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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.
Physician's Weekly
JUNE 19, 2025
Patients with documented mental illness or substance use disorders (SUDs) continue to encounter a mixed—sometimes starkly divergent—quality of emergency department (ED) care when they present with chest pain, abdominal pain, or other non‑psychiatric complaints, according to a patient‑interview study published in Health Services Research.
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PEMBlog
OCTOBER 31, 2024
every year, leading to emergency department visits and hospitalizations. However, this large study shows that probiotics do not significantly shorten illness duration, improve symptoms, or reduce the need for additional medical visits. 2018 Nov 22;379(21):2002-2014. N Engl J Med 2018; 379:2015-2026. N Engl J Med.
GeriPal
MAY 19, 2022
Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. Summary Transcript Summary. A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid). How do you do that? Oh boy, what should we do?
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. Should we use Ozempic (if we can find it) in patients with serious illness, which often results in undesirable and profound weight loss? Goldilocks zone). Listen in to learn more!
Pamela Wible MD
JUNE 20, 2025
Wendy Dean and Simon Talbot with their landmark 2018 article, Physicians aren’t ‘burning out.’ Moral injury now extends beyond combat veterans to include physicians in 2018 when Dean and Talbot announced their opposition and alternative to the label physician “burnout.” It is unclear to me who first applied the term to doctors.
The Clinical Problem Solvers
AUGUST 25, 2020
Policing in Schools and Hospitals Health care systems must actively advocate and protect their patients and that means we have to also reevaluate the presence of police in our spaces. Jefferson & Hedwig Lee (2020) Illness spillovers of lethal police violence: the significance of gendered marginalization. N Engl J Med.
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