PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

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. 2000; 55(5):616-623.

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Patients Screening Illness Physicals 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Dr. Okah is a family medicine clinician and NRSA research fellow at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and she studies the association between the use of race in medical decision-making and beliefs regarding the etiology of disparities in health outcomes. link] November 17, 2020. December 17, 2020.

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Healthcare Utilities Hospital Internal Medicine 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . VA “gets” the importance of storytelling in medicine, without the need for reams of research to back it up. So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families.

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Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. I’m just thinking we all went through a major traumatic event in 2020 and the subsequent years. Well, being a pretty comprehensive definition. Eric 04:19 Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Screening Patients 66

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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.”

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

NIH study about long COVID published the day before in Annals of Internal Medicine. it was April, 2020. We’re actually lower of COVID deaths in this country than we’ve ever been since March of 2020. Stat news article about variants/COVID becoming more predictable. Evusheld and how it works against BA4 and BA5.

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Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100

The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Reflection Question: How can I best communicate the importance of social interventions to my extended family, community, and patients?) The emotional and physical fatigue associated with such immense loss of human life is leading to burnout among the very group that is required to address this disease. 2020, September 20).

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Community Internal Medicine Chronic Disease IT 52