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Watch Dr. Jain discuss his seven tips to help to gauge what is working, what is not working, and where there is room for improvement in treating and managing your adult patients with ADHD.

In this 30-minute, 0.50 credit CME activity, participants will be better able to define treatment response, remission and treatment resistance in MDD; identify patients with inadequate response to antidepressants who may benefit from treatment modification; select an appropriate next-step treatment strategy for a patient with partial response to an antidepressant; and compare pharmacologic and adverse effect profiles of SGAs approved for adjunctive treatment of MDD.

In this first part of a three-case series, a 65-year-old man received ruxolitinib for treatment and reported feeling much better after one month, and after two months of treatment, most of his symptoms had completely resolved and his blood cell counts were maintained under control.

Defamation lawsuits were brought into the limelight with the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard lawsuit, and physicians can learn a lot from the questions brought into the case, and most importantly, that even if you win the courtroom case, as Depp did, it can represent a loss in your real life.

The No Surprises Act, which went into effect on January 1, 2022, serves patients by legally protecting them from unexpected bills after receiving “emergency care, non-emergency care from out-of-network providers at in-network facilities, and air ambulance services from out-of-network providers.” But there are some doctors, like this acute-care surgeon, who believes the act is unconstitutional and is taking the federal government to court.

This “1-Minute Consult” discusses what constitutes bile duct dilation, clinical evaluation, imaging options for workups, clinical approach to the evaluation, and take-home points, along with figures, tables, info, and metrics on the condition.