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		<title>Physician Prescription Report Cards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twice a year from each of the major insurance plans I get a report card showing me how I compare to my peers on prescribing generic medications, formulary medications, and overall cost of medications.  For a few years I always felt good about these reports.  I consistently look favorable when compared to my peers. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drpullen.com/2010/09/10/physician-prescription-report-cards/</link>
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		<title>Tympanocentesis for Treatment of Acute Otitis Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sounds pretty radical at first, but maybe we should ask ourselves why acute otitis media is the one easily drainable abscess that we don’t routinely drain, but rather try to treat with antibiotics without drainage.  Admittedly acute ear infections often get better with or without antibiotic treatment. Still Dr. Mark Grubb makes a lot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drpullen.com/2010/09/08/tympanocentesis-for-treatment-of-acute-otitis-media/</link>
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		<title>DrPullen.com Throws Out the First Pitch at Grand Rounds Baseball Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out Musings of a Dinosaur for the weekly Grand Rounds this week.  This solo Family Physician uses a baseball theme to outline the best recent healthcare posts.  DrPullen.com has the honor of throwing out the first pitch. If you liked that try this:Shingles and Sunscreen by Dr. Pullen on June 12th, 2010A Special Relationship by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drpullen.com/2010/09/07/grand-rounds-baseball-style/</link>
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		<title>Is It Possible to Legislate or Regulate Pain Mangement?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First do no harm.  Treat every patient with respect and dignity. These are values I try to live by and incorporate into my daily work.  Treatment of chronic pain is the scenario that puts me and every practicing primary care physician in a no-win situation regularly in the office. To try to make physicians feel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drpullen.com/2010/09/06/possible-legislate-or-regulate-pain-mangement/</link>
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		<title>Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That would be easier if we really had much of a clue as to how to get rid of bedbugs, why there is a new bedbug epidemic after decades of no bedbug problems, and if we had a good reliable way to kill the bugs.  Bedbugs are formally known as Climex lectularious, is a small [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drpullen.com/2010/09/03/dont-let-bed-bugs-bite/</link>
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		<title>High Fructose Corn Syrup: A Sweetener with a Bad Rap!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brooke Douglas is back with her monthly nutrition advice for DrPullen.com   This month she shoots down yet one more myth, that high fructose corn syrup is somehow worse than sucrose, a.k.a. table sugar, as a sweetener in foods.  We get fat as a country because we eat too much and exercise too little, not because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drpullen.com/2010/09/01/high-fructose-corn-syrup/</link>
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		<title>I Like Unna Boots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to say that I really like Unna boots as therapy for veinous stasis ulcers.  I have no idea why they are called Unna boots.  If anyone knows, let me know.  I couldn’t find anything on-line to explain the name.  It’s an odd name for a really simple old-fashioned treatment that’s about as low [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drpullen.com/2010/08/30/i-like-unna-boots/</link>
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		<title>Generic Lipitor – Coming Soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hang on for real savings.  Coming in July 2011 is the expiration of the patent on Lipitor (generic name atorvastatin), the highest gross sales drug in the world.  Lipitor, by Pfizer, was still the top gross selling drug in the US despite competition since simvastatin became a generic option. We all were ecstatic when Zocor, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drpullen.com/2010/08/27/generic-lipitor-coming-soon/</link>
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		<title>More on Pertussis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not the only one posting about pertussis, a.k.a. whooping cough.  I recently posted about getting my Tdap booster early in order to get the protecti0n against pertussis, not just tetanus and diptheria.  (see Dr. Pullen Got His Tetanus Shot Years Early )  A nice recent article in the NY Times talks about this epidemic also.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drpullen.com/2010/08/25/more-on-pertussis/</link>
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		<title>PARP Inhibitors: A New Approach to Cancer Treatment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of you have probably heard of the BRCA 1 and BRCA2 gene mutations, that can predispose patients with mutations of these genes to breast, ovarian and other cancers.  BRCA1 and BRAC2 are proteins that play a key role in the repair of damage in the double stranded DNA of cells.  When there is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drpullen.com/2010/08/23/parp-inhibitors-approach-cancer-treatment/</link>
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