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  Patient decision aids might help with routine health choices. The science of decision-making also can help navigate ethically complex choices.
  
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  New CME from the AMA offers insight into helping your patients take advantage of Medicare’s new payment for diabetes prevention programs.
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  Myth or fact? You must ask about patients' pain at every consult
  
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  Medicare Advantage keeps growing, but beneficiaries face shrinking networks, networks suddenly dropping their doctors and a false illusion of choice.
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  Where the AMA stands on 7 of the year’s biggest health care issues
  
  From the E/M overhaul to the opioid epidemic, here’s how the AMA has shown itself to be the physician’s powerful ally in health care this year.
  
  Why the HHS conscience-rights rule was blocked in court
  
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  AMA member Lou Edje, MD, has found that the long-term patient-physician relationships she creates are more professionally satisfying than she could have imagined.
  
  See who made the list of most influential people in health care
  
  CEOs, surgeons, health IT experts and governors made this year’s Modern Healthcare top 100. Among the 2019 honorees, 14 are AMA members.
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