Physician's Weekly

JUNE 14, 2025

Researchers conducted a retrospective study to examine the outcomes and natural history of asymptomatic renal stones managed by observation following RC and UD. They reviewed individuals referred for RC and UD between 2015 and 2023 at a single center.

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered Individual Management 52

33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

And individual practice styles are fine. This thread from a 2015 post illustrates how varying needs of a child with ulcerative colitis call for different ways to connect: Take Luke, a school-aged child with moderate ulcerative colitis complicated by sclerosing cholangitis. The problem comes with call and cross-coverage.

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Patients IT Provider Family Doctor 75

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

And it was amazing just seeing the differences in how end-of-life care is managed at those three institutions, which were all a subway right away from each other. It’s not explainable that each individual physician has independently arrived at this very aggressive practice pattern. I guess the VA is federal though. Liz: Right.

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Hospital IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And then when I did residency in internal medicine first, there was just a lot of focus on a lot of heroic management in the ICU that didn’t always appeal to me without thinking about what the morbidity might look like. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor. Julien: It’s a good question.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 96

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I moved to Boston in 2015 to start my PhD and I’ve always worked clinically at MGH during the process, but I was very interested in this notion of measuring function and frailty. Tamra: It’s incredibly complicated because to date, there’s not really a validated tool that’s mandated to be used across all settings.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia.

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Families Family IT Patients 106