WTF stories to docs

Drudge has a  headline saying one Democrat said he hasn't read the 10 000 pages of regulations, but presumably docs will have to do so or risk a raid from the FBI?

So the AMA (which emails me but I don't belong to them anymore) has a email telling you these stories:

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Hello Nancy Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 Special Feature Learn more This Week's News Senators call for one-year EHR meaningful use extension More than a dozen senators are urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to issue a one-year extension to medical professionals who are not yet ready to make the leap from Stage 1 to Stage 2 of the ... Read more This Week's News Get ready for ICD-10; code set compliance deadline one year away While the AMA continues its efforts to stop ICD-10 in its tracks, physicians should be prepared for implementation of the massive new code set. The compliance deadline now is less than one year away: Oct. 1, 2014 ... Read more This Week's News FDA's new opioid labeling rules aim to promote safety in use of risky drugs As deaths from prescription painkiller overdoses continue to be a significant public health issue, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued new requirements for manufacturers of extended-release and ... Read more On the Road with Dr. Hoven Improving U.S. health: The heart of the matter If we are to improve the health of our nation, we must address the heart of the matter: Helping people when and where they need it the most to prevent disease and foster healthy lives. Read more For Physicians Fix Medicare Now: Make sure Congress gets the message Join your colleagues throughout the country in putting concerted pressure on members of Congress to reform the Medicare physician ... Read more For Physicians In an integrated practice? New AMA section is for you If you're in a physician-led integrated care organization, plan to attend the first interim business meeting of the AMA's Integrated ... Read more Practice News Help your patients obtain affordable health coverage Open enrollment on the new health insurance marketplaces began Tuesday. Take two simple steps to help your patients ... Read more Practice News CME: How to assess, treat pain in children A newly updated continuing medical education (CME) program from the AMA can help physicians strike an appropriate balance ... Read more Product Showcase CPT® and RBRVS Annual Symposium Nov. 13–15 in Chicago Join your colleagues at the industry's premier coding and reimbursement event. Learn from, and network with, experts on CPT®, the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) and Medicare payment policy. Learn more The JAMA Report Hormone therapy risks outweigh benefits for chronic disease A new study looks at the long-term effects of hormone therapy on a variety of diseases in menopausal and post-menopausal women. Watch the video Virtual Mentor New issue of AMA online ethics journal grapples with mental illness and the law Physicians caring for people with mental illness often encounter a conflict between putting those patients' interests first and preventing harm to them or others. Virtual Mentor explores this and related issues. Read more For Minority Physicians October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers affecting American women, second to lung cancer as a leading cause of cancer death among women. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rate of women ... Read more For Minority Physicians Study looks at cancer-related risk factors among Hispanics Did you know that more than one-third of the nation's largest and fastest growing major ethnic group, Hispanics, lacks health insurance? According to a U.S. Census Bureau report, only about 31 percent of ... Read more News for Women Physicians Register for inaugural AMA-WPS meeting set for Nov. 16 Registration for the first official business meeting of the AMA Women Physicians Section (WPS) is now open. The AMA-WPS business meeting and reception, held in conjunction with the Interim Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates, will take ... Read more News for Women Physicians AMA-WPS to host educational program If you're planning to attend next month's AMA Women Physicians Section business meeting and reception in National Harbor, don't miss "Women utilizing their political capital to improve health" Nov. 16 ... Read more Your AMA Membership Matters One of the most effective ways you can address the greatest public health and professional issues facing medicine today is through your membership in the nation's largest physician association, the AMA.       Tell Us What You Think If you have comments about AMA Wire, simply reply to this message. For more general feedback about AMA Wire, just email us. If you have general questions about the AMA, call the AMA Unified Service Center at (800) 262-3211.

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yes, we now have to be "educated" in the new health system. Never mind spending time trying to learn about diseases. We now need the equivalent of a speed reading course, a course in the language of "bureaucratese", and of course know all the signs and symptoms of not obeying big brother.


Then there is the abusurdity of the opiod regulations. Put a lable on the bottle, so that when the druggies steal our dying patient's medicines that they know they are addictive and dangerous.


Like other things from Obama's minions (and in this I point out the lopsided statistics of gun crime as the elephant in the living room), this ignores the real problem: a society that loves to get high. I mean, hey, when the biggest TV show on line is about a meth dealer, it's not like we try to portray people as evil, is it? (Or maybe the program did: a lot of moral people thought it did, but then a lot of good "christian" women liked 50 shades of grey: but here I stand with Janet Evanovich, who said she saw it as a lopsided relationship of abuse being romanticized.)


Luckily, I am retired, and too fuzzy minded and out of practice enough not to care. The only people I see are employees etc. with viruses.


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Speaking of viruses: I just saw one of our (part time) drivers and his family all with flu like symptoms and fever. I saw an employee last week who also lived on a farm with the same thing. Sounds like an influenza epidemic. I'll have to check the news and my cousin Dr. Angie to see if there is a flu epidemic, or if something else is going on.