com | Jay Joshi

Before we even get to determining "what healthcare people have a right to" we should first consider whether or not it should be thought of as a right at all. In fact, there are reasons it is not already considered and provided as a right! I cannot speak to other countries, but in the U.S. we enjoy 10 basic rights and none of them involve a right to healthcare (however you define it).
Medicine as a Right

May 18, 2023 | sensiblemed.substack.com | Jay Joshi

I’ve always been partial to the idea that healthcare should be considered a human right. I think we all realize, but as a doctor it is particularly clear to me, that without health nothing matters. It doesn’t much matter if I have a right to assemble if I can’t get out of bed without debilitating pain. My idealism has always gotten a little bogged down, however, when I think about what exactly is the healthcare people have a right to? This piece by Dr. Jay Joshi adds ever further complexity.