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		<title>MMS member praised by patient</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re thrilled when patients go to the trouble of letting Mass. Medical Society know how happy they are with the care they receive from our member physicians. Here&#8217;s a great example: “There are no words to describe how grateful I am for the medical care I have received from Rebecca Hill, MD, and her staff [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Office-based care penalties will harm patients and physicians</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2018 14:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[By Dr. Alain A. Chaoui, President, Massachusetts Medical Society Last week, I addressed the membership of the Medical Society via a special video announcement to provide an update about this incredibly busy, and likely impactful, state legislative session, which will end on July 31st. In that address, I mentioned one issue that is of particular concern: two [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch Dr. Chaoui&#8217;s inauguration remarks</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2018 18:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We make the commitment to be at our best &#8211; every time a patient enters the exam room. We must treat the 20th patient of the day with the same respect, compassion and mental clarity with which we treated the first &#8211; regardless of our exhaustion, the paperwork that lies ahead, or our commitments waiting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cost-cutting measures should not be at the expense of patient care – Dr. Dorkin</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[It’s no secret that health care in the United States – including here in the Commonwealth – is expensive, and the rising cost of prescription drugs plays no small role in that. However, as physicians who are dedicated to the health and wellbeing of our patients, we cannot prioritize cost-cutting measures over the ability of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>MGH resident Stephanie Rutledge, M.D.   wins Mass. Medical Society Information Technology award</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Dr. Stephanie Rutledge, a second-year medicine resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the winner of the 2018 Massachusetts Medical Society’s Information Technology Award, thanks to an app designed to improve clinical skills. The honor recognizes the development of an information technology tool that helps physicians practice medicine, teach medicine, or pursue clinical research. Two awards [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Paul Satwicz is Charles River Medical Society  2018 Community Clinician of the Year</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 16:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Paul Satwicz, MD, an anesthesiologist, and founder and former director of the pain management service at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, has been selected as the Charles River District Medical Society’s 2018 Community Clinician of the Year, an award recognizing his professionalism and contributions as a physician. Dr. Satwicz, also an assistant clinical professor of anesthesiology at Tufts [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Dorkin offers clarification on new medical aid-in-dying policy</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2018 12:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of December, the MMS House of Delegates – the Medical Society’s policy-making arm – voted to rescind our long-standing policy of opposition to what we previously called “physician-assisted suicide.” This was not an easy decision, of course. We represent 25,000 physicians and medical trainees, and each of those members has strong opinions [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Statement on HHS Conscience and Religious Freedom Division</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 17:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[As physicians, we have an obligation to ensure patients are treated with dignity while accessing and receiving the best possible care to meet their clinical needs.  We will not and cannot, in good conscience, compromise our responsibility to heal the sick based upon a patient’s racial identification, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Tips for Making It Through a Massachusetts Winter</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2017 14:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[By Susan Moynihan, MD, and Shreekant Vasudhev, MD With falling temperatures signifying the inevitable change of the season, many New Englanders have begun preparing for another unpredictable winter. In our retirement years, winter can be a difficult and dangerous few months. If you’re retired,  or if you have senior family, friends, and neighbors —that means [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>ICYMI: Dr. Dorkin pens pro-SIF piece for Stat</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts Medical Society president Henry L. Dorkin, MD, FAAP last week authored a piece for the health care-focused media outlet, Stat News, during which he outlined the organization&#8217;s stance on the need to pilot a supervised injection facility in the Commonwealth. &#8220;As we continue to look for ways to increase access to recovery programs for [&#8230;]]]></description>
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