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MDedge Daily News: Doctor groups float APM for treating opioid addiction


 

An alternative payment model aims to provide more medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder by creating a better way to pay doctors for that work. Also, there is a “bright future” for growth factor therapy osteoarthritis, advanced adenoma on colonoscopy is linked to increased colorectal cancer incidence, and in the wake of two trainee suicides within one week, a physician reflects on that week and pens two basic suggestions moving forward.

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