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Empowerment Self-Defense Arms ED Staff Against Rising Workplace Violence

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

For physicians, nurses, medical assistants, and support staff, workplace violence (WPV) is now a daily hazard, inflicting physical injury, emotional trauma, and eroding the quality of patient care. The emergency room has become a pressure cooker, and healthcare professionals are paying the price. The Warner Bros.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Their success is understandable : they offer a fast and easy method to check any skin conditions, typically for a fraction of the cost of a traditional healthcare appointment. Self-care and telemedicine for patients The options of teledermatology services, as well as self-care platforms, are soaring.

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? This is back in, I don’t know, like 2014 maybe. And then one patient who really knew more about a topic than I did, which unfortunately happens much more often.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

The FDA-approved indications for gabapentin are only for treating patients with partial seizures or postherpetic neuralgia. valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. There are a lot of reasons that may explain the massive increase in use of these drugs.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Initially, it was just because there weren’t really answers for my patients. We’re going to go into how to talk to patients about this, because Emmy, you’ve done some research on it. Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. Eric: Yeah.

Family

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. Most sore throats are common cases, so it can be hard to know when to seek urgent care or when to just rest at home.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

-Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. I always knew that I wanted to get into healthcare, to use healthcare as a springboard for social change in our communities. Naheed 15:56 2014. Eric 15:57 2014.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. Krista Harrison found , to her surprise, that caregivers of people with dementia who died rated hospice as well as similar patients without dementia who died on hospice. AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. These studies are important.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

First, in our editorial, we expressed concern about the length of stay metric not being patient centric, though important for health systems focused on cost savings. And, of course, this is what families of patients undergoing palliative care go through. This is 24,000 encounters, over 15,000 patients, 11 hospitals, eight states.

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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

It’s emotionally hard, but it’s also rewarding because I have such a meaningful life, especially when you see the family members of the patient are so grateful that you’re there. And they’re my family and the patients here and the doctors and the nurses. Jeff: I’ve been doing this since 2014.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

So our elders who are people of color, people who live in places that are already challenged by poor air quality and those things and access to healthcare, they also have greater risks. Elders Climate Action, and let me just tell you a little bit about who we are, was created in 2014 as the project of a 501(c)(3), Elders Action Network.

Healthcare

Healthcare IT Education Hospital

Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

doi: 10.1136/fmch-2021-001143 The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in profound changes in patient and prescriber behaviour. In the United Kingdom (UK), primary care practitioners are the first-line clinicians which most patients encounter, providing initial assessment and treatment of a wide variety of conditions.

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Empowerment Self-Defense Arms ED Staff Against Rising Workplace Violence

Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

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