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Opioid Death - The drug epidemic is hitting SWFL hard: "In Southwest Florida, an already epidemic trend in opioid drug overdoses and deaths is getting worse as a toxic mix of heroin and fentanyl tears through the state and the U.S.." - Florida Weekly
Primary-care doc pay rises with demand, but the industry disparity is still large: "One of the lingering challenges to recruit more individuals to pursue a career in primary care has been the large wage differential found between those specialties and more specialized clinical fields." -
Modern Healthcare
With Affordable Care Act repeal dead, Bill Nelson helping lead bipartisan effort for solution: "A chance encounter between two senators on an airplane last month in Maine may be the catalyst for a breakthrough on health care reform." -
Naples Daily News
Independent physician groups join forces, go 'the other way': "As the regulatory environment, technology requirements and overhead costs force independent docs to consider selling or joining larger systems, two independent physician groups in Northeast Ohio are looking to push back against that trend." -
Modern Healthcare
Appeals court rules states can fight to preserve ACA subsidies: "
The appellate court order allowing state attorneys general to intervene in a lawsuit over the ACA's cost-sharing subsidies means the Trump administration cannot unilaterally stop the CSR payments and dismiss the appeal." -
Modern Healthcare
Zika infections still happening; much slower than 2016: "Cases of Zika virus are on the rise in Florida, according to the most recent data from the Florida Department of Health. But its [sic] nothing compared to 2016." -
Naples Herald
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CCMS Member Notices
Stressed? The CCMS Physician Wellness Program offers confidential, convenient, cost-free access to psychological services for CCMS members, as well as member fitness and wellness groups, and a discount to Collier County Fitness Centers. Learn more at
ccmsonline.org.
Today's physician burnout article is from the Happy MD,
Stop Physician Burnout - the Quadruple Aim Prime Directive for Physician Leaders.
CCMS Membership Certificates now available: CCMS Members who have paid your 2017 dues - you may request a 2017 CCMS Membership Certificate to print and display in your office. Email us
or call (239) 435-7727 if interested.
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Upcoming Events
Sunday, August 13, 11:30am, Private Residence
Educational topic: Contemporary Pain Management Therapies
Wednesday, August 23, 6:00pm, Hilton Naples
Foundation of CCMS Social
(stay tuned for registration details)
Thursday, September 7, 6:00pm, PGA Tour Superstore
More events at ccmsonline.org
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Spotlight on CCMS Members
Email your news to CCMS to be included in the next issue
Dr. Reisha Brown
was appointed to a three-year term on the David Lawrence Center Board of Directors. Dr. Brown will serve on the Clinical Practices Committee.
Dr. Alexander Eaton
and his research colleagues have been awarded a patent for a new guarded injection device used for targeted application of medication for retinal disorders. Developed by Dr. Eaton and the Retina Health Center in collaboration with other researchers, the guarded injection device incorporates a small gauge needle covered by a thin protective sleeve designed to protect the needle from contamination risks before and during the injection.
Dr. Scott Needle has been invited by the AAP and CDC to attend a meeting at CDC Headquarters in Atlanta this month on the Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Management of Zika Virus Infection in Pregnant Women and Infants. This is a follow-up to a similar meeting one year ago which produced the Interim Guidance for the Evaluation and Management of Infants with Possible Congenital Zika Virus Infection, published in the August 26, 2016 MMWR.
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Could Hackers Threaten the Future of Medical Devices?
Submitted by The Doctors Company
Pacemakers, insulin pumps, and other medical devices communicate to a network via the Internet. This presents frightening possibilities about what hackers could do if they were to compromise a communication device embedded in a person.
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Classified Ad
MRI facility in Naples looking for a Part time MD for contrast supervision at our facility. Can work around your schedule. Looking for 1 -2 mornings/afternoons during the week.
If interested, please fax resume to: 844-663-4175 or call 239-253-0793.
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