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.

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Complication Patient-Centered Individual Management 52

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Niharika Goparaju Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow at the University of Texas – Austin | Dell Children’s Medical Center Instagram: @ngoparaj, @atxpemsquad, @dellmedschool, @cat_yee Co-author: Catherine Yee, MD The Case A 12-year-old male with trisomy 21 presents with one week of right eye swelling and three days of clear eye drainage.

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Patient-Centered Diagnosis Management Patients 52

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. 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? Summary Transcript Summary. AlexSmithMD.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. The patient’s capacity to make decisions was marginal, and his sons were shouldering much of the responsibility.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. We discuss the moral distress that clinicians felt including, as one physician put it, a sense of your soul being ripped out.

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Hospital IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 96

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

In further contrast to the United States, MAID in Canada is almost entirely administered by a clinician, whereas in the United States patients must self administer. You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). Leonie, welcome to GeriPal. Leonie: Thanks for having me.

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