Massachusetts Medical Society

Future Health: Best Practices for Advancing Care

Health care systems are a major contributor to climate change. The health sector accounts for about 8.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. This is due to several factors, including the use of energy-intensive equipment and buildings, the transportation of patients…

Firearms: Screening, Suicide Prevention, Community Engagement

In 2020, 42% of United States households reported owning a firearm. While access to firearms is associated with increased risk for injury and death, safe firearm storage is associated with decreased risk. Clinicians need information on how to appropriately screen…

Advocating for Appropriate Medical Assessments for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Persons with Intellectual Disability/Developmental Disability (ID/DD) experience complex physical, medical, emotional and social problems which requires coordination of medical care across multiple disciplines. This webinar reviews the causes and consequences of intellectual and developmental disabilities, suggests strategies for examining and…

Suicide Assessing Patients’ Safety and Physician Responsibilities

As many as 50,000 people in the U.S. die each year by their own hand. Among those, approximately 75% had seen a physician within a year before their death—45% to 66% within the prior month. This course was developed to…

Applying Best Practices to Prevent, Identify and Manage Prescription Misuse

According to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, more than 6 million Americans are misusing prescription drugs. In 2015, Governor Baker announced that Massachusetts was in the midst of an opioid epidemic. In 2019, there were 1,952 confirmed opioid-related overdose…