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1 month ago | 
kevinmd.com | Scott Abramson |Michael McGuire |Cindy Thompson |Michele Luckenbaugh
Perhaps almost as important as our history-taking, our diagnosis, and our care of patients are the words we use to communicate that history-taking, that diagnosis, and that care. Scenario one: the not so goodA while ago, I happened to witness a family hospital conference about their dad’s new diagnosis of cancer. There were ten family members present, all very devoted and concerned, though not particularly medically sophisticated.
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2 months ago | 
kevinmd.com | Muhamad Aly Rifai |Scott Abramson |Brian Jackson |Shetal Shah
Congress passed the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996. This federal regulation was aimed at maintaining the privacy of medical records while ensuring the smooth flow of medical information pertinent to patient care. Penalties assessed for violations of the HIPAA Act mostly involve financial penalties (between $25,000 per violation up to $100,000 per violation).
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
ausdoc.com.au | Scott Abramson
Bring me flowers now while I’m living. I don’t need your love when I’m gone. Don’t spend time, tears and money on my old breathless body. If your heart is them flowers, bring ’em on. These are the words of that great philosopher and country music singer, Tanya Tucker. × If this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password here. Remember MeForgot Password? Having trouble logging in? Back to sign in
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Scott Abramson
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Scott Abramson |Pat Rich |Jennifer Sweeney |Casey Paul Schukow
When I was a teenager, I worked summer nights at the Funtown Amusement Park on the south side of Atlanta, Georgia. After work, as I drove home to the north side of Atlanta, I had to pass through “Cabbagetown.” In the early 1960s, during the days of segregation in the South, Cabbagetown was a shantytown neighborhood inhabited by tough, white folks who worked at the nearby Fulton Cotton Mills.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
jewishtimes.com | Scott Abramson
By Scott AbramsonAs the specter of escalation in the Middle East looms ever larger, it’s well worth remembering that the government of Iran doesn’t represent those it presumes to speak for: the people of Iran. Many Iranians believe their government is more interested in starting fires abroad than in putting out the inferno at home.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
clevelandjewishnews.com | Scott Abramson
As the specter of escalation in the Middle East looms ever larger, it’s well worth remembering that the government of Iran doesn’t represent those it presumes to speak for: the people of Iran. Many Iranians believe their government is more interested in starting fires abroad than putting out the inferno at home. In its neverending war against Israel, Iran prefers to use Arab clients, but Iranians pay a price for this belligerency in other ways—not least literally.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
kevinmd.com | Scott Abramson |Janice Phillips |Katie Boston-Leary |Kellie Stecher
Howera is a twenty-nine-year-old Ethiopian woman. She saw me in the neurology clinic for headaches. Two years previously, she had come to America to join her husband. Since her arrival, he beat her physically and abused her sexually. Being a stranger in a strange land and not speaking English, she suffered in silence. Finally, she could take it no longer. She ran away. For the past six months, she had been living in a battered women’s shelter. She was working as a cook at McDonald’s.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
mosaicmagazine.com | Scott Abramson |Haviv Rettig Gur |Jonathan Silver
Why did Israel’s intelligence agencies fail to prepare for the attacks of October 7? Why were warnings ignored? Why didn’t the defensive measures in place work? Could the IDF have responded more quickly, and more effectively, once disaster struck? And how did the political and military establishment convince itself that Hamas was deterred in the first place? These questions have plagued Israelis, and many others, since October 7.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
mosaicmagazine.com | Scott Abramson
“In the post-October Israeli reality, things are illuminated many times more brightly.”—Aharon Amir, “Toward the Second Republic,” April 1974Ever since Israelis first learned on October 7 that disaster was upon them, their minds have been awhirl with questions. Why was the government so slow to respond? How was the border breached with such ease?
