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Blue Monarch CEO: Hospice Startup Seeks to Raise Bar on Quality

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They’ve found their clinical backgrounds gave them valuable perspective as they worked to strike a balance between their patients and their workforce. I became a registered nurse in 2012 and received my nurse practitioner degree in 2017. We’re starting small to be able to manage patients coming to us.

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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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Chou had originally announced his intention to help influence opioid policy in a 2011 article that he co-authored with PROP’s founders (5), and he was a bold signatory to PROP’s 2012 Petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to change opioid labeling (6; See Figures 1a and 1b: First page and signatory page.)

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