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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This is the @nejm.org study that examined non-opioid analgesic, VX-548 (suzetrigine/Journavx), in acute postoperative pain (bunionectomy & paniculectomy). 100 mg load, then 50 mg for maintenance was comparable to 5- mg of hydrocodone. Low dose no better than placebo. www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Why does Chick-Fil-A run commercials on Sunday?

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Everyone else on social media today: Happy New Year!! 🎊🍾🎉 ABIM today: You have more test questions to answer starting today. 🙄

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

In our seats early at the Big Ten Football Championship at Lucas Oil Stadium in chilly Indianapolis! #WeAre

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

November and hurricane season both end with a spectacular sunset!

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Pre-Thanksgiving dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico!! 🐬

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Restoring compassionate pain care: a call to action kevinmd.com/2024/11/restor… via @kevinmd Well done!! 👏🏼 An excellent commentary with solid opioid policy recommendations from @ravensspirit68. 👇🏼 #CompassionatePainCare

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Dr Neil Pender BM MSc FRCP 🏳️‍🌈 @drneilpender.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Dear followers, If you can help... LIKE and REPOST. Many thanks! #PalliativeCare #HAPM #HPM #HAPC #Hospice

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Falling a bit behind here, so if I haven’t followed you back yet, don’t fret. (Wow, I sound like such a dad!🤦🏻‍♂️) Working on a textbook chapter on opioid law and policy, but I will try to keep up here, too.

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hey #HPM and #HaPC friends, It’s looking like @aahpm.bsky.social is also making the transition to “The Good Place.” Let’s get them messaging more on the True Blue app.

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I’m having trouble keeping up with my new follows here, but I’m getting there…

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The opposite of woke is asleep. Trust no one who wants to you to sleepwalk through life.

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

BOT Report 18, "Expanding Palliative Care," also adopted at the AMA 2024 Interim Meeting earlier this week. Note Item 7: AMA "opposes the imposition of criminal and civil penalties or other retaliatory efforts against physicians for… providing palliative care services, including hospice.”

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Here are screen shots of a new Ethical Opinion for the AMA Code of Ethics that will expand access to palliative care, including the treatment of pain and suffering for patients with serious, chronic, complex, or critical illness, regardless of prognosis. #HPM #HAPC #PainCareCrisis

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Today the AMA House of delegates passed a resolution that supports state and federal efforts to provide subsidies for undocumented immigrants to purchase health insurance, including by extending eligibility for premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions to purchase ACA plans.

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

The greatest revelation for me at the 2024 AMA Interim Meeting is that the AMA House of Delegates now falls to the left of mainstream America on the political spectrum.

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Early voting opened yesterday in Florida. You all know what to do.

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

My comments to @JAMANetworkOpen on "Strategies to Deimplement Opioid Prescribing" are now posted (click the Comments tab). Our patients deserve a more thoughtful approach to pain care policy than one that blindly embraces unilateral opioid reductionism." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Strategies to Deimplement Opioid Prescribing in Primary Care

This cluster randomized clinical trial tests a multilevel deimplementation strategy consisting of system-level educational meetings with audit and feedback reports, clinic-level practice facilitation,...

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Realized I never posted this article on @bsky.app!! “Providing outpatient palliative care longitudinally over four years offered lasting treatment-related reductions in pain intensity, preservation of performance status, and reduction in overall overdose risk.” www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

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Effectiveness of Long-Term Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain in an Outpatient Palliative Medicine Clinic | Journal of Palliative Medicine

Background: Despite widespread use of opioid therapy in outpatient palliative medicine, there is limited evidence supporting its efficacy and safety in the long term. Objectives: We sought to improve ...

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Haven’t posted here in awhile. So, enjoy last evening’s sunset!

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

Haven’t posted for awhile. But hiking in Sedona seems like a good reason to share some pics!

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

Merry Christmas from Ranger!! (Our grand-fur-baby!)🎄🎁🎅🏼

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

It’s been awhile, so I’ll post a sunset here tonight…

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Been awhile since I posted here, but - as Elon ponders completely monetizing “The Bad Place” - I’m thankful for this Good Place!!

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Good news!! My co-presenter, Beth Boyer Kollas, and I have been accepted to the 2024 Annual Assembly of Hospice & Palliative Care on the topic, "Liability for Under-prescribing Opioids in Vulnerable Patients with Severe Pain. See you in March 2024 in Phoenix, AAHPM peeps!!

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

I finished residency in 1992, so I missed out on lifetime certification. But I’m old enough to remember how strongly ABIM assured us that older physicians would recertify voluntarily! 🙄 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

First sunset pic on BlueSky, complete with a curious pelican!

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

As I’m getting used to BlueSky, I see that a lot of the great folks I used to follow on Twitter/X have made their way to “The Good Place.” So good to see you all!! 🙌🏼

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Rachel Thienprayoon, MD, MSCS @rthienprayoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

@chadkollas.bsky.social is here! Follow him, friends!

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Chad D. Kollas, MD, FACP, FAAHPM @chadkollas.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

For outpatients with chronic pain receiving palliative care, opioid therapy reduced pain intensity, preserved function & decreased overdose risk over four years. Perhaps we should focus on "right prescribing," instead of #OpioidReductionism... 🤔 doi.org/10.1089/jpm....

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