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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe purpose of this research was to determine the test-retest reliability of the Numeric Dizziness Scale (NDS). The Numeric Dizziness Scale is a 0-10 numeric subjective individual rating scale designed to quantify...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThrough this life altering ordeal of obtaining a DUI and having strict restrictions regarding all substances, I have learned a lot about myself and the way that I have been managing stress the past several years. I am...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe 2018 Legislative Session produced some important changes for physicians. The most dramatic changes are a result of Senate Bill 273, the Opioid Reduction Act. This creates new code as 16-54, as well as amending...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSpencer Lee Bivens Jr., MD Dr. Spencer Lee Bivens Jr., passed away on March 10, 2018, at home, after an extended illness. He was the son of the late Dr. Spencer L. Bivens and Frances Wilson Bivens. Dr. Bivens...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWe almost missed it! Our very own, Hoyt J. Burdick, MD, FACHE, past president of the WVSMA and Senior Vice President/CMO, Cabell Huntington Hospital was featured in Healthcare Executive. In the November/December 2017...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe following bills were enacted by the West Virginia Legislature during the 2018 regular session. Do note that Governor Justice must act on these bills by or before midnight on March 28, 2018. A failure to act does not...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOur introduction to legislative medicine began in the newly-purchased office building of the West Virginia State Medical Association, a short walk from the capitol grounds. There, on the second floor, we met Danny...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOn Friday, March 16, the WVU School of Medicine celebrated Match Day with the class of 2018 medical students on all three medical school campus locations in Morgantown, Charleston and Martinsburg. One hundred WVU...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWARNING! A one-week summer camp offered by the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM) may be contagious. That's because the sixth annual Just Say KNOW Scholars Program will switch its focus from...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedORIGINALITY: Articles submitted for publication become the sole property of the West Virginia Medical Journal. Prior publication is unacceptable. The Publications Committee reserves the right to edit any material...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedUma Sundaram, M.D., vice dean for research at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and a board-certified gastroenterologist, has been awarded a five-year, $10.78 million grant from the National...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Marshall Community Health Consortium, a group of regional health care providers including Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and Marshall Health, has received accreditation of its first medical...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEach year, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Bureau for Public Health, Office of Maternal, Child and Family Health reviews the deaths of all women during pregnancy, at birth, or within one year...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTelemedicine has been credited with increasing patient access to healthcare, facilitating difficult patient care decisions when time is of the essence, reducing cost, encouraging around-the-clock coverage, and allowing...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM) has once again been recognized as one of the nation's top medical schools. For the 20th consecutive year, WVSOM has received recognition by the U.S. News &...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMarshall has received initial accreditation to move forward with two fellowships, both of which are in the department of psychiatry and behavioral medicine. Approval for the child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis column is reprinted from the Daily Mail Opinion page of the Charleston Gazette-Mail. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the doors opening at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. That...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFollowing the adoption of a minimally invasive diagnostic approach to occult breast lesions, our community hospital retrospectively reviewed the association between high risk benign lesions by core biopsy and the...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIt is unnerving to receive the dreaded letter requesting a deposition, especially when it is a Subpoena. Likely, when you chose to become a health care provider, the last thing on your mind was having to take an oath...
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From:West Virginia Medical Journal (Vol. 114, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Most patch testing reviews are undertaken by large, urban centers. Comparison of patch test to a rural environment has not been performed. Objective: Compare differences of contact dermatitis in a rural...