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Anchor lead: Do families and doctors walk away from critical meetings with the same understanding? Elizabeth Tracey reports Doctors may be unintentionally optimistic when conveying difficult information. That’s one interpretation of a study by Renee Boss, a neonatologist at Johns …
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Anchor lead: What’s the best way to handle the opioid crisis? Elizabeth Tracey reports Fewer opioid medications are being prescribed, that much is certain, but have deaths relative to opioid overdose declined? The most recent data haven’t yet shown such …
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Anchor lead: How should opioids be used when someone has surgery? Elizabeth Tracey reports Opioid medications are addictive. But they’re also effective for relieving severe pain. Now a study in the BMJ concludes that careful management of opioids in this …
