Substance abuse

• The Uniform Standards give the Medical Board the consumer protection tools it needs to monitor substance abusing physicians.
• Consumer Watchdog sent the Medical Board of California a letter with recommended changes to the PHWP program regulations.
• The PHWP was created by legislation for the Medical Board to refer doctors or doctors can self-refer for treatment.
• The Medical Board of California voted to unanimously terminate its confidential physician diversion program for substance abusing and mentally ill physicians in 2008.

• BOSTON, Nov. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Effective October 2023, Providence Treatment has appointed Jennifer Herrmann to lead its business development, strategic management, and innovation across our national continuum.
• With her extensive process and tactical management experience, Jennifer will help advance the imperatives which drive the mission of Providence Treatment.
• Providence Treatment, a premier addiction treatment provider with offices in Boston, Philadelphia and Honolulu recently executed an agreement with Optum/United Behavioral Health to become an in-network provider to all UBH members in Massachusetts, effective December 11, 2023.
• At present, Providence Treatment is an in-network provider with all major insurers including all Blue Cross Companies, Aetna, Cigna/Evernorth and UBH in Massachusetts.

• Nonetheless, the show consistently rewards both sets of viewers by brilliantly blurring the line between reality and alternate history.
• It tells a compelling story wherein the Soviet Union beat the US to land on the Moon and, consequently, the space race never ended.
• For All Mankind begins in an Apollo era transformed by the inclusion of women, characters of colour and LGBTQ+ protagonists.

Astronaut fiction

• For All Mankind mines a rich vein of astronaut screen fiction, starting with the now-forgotten black-and-white TV show Men Into Space (1959).
• Science and fiction blurred in countless pulp tales, B-movies, magazine features, novels and comics.
• David Bowie sang about a “space oddity” in 1969 (later covered by astronaut Chris Hadfield, who filmed the first music video in space), while in 1977, Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols was tasked by Nasa with recruiting a more diverse field of astronaut candidates.

Nixon’s women

• The stereotypical all-American hero, the show says, is likely prone to anger-management issues, substance abuse and infidelity.
• In their place, the series uses an alternate history to reconstruct a better, more inclusive and even more diverse vision of Nasa.
• In the third episode of season one, set in the 1970s, Nasa seeks to counter Russia’s landing of a woman on the moon by recruiting women pilots of its own.
• It encapsulates what makes For All Mankind potentially the greatest show on television right now: meaningful human tales told against an interplanetary backdrop.

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Val Nolan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Nov. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hall of Fame Health, a healthcare concierge and care coordinator formed in partnership with the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2020, announced today a new Board of Directors.
• Partners of Hall of Fame Health represent the country's best available specialty healthcare services.
• 2023 Hall of Fame Health Board of Directors:
  Tony Boselli, Pro Football Hall of Famer, Class of 2022
  Tim Brown, Pro Football Hall of Famer, Class of 2015
  Dr. Drew Dossett, Orthopedic Surgeon and Spine Consultant for Dallas Cowboys, Texas Rangers, and Dallas Stars
  Mike Singletary, Pro Football Hall of Famer, Class of 1998
  "This organization has always been by players for players," said Jeremy Hogue, President and CEO of Hall of Fame Health.
• Anchored by three Pro Football Hall of Famers, Tony, Tim, and Mike, our new Board of Directors is a strong group that will steer Hall of Fame Health forward.