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Celebrating Hospice and Palliative Medicine as the Fifth Largest Medical Subspecialty

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Additionally, we are still quite a young specialty, with the birth of HPM as an official specialty being announced in 2005 , and getting started in 2008. A message can be muddled when telling a large audience to access HPM physicians yet there are none in their area. We have just entered our teenage years.

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Talking With a Hospice Chaplain

Journey With Deanna

Blane Brazier has worked full time in hospice since 2008. training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005 He has a unique ministry of using his guitar or sometimes the ukulele to engage the spiritual life of his patient's.

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Roger Chou’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity

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In 2005, Gary Franklin, MD, MPH, Director of the Labor and Industry Program, who would later become PROP’s Vice President of State Regulatory Affairs, published an article alleging that “that tolerance or opioid-induced abnormal pain sensitivity may be occurring in some workers who use opioids for chronic pain (9).” 2005 Aug;48(2):91-9.

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