The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

billion people were living with vision loss in 2020, and it is forecasted to reach 1.7 Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. Originally, the companies promised to put the digital contact lens on the market around 2020.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 16, 2025

A 2020 study, “Herbal Medicine for Acute Bronchitis: A Qualitative Interview Study of Patients’ and Health Professionals’ Views,” published in Complementary Therapies in Medicine showed that many UK patients expressed an interest in herbal remedies to avoid unnecessary antibiotics. . Sign up today.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

Since the mid-1990s, our capacity for innovation has never stopped as hospitalists navigate a complex landscape of acute illnesses, interprofessional collaborations and the imperative to provide efficient, high-quality care. Clinician burnout and its impact on healthcare delivery: A narrative review. Healthcare (Basel).

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

After all, Lilly offered access to treatment for critically ill patients in financial need who would otherwise have to forego treatment or be saddled with a $13,000 per year copay. OIG disagreed.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

FDA recognizes that the FD&C Act exempts licensed healthcare practitioners from certain device regulations if they manufacture devices solely for use in the course of their professional practice. The PR goes on to state that the FD&C Act definition of a device does not turn on where or by whom a test system is “manufactured.”

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

AUGUST 25, 2020

Public health advocate, leader, and scholar, Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones , is credited for creating the framework many healthcare professionals and researchers use to think about systemic racism’s impacts on Black health. N Engl J Med 2020; 383:197-199. N Engl J Med. 2016;375(22):2113-2115. Feldman, Rashawn Ray, Keon L. Gilbert, Kevin A.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Recurrent epilepsy In children with known seizure disorders, a new seizure can be due to the seizure disorder itself as well as medication non-adherence, sub-therapeutic antiepileptic dosing, or a lowered seizure threshold due to an acutely ill state. Glucose We all need it. 2000; 55(5):616-623.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

And why is it important when we’re caring for older adults or those with serious illness? I will say that we stopped the trial in March of 2020, which was when COVID started. ” their minds have been elsewhere in terms of healthcare delivery. Because we bring it up a lot. Ariel, you want to take that question?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Canada, most of the population relies on their family doctor for their mental healthcare needs. The time horizon was anchored in January 2012: pre-pandemic period was defined as January 2012 to March 2020, and the pandemic period as April 2020 to June 2022. In April 2020 the MHV rate rose to 0.141/month.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Our Black and Hispanic patients are less likely to have had trust-building experiences and more likely to have had trust-eroding experiences with the healthcare system. As she embarked on her project, she realized that improving serious illness care would require improving serious illness communication.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Should we use Ozempic (if we can find it) in patients with serious illness, which often results in undesirable and profound weight loss? There’s this great article and I’ll send it to you all, it’s called End-of-Life Care Requires Caution With Use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring, JPM, from 2020.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Tell me about your illness.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And we have Scott Halpern, who is Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and Director of the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center or Payer Center at the University of Pennsylvania. What I’m saying is the entire field of serious illness care has for decades been plagued by a really weak evidence base.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Ann: Well, I think teamwork is key in this space and I am a big baseball fan, big Red Sox fan, which is not a good thing to be right now, but I really think it’s indicative of how we should all be working together on this team to help our seriously ill patients. Ann: No, he was very excited. So we used a lot of rehab to death.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

We really spent a lot of time helping the clinicians see that a patient’s illness, understanding and prognostic awareness was just as important as their pain scale, their pain score. The patient refuses to ever talk about the fact that this illness could take their life. Lynn, what were you doing in Covid 2020?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

On today’s podcast, we talk with Jane Thomas , Naomi Saks , and Ishwaria Subbiah about the concepts of wellness, well-being, resilience, and burnout, as well as what can be done to truly improve the lives of healthcare providers and bring, I dare say it, joy into our work. I mean, in other work, hard work environments as well.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. I guess the question for you, Naomi, is as a chaplain, what is the role do you think of the other healthcare providers, the nurses, the doctors, the pharmacists in broaching spiritual suffering, existential suffering? Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? Eric 10:55 So one serious illness.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

I feel like, you know, even before the pandemic, certainly during the pandemic, we talk a lot about the grit and the resilience of healthcare and healthcare workers and, you know, the amazing drive that they have and the amazing ability that they have to connect with people. That was January 2020. We’ve got to do that.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I think that’s something we’ve seen even with the most recent issues that came out, not new issues, but came to the surface with the racial reckoning that we saw in 2020 related to murders and deaths and killings and that sort of stuff that helps to reshape how we refer to different groups of individuals in our community.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

I’m just thinking we all went through a major traumatic event in 2020 and the subsequent years. And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home. So we all went through a pandemic. I guess that’s an event.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. I think that we forget that the clinical encounter is very often just two people in a room experiencing each other, and that that’s what is the beginning of that sacred space of healthcare and healing.” To let it go. . ” Alex: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

That was the lesson I learned from reading a new book edited by Matt Loscalzo along with Marshall Forstein called “ Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals ”. Eric: We’re going to be talking about loss and grief and the role of debriefing for healthcare providers.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

We sought to analyse how prescribing trends have changed over time, utilising a dataset containing all prescriptions signed and dispensed in the UK by primary care facilities from January 2014 to November 2020. Despite the spike in prescribing of insulins, oral antidiabetic medications were not similarly affected.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

December 2020. Dealing with conflict in caring for the seriously ill: “it was just out of the question” JAMA 2005. I chose, not healthcare management, which a lot of my colleagues have done, but I actually chose negotiation and dispute resolution, which I thought was fun, as well as marketing. Geriatrics.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary In March 2020, we launched our first podcast on COVID-19. Eric 03:29 Lona, I am not sure you remember this, but over four years ago, March, mid March of 2020, we did a podcast on a novel respiratory virus that was coming out of Wuhan. I remember that early American Idol is so good. Thank you, Peter.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

Eric: All right, before we start talking about COVID in older adults and those with serious illness, do you have a song request for Alex? it was April, 2020. We’re actually lower of COVID deaths in this country than we’ve ever been since March of 2020. So really very honored to have you on here. Monica: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Eric 30:42 Trump did a MoCA in 2020, I remember that he did the OmoC ever. If it’s 2020 or a Democrat and people were talking about Trump having dementia. The post Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary I read Farah Stockmans article in the NYT on why attacks on DEI will cost us all , and thought, Yes, and everyone includes harm to our healthcare workforce, our patients, and their families. I took my kids in 2019, 2020. So it’s 2020. We have to really transcend this. It’s the pandemic.

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