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Q&A: Cannabis Use Tied to Reduced Working Memory

Physician's Weekly

Gowin and his colleagues analyzed data from 1,003 adults between 22 and 36 years of age who had functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), urine toxicology, and cannabis use results collected at one academic site between 2012 and 2015 as part of the Human Connectome Project. It’s more complicated than that. The cohort (mean age, 28.7

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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

It’s the physics of physician bandwidth: You can’t add something without taking something away. And individual practice styles are fine. While individual practice styles vary, expectations from patients needs to be managed by the consistent use of tools like MyChart by practice groups.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

Julien, let’s start off with, congratulations by the way and Lauren too, the CHEST paper that just got published on Trends in Geriatric Conditions Among Older Adults in the ICU between 1998 and 2015. Lauren: Although again, still thinking about what that means for an individual older adult is really important.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. The MAID issue then came on the table in Canada after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Carter v. So it started off for individuals with a terminal illness.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. This is a particularly interesting topic because we know that individuals with dementia have a high rate of entering nursing home.

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