2016 Clinic Illness Specialization 
The Medical Futurist
JUNE 21, 2025
Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. In 2016, The Guardian reported that a blind woman suffering from this disease was fitted with the implant labelled “bionic eye” in the UK as part of a trial at the Oxford Eye Hospital.
PEMBlog
JUNE 14, 2023
This episode is a co-production of the Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center whose mission is to minimize morbidity and mortality of acutely ill and injured children across the emergency continuum. Special thanks to Manpreet Singh, MD ( @MprizzleER ) for helping to put this collaboration together.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
GeriPal
APRIL 14, 2022
On today’s podcast we talk with three experts on buprenorphine on why, when, and how to use it in serious illness. Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . We got some really special guests with us. This is both a research and a clinical interest of yours.
GeriPal
JULY 28, 2022
GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. Additional links: Editorial on Areej’s study. Palliative care in lung and GI cancers. Transcript.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Not the most common circumstances that people with serious illness face where attention and understanding of what my goals and values are. Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016.
GeriPal
MARCH 28, 2024
Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans. Alex: Recently you talked about the other trial, also with a nudge, and that was non-cancer, serious illness.
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.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
105 
Let's personalize your content