System Medical Director
Family Medicine
Dr. Steven J. Baumrucker, MD
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Steven Baumrucker is an expert in the field of Family Medicine. He attended University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine is a top medical university. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine is ranked 22 in research and 2 in primary care medicine He received awards:"Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Physician of the Year", "Member" and "Fellow". Steven J. Baumrucker, MD is a published MD. He has 79 publications published. The most current publication "An obvious call for better communication." Steven Baumrucker accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- Suicide and Self-Determination.
- Aggressive Treatment at End of Life.
- Hypertrophic Pulmonary Osteoarthropathy: A Rare But Treatable Condition in Palliative Medicine.
- The Partial Code Blue.
- Life Support After Brain Death.
- The Allegedly Abusive Surrogate.
- The Deathbed Confession.
- Whose "Best Interests" Are at Stake?
- When surrogates collide.
- The Principle of Distributive Justice.
- A Cognitively Impaired Patient Without a Surrogate: Who Makes the Decision?
- Legal but not always allowed: "physician aid in dying".
- Authors' Response to Letter to the Editor.
- Placebo: Medicine or Deception?
- Morphine to methadone conversion: an interpretation of published data.
- Methylnaltrexone: treatment for opioid-induced constipation.
- Death, dying, and statistics: quality measures versus quality of life.
- A ''minor'' decision: right to die or manslaughter?
- End-of-life care when the state is the guardian.
- A suicidal patient in the burn unit.
- Comfort care versus euthanasia.
- The case for ''palliative dialysis''.
- Diversion of opioid pain medications at end-of-life.
- Memantine (Namenda) for neuropathic pain.
- Gabapentin for intractable hiccups in palliative care.
- The ethical concept of "best interest".
- Assigning an appropriate surrogate.
- Brain death and organ transplantation.
- Cruel and unusual code blue?
- Dueling interests: when surrogates collide.
- Durable power of attorney versus the advance directive: who wins, who suffers?
- A medical error leads to tragedy: how do we inform the patient?
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and physician assisted suicide.
- The ethics of withdrawing treatment: how should the choice be made?
- Continuation of feeding tube.
- Ethics roundtable. Hospice and alcoholism.
- Case study: dementia, quality of life, and appropriate treatment.
- Case study--Living wills vs. the will of loved ones.
- Sedation for palliation of terminal symptoms--how soon is too soon?
- Case study: Sedation for palliation of terminal symptoms (SPTS), and nutrition and hydration at end of life.
- N-type calcium channel blockers: a call for papers.
- Sisters to the end: the rights of the mentally retarded to refuse treatment.
- Case study: denying admission of a suicidal patient to a nursing home.
- Physician orders for scope of treatment: an idea whose time has come.
- Honoring the patient's wishes or passive euthanasia?
- The Palliative Care Quality of Life Instrument (PQLI): a new tool for measuring quality of life.
- Differential advantage and hospice care.
- Discontinuing life support: whose call?
- A tale of two transitions.
- Spirituality in hospice and palliative care.
- Complementary medicine and the scientific method: mainstreaming proven "alternative" therapies.
- Sedation, dehydration, and ethical uncertainty.
- The ABMS, the ABHPM, and the future of a specialty.
- Palliative care, burnout, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Post-thoracotomy pain syndrome: an opportunity for palliative care.
- Is there an answer to the medical review policy nightmare?
- Palliation of painful bone metastases: Strontium-89.
- Cooperation, not competition, engenders success.
- Science, hospice, and terminal dehydration.
- The education of medical professionals in palliative care topics is essential.
- Medical marijuana and organ transplantation: drug of abuse, or medical necessity?
- Politics, cancer pain, and methadone.
- Ketamine and problems with advanced palliative care in the community setting.
- Should we fear the pain relief promotion act?
- AND versus DNR.
- Medical marijuana.
- Palliative care in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a new tool in the fight against an old enemy.
- The personal side of hospice and palliative care education.
- OxyContin, the media, and law enforcement.
- Euthanasia: can the trend be countered?
- Clinical research on heroin in cancer pain control.
- Listening to ALS.
- An obvious call for better communication.
- Management of intestinal obstruction in hospice care.
- Duragesic (transdermal fentanyl) in hospice care.
- The therapeutic baptism: a case of missed cultural clues in a terminal setting.
- Withdrawing treatment for the "wrong" reasons.
- Ethics roundtable. Providing care in an unacceptable environment.
Schools
University Of North Carolina Chapel Hill School Of Medicine
Holston Vly Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Family Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Physician of the Year
- Member
- Fellow
Education
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East Tennessee State University -
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1841239969 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | BAUMRUCKER | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | STEVEN | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 376606027 | |
| NPPES Provider State | TN | |
| Specialty Description | Family Practice | |
| Total Claim Count | 464.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 9.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 328.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 70.69 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1841239969 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BAUMRUCKER |
| First Name Of The Provider | STEVEN |
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