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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

These factors may have impacted their diet, physical activity, and medications, thus impacting their creatinine levels and the inputs that we use for GFR. September 8, 2020. Published online May 11, 2020. Published online July 29, 2020. Published online July 29, 2020. Published July 2, 2020. J Intern Med.

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Using technology to reclaim our time

Today's Hospitalist

Suggest differential diagnoses: Based on a patient’s symptoms and history, the AI could offer potential diagnoses for hospitalists to consider, aiding in the decision-making process. Changes in burnout and satisfaction with work-life integration in physicians and the general US working population between 2011 and 2020.

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When to Go to a Doctor for Chest Congestion: At-home Care vs. Medical Attention

Doctor On Demand

Virtual visits can diagnose colds, flu , or allergies and help you manage symptoms at home. Determine the likely cause : The doctor will diagnose whether it’s likely a viral infection, bacterial illness, allergies, or another condition. These help reveal the cause of congestion and guide the most effective treatment.

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PEMPix 2023 Online Case 4: You Can’t Get Fooled Again

PEMBlog

Physical exam Vital Signs: Temperature: 37.9 °C, The patient was ultimately diagnosed with tyrosinemia type 1, an autosomal recessive disorder of amino acid metabolism. If not diagnosed, infants with tyrosinemia can die of liver failure within a few years of birth. 2020 Jun 5;38:e2018158. Rev Paul Pediatr. link] [link]

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. If they physically come here, it’s sort of just the natural course of things that they’ll walk into the room with the patient. Lynn, what were you doing in Covid 2020?

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Fantastic.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. That started in November of 2020. Go back in your mind, November of 2020, COVID is at its peak, we don’t have vaccines quite yet. Every time we’d make a visit, he would talk about being physically restrained.

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