The workplace today is filled with endless change, complexity and high expectations. Unfortunately, it's also filled with a workforce that is struggling with fatigue, burnout, stress and retention. Unless your people understand how to strengthen resilience and build resilient teams, your workplace and teams don't stand a chance. Just like a muscle, resilience and mental […]
From its synthesis by Dr. Paul Janssen in 1960 to its illegal synthesis by George Marquardt, a high school dropout and self-taught chemist, fentanyl plays a significant role in today’s drug abuse epidemic. Clinical pharmacist Phil Walls explains why fentanyl has gained momentum as an alternative to heroin, and what we can do to mitigate […]
During the early days of the COVID-19 crisis, MedRisk expanded its nearly 3-year-old telerehab service. Previous expansions to help workers’ comp patients impacted by natural disasters did not produce a significant uptick in telerehab cases. Patients and adjusters saw hurricanes and wildfires as local and temporary and felt treatment could be delayed for a week […]
COVID-19 is changing many aspects of modern life, and many of those changes will have long-lasting effects. Drug development is one of those aspects. In this edition of CompTalks, Phil Walls will take us on a Race for the Cure as he examines how both the pandemic as well as politics have influenced drug and […]
