Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Supporters said it was meant to close a legal loophole created in 2018 when a federal law allowed states to regulate hemp, a plant that can be processed to create THC. The proposed law would have made it a misdemeanor to own, make or sell THC products. Abbott, a Republican, waited until the final deadline to reject the bill, the AP said.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This case was submitted by Dr. Andrea De Jesús Martínez Chief PEM Fellow at Baylor College of Medicine | Texas Children’s Hospital Instagram: @bcm_pemfellows Co-author: Benjamin Silva, MD, MPH The Case A 4-year-old male with no significant past medical history presents with headache and vomiting. 51,2 (2018): 126-128.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I also love wearing my Medelita Kinetic Scrub Jacket especially since the hospitals and clinics are so cold. I've bought candles for pretty much everyone in my family and I love the personalized candles and being able to customize the label to each person. I even bought one for my little sister since I like it so much!

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids.

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PEMBlog

JULY 17, 2023

The original post was authored by Ashley Endres in 2018. It is important that families replace the G-tube or use a foley within 4 hours to help maintain patency of the stoma as the stoma can close quickly. At that point you can follow the step of inserting new G-tube Bonus Videos This video is by Nemours Children’s Hospital.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

In that study , researchers analyzed data from over one million participants from 0 to 19 years of age after torrential rains, floods, and landslides occurred in 2018. Pediatricians can guide families on, for example, ensuring adequate rest and hydration during games, as well as on identifying and acting on signs of heat illness.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

These statistics not only reflect the number of birthing people dying in childbirth but also evince the number of children growing up without a parent and the number of families losing a loved one. Kozhimannil discusses her work on rural maternity care and the lack of hospital-based obstetric services. and a professor.”

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. So it’s just a wide-opening lens that most of us never really get to see if we’re on the hospital-based side. Welcome, Katie, to the GeriPal podcast. Katie: Awesome.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. In 2018, survey data revealed that only 41% of survey adult practices had the full complement of funded core team members, which is up from 25% of 2016. In other words, in addition to being a specialist (e.g.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. Michele: The article was 2018, but I think Bonnie read the article more recently. Eric: How long ago was this? Alex: A few years back.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

2018 Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews on ACP. And especially for those who may have nontraditional families. I think if you’re from a nontraditional family, it’s very important to make sure that people understand who you would want to talk to. Alex: What did it changed to after 2018? We can work it out!

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

I mean, just such struggles around corruption in hospitals, access to opioid pain medication, and you almost had to wait until a friend of yours was in power, so you could have access, get permission. Alex: I love the story of this book, how it starts so locally and then moves on to the Kerala region and then moves to India.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. It was amazing. It was really, really crazy.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

But the other was she read an article about our hospice in the May of 2018 New York Times magazine. And back then, mostly we took care of each other in the cells and it was like a family thing. AIDs didn’t know any color or creed, so it was a family thing, we all took care of each other. Allan: 35 years. Eric: 35 years.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

JAMA Surgery 2018 Gabapentin and mood stabilizers in the Nursing Home Setting: Antiepileptic prescribing to persons living with dementia residing in nursing homes: A tale of two indications. Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. J Am Geriatr Soc.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. Jill Schneiderhan, a family medicine and integrative medicine doc, helps us think through this. Ivermectin to treat cancer. Stem cell treatments.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

And I think up until the time when my aunt was passing, I had been very afraid of the idea of death in my family. I’m also a geriatrician and a palliative care physician, so I’ve talked to families and patients about death and dying. Frank, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. It was something we didn’t talk about.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Today’s podcast is a follow up to our 2018 podcast with Randy Curtis about the Jumpstart intervention. ” And I saw Randy run family meetings before I knew he was famous, before I knew he was this legendary researcher. And he was just such a great doctor and such a great advocate for families.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back, a frequent guest to our podcast, Rachelle Bernacki, who’s a palliative care physician and geriatrician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. And so this was really, in my view, a perfect window for reinforcing the role of family in primary care. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Redwing: So I grew up in a pretty intellectual family, but my brother and sister were six and 10 years older than me, and they were always feeding me literature and poetry. Eric: Like since a little kid? Redwing: Since a little kid. Eric: Yeah? Redwing: Yeah. Eric: What do you think attracted you to it?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In two decades of practicing family medicine, I've never seen a patient with measles. But if there was ever a more fertile environment for this age-old contagion to come roaring back in the U.S., this is it. over the past 30 years.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 23, 2025

This post first appeared on March 6, 2018, during the first Trump administration's failed attempt to eliminate the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Update: the NGC ceased operating in 2018.] You need not be ill enough to be hospitalized or care about practice guidelines to suffer if AHRQ is eliminated for good.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide. Isn’t it weird that now we’re labeling the majority of doctors with burnout in 2018? I give you Dr. Pamela Wible. It’s Japanese.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Pediatr Rev May 2018; 39 (5): 247–257. Greater than 50 percent of kids under 12 months of age with pertussis could require hospitalization. Infants with apnea, cyanosis, or feeding difficulties should obviously be admitted to the hospital. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. link] UpToDate Yeh S et al.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

He kept his diagnosis hidden from friends and family because he knew how people talked about HIV. “I thought my family was going to disown me,” he said. Gaunt and feverish, he went to the hospital and learned he had AIDS. His mother slept at his hospital bedside for two weeks: “She said, ‘God got you.’”

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

But that’s when his family began fighting another adversary: their health insurer, which decided the treatment was “not medically necessary,” according to insurance paperwork. When the Tennant family was told histotripsy would cost $50,000 and insurance wouldn’t cover it, they appealed the denial four times.

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