PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

This episode will help you better prepare for and manage children with inborn errors of metabolism in the Emergency Department. 2016 Jan;37(1):3-15; quiz 16-7, 47. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. Now, what should we do for evaluation and next steps in management? Pediatr Rev. PMID: 26729777.

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Consulting Individual Families Family 59

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. They supported patients, they gave them a holding environment, they did symptom management, yada, yada, yada, like all the things we know palliative care clinicians do.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Alex: And, it means pain management. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016. And, then around 2016 we were like, “We kind of need a new challenge, and that’s podcasting now.” Eric: That was the SAT answer. Eric: I’ve heard that before. ” Love it.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I. Joel: Yeah. And that really created an opportunity to study this.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). Four percent. So they have to self-administer.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia. Nurse case management, social worker case management, medications, medical equipment, a home health aid, all that stuff goes away.

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Families Family IT Patients 107

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. I don’t know how our patients manage that. Eric 10:09 So you’re reassured on that concern there. Kara 10:12 Yep. Eric 10:13 You know, I guess one question for me is a ways back, I looked at our. And by the way, the cancer’s back when you get your next scan in three months.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed? Margot: Yeah.

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Mental Health IT Community Individual 124

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Robert was first asked by one of his own patients for assistance in dying in 1991, far before aid in dying was legalized in California in 2016. He has an interest in hospice and of life care, pain management and medical ethics. Today, medical aid in dying is legal in some 10 states, and illegal in others. . I got it the second time.

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Provider Medical Hospital Patient-Centered 19

Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

Makary published a controversial study in 2016 hypothesizing that errors killed 250,000 people a year in the U.S. He and Harvard colleague Celeste Royce have sued AHRQ, HHS , and the Office of Personnel Management over removal of the article. There are things we could learn to improve our care and get more timely diagnosis of cancer.”

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Patient-Centered Hospital Diagnose Medical 52