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Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

The Clinical Problem Solvers

They explore the impact of racism, trauma, and inequities in care, while emphasizing the need for culturally grounded, community-based prevention. She is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

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Episode 384: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 26 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 1

The Clinical Problem Solvers

She is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). She was awarded the Society of Biological Psychiatry Humanitarian Award and the Community Outreach Award by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

That has placed them in the rare company of becoming one of the Top Fifteen Under 15 businesses in our community. The practice steadily grew through the 80’s and 90’s, and Dr. Eggebrecht joined in 1993, at a time when family doctors still rounded in the hospital and delivered babies. Family Physicians of St. Joseph, P.C.,

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Does transitional care management improve outcomes after discharge from the hospital?

Common Sense Family Doctor

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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Older adults with advanced chronic kidney disease and access to palliative care: Retrospective cohort study in primary care

Canadian Family Physician

Setting St Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team, including 5 clinics and an interdisciplinary home-based outreach team, in Toronto, Ont. Approximately one-third of the cohort (n=16) had GOC conversations involving prognosis, hospital transfer, place of death, and treatment goals. Thirty-two percent (n=8) died at home.

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In asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis, is earlier intervention better?

Common Sense Family Doctor

A recent editorial in the Journal of the American Heart Association discussed a “paradigm shift” in management of severe aortic stenosis: 69% of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries who underwent aortic valve replacement from 2012-2019 had TAVI, with the percentage undergoing SAVR falling from 75% in 2012 to just 10% in 2019.

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Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

PEMBlog

While elucidating the underlying cause of the hypertensive emergency is important for a patients ongoing care, your role in the pediatric ED is to: 1) stabilize airway, breathing, circulation; 2) minimize worsening end-organ dysfunction by acutely lowering blood pressure; and, 3) start work up to evaluate cause (Patel 2012).