After a lengthy legal battle, the Washington Post has finally been granted access to the DEA Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System (ARCOS). This database has tracked the movement of every single oxycodone and hydrocodone pill in the nation, from manufacturer to pharmacy. Our very own Norton City, distributed 8,263,510 prescription pills from 2006-2012. Sufficient to supply each resident with 305 pills per year.
Check out the DATABASE for a more detailed look at your county/state.
Testimony from a Lebanon woman battling opioid addiction from the young age of 13. Now 25 ½ months into recovery, she is on track to become a peer recovery support specialist. Even though the process is extremely difficult, she wants others to know that “there is hope and there is another side of addiction.”
To read more about her story, click HERE.
SAVE THE DATE! The SWVA Graduate Medical Education Consortium’s 20th Annual Head for the Hills CME Conference at Breaks Interstate Park is on October 17th-19th. About 75 regional primary care providers attend, in addition to residents and nurse practitioners.
To look at the updated schedule and our panel of speakers, click Head for the Hills 2019 Schedule.
A 2016 Study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, found that “only 5% of cancer patients accurately understood their prognoses well enough to make informed decisions about their care.” Take a look at how an internist received the delivery of his pancreatic cancer diagnosis, and why his reflections have led him to advocate for an improvement in communication skills. How the focus can be shifted from trying to “cure a disease to healing a person physically, emotionally and spiritually.”
To read the full article, click HERE.
“The vast majority of patients are not from the culture of biomedicine… Routine clinical encounters are often the times when they are being asked to make major lifestyle changes.” Namratha Kandula, MD delves into Arthur Kleinman’s ‘Patient Explanatory Model’ in this older, but relevant article for all healthcare professionals. Kleinman’s ‘Eight Questions’ will get the insight for how patient’s see themselves, their bodies, and their health.
To read the full article, click HERE.
Head for the Hills 2019 is fast approaching, and this year’s event will be held October 17-19 at the Breaks Interstate Park.
To register for this event, please click HERE.
College can feel like a lonely place, especially if you’re a student of color, a low-income individual, a first-generation youth — or all three. Educator Chitra Aiyar outlines how she encourages her students to cultivate spaces for other marginalized students to connect and help each other grow.
Click HERE, to view this inspiring TED Talk.
