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COVID-19 Series (Part Two) with Dr. Laura Bishop

Louisville Lectures

Lauer SA, Grantz KH, Bi Q et al; The Incubation Period of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) From Publicly Reported Confirmed Cases: Estimation and Application. Gong J, Ou J, Qiu X et al; A Tool to Early Predict Severe Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Multicenter Study Using the Risk Nomogram in Wuhan and Guangdong, China.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

in 2019, with 78% receiving radiation therapy and 22% undergoing surgery. Time spent diagnosing, monitoring, and treating asymptomatic prostate cancer in men with limited life expectancy distracts from monitoring and treating their symptomatic life-limiting illnesses. in 2000 to 59.8%

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You don’t need to order comprehensive viral panels for most patients

PEMBlog

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not. Pediatrics.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

Today we talk with experts Janet Ho, Sach Kale, and Julie Childers about opioid use disorder and serious illness. Inspired by Dani Chammass paper in Annals of Internal Medicine titled, Wishing for a no show we talk about countertransference: start by asking yourself, Why am I having difficulty? Oh, my goodness.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. Emily 10:22 We are, we were very happy to receive a grant from the ABIM American Board of Internal Medicine to develop a podcast series on the topic of uncertainty in medicine. I’m an internal medicine trained physician.

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Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. We started writing this paper in 2019 actually. I was a clinical ethics fellow at Baylor College of Medicine. Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion center?

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Ambivalence in Decision-Making: A Podcast with Joshua Briscoe, Bryanna Moore, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby & Olubukunola Dwyer

GeriPal

We started writing this paper in 2019 actually. I was a clinical ethics fellow at Baylor College of Medicine. We had a seriously ill surrogate who lost capacity, who assigned two people to be his surrogate decision makers and wanted them to split decision making 50-50. Why did you decide to write this paper? Bry: Yeah, Eric.