Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

By removing the need to constantly look at a screen or type notes, we can be more present and engaged, fostering stronger therapeutic relationships and improving patient satisfaction. We have seen explosive growth and become a cornerstone of modern health care systems. This isn’t about replacing your clinical judgment.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 18 – Remedying Health Inequities Driven by the Carceral System Show Notes by Ayana Watkins October 18, 2022 Summary: This episode highlights the history and roots of the carceral system, as well as its far-reaching impacts on the health of women and children today.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

AUGUST 25, 2020

It is important to understand that police brutality not only impacts individuals with direct relationships to those afflicted by this violence but also has widespread effects on the entire Black community. This starts with self-education and a commitment to speak up when blatant examples of racism come up in the work space and beyond.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 16, 2025

The American Thoracic Society’s 2015 study, “The Relationship of Mucus Concentration (Hydration) to Mucus Osmotic Pressure and Transport in Chronic Bronchitis,” found that clearing excess mucus is a significant factor in protecting the lungs from “inhaled infectious and noninfectious challenges.”

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 7, 2021

In March 2020, FDA issued a final rule that banned the use of Graduated Electronic Decelerators (GEDs) to treat patients with severe self-injurious and aggressive behaviors (SIB/AB), but did not restrict the use of these same devices for other purposes, like smoking cessation. Walsh & Jeffrey N.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 8, 2023

In February 2020, FDA granted a de novo classification request (DEN190040) for software intended to assist medical professionals in the acquisition of cardiac ultrasound images and that included a PCCP for future software modifications. See 21 CFR 807.81(a)(3) a)(3) and 21 CFR 814.39(a) a) , and related guidance documents (e.g.,

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A 2020 RCT of coaching for primary care physicians shows that coaching improves burnout well-being during the intervention and has a sustained duration at 6 months of follow up. Summary Transcript Summary Coaching is in. When I was a junior faculty, coaching wasn’t a thing. We address: What is coaching? How does it differ from therapy?

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

At this time, FDA is continuing to grant applicants an automatic 360 days to respond to requests for additional information pursuant to its Effects of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency on Formal Meetings and User Fee Applications for Medical Devices — Questions and Answers (Revised) (June 2020). through the refuse to accept process).

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 23, 2021

As someone who studied in the fields of public health, medical sociology, and biomedical ethics, I was impressed with how quickly the pharmaceutical and biotechnology arena caught up with what took many decades to occur in the context of the physician-patient relationship. The practice of medicine was viewed as paternalistic.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

We debate the merits of use of CGM in the nursing home and other late life settings (Eric and I argue against CGM and lose). Ozempic is a new fancy med that, by the way, leads to weight loss among celebrities, resulting in shortages of the drug from people using it off-label for that purpose. Listen in to learn more! Nadine: I do. Good choice.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out!

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

Episode Learning Objectives After listening to this episode, learners will be able to: Illustrate the relationship between narrative medicine and healing relationships. What the term gestures towards is the centering of the ‘story’ in healing relationships. The show notes for this episode were written by Sudarshan Krishnamurthy.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

By preventing Black and Brown people from developing relationships with the land and using it as a way of forming social connection, as well as communal sustenance, structural racism manifests along lines of race and place. She asks to think about what we are doing today to make it easier for people to live in the future. Be curious.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38129210. Kleinman, A. Accepting This Poem by Mark Nepo [link] Saks, N.,

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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. Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. Welcome to GeriPal, Lyndsay.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. I’ve seen this question come up a lot since finishing fellowship nearly two decades ago.

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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

A workgroup convened in 2020 found that the existing practice categories candidates could choose were inadequate to the real scope of community practice and proposed updates drawn from the American Medical Association and the Diplomate Professional Profile.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Pearls: In 2020, American Indian and Alaska Native (Indigenous) communities experienced the highest drug overdose mortality rate of any racial or ethnic group, also surpassing rates among the non-Hispanic white population. Once the need for labor was largely met, anti-Chinese narratives (e.g., Academic Psychiatry , 45 (1), 78–83.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

All of this contributes to various mental health challenges that are consistent with surveillance in not only a wider police-state but also the patient-physician relationship. Siddiqui October 31, 2023 Summary : This episode highlights the culture of food shaming and anti-fatness as it relates to anti-Blackness. is rooted in anti-Blackness.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Jasmine: It’s an imaginative love story that deconstructs age through an intergenerational friend relationship. Jasmine: It’s an imaginative love story that deconstructs age through an intergenerational friend relationship. You were on a National Academy of Sciences committee started in 2020? I hope I got that right.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Summary Transcript Summary. Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? We discussed it with today’s guests Heather Coats, palliative care NP-scientist, and Thor Ringler, poet. It wasn’t until the end that the best term emerged – storycatching. It’s since spread to over 70 VAs.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

1.740), stating that: If the applicant for patent term extension was not the marketing applicant before the regulatory agency, then there must be an agency relationship between the patent owner and the marketing applicant during the regulatory review period. must demonstrate its agency relationship with the NDA holder (Biogen, Inc.)

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

Applying a critical race lens to relationship-centered care in pregnancy and childbirth: An antidote to structural racism. Published online August 2020. National Birth Equity Collaborative Annual Report 2020-2021. and a professor.” This policy reflects a societal belief that humans are not valuable unless they provide a service.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

But before we go into that topic, I think, Liz, you got a song request for Alex. Liz: That’s right. It’s called the Beginning of the End and it’s by Weezer. Eric: Why’d you pick this song? Liz: So I used to be the drummer in a punk rock band. And so- Eric: Get out of here. Liz: No, it’s true. Eric: Lucky Strike.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Well-being committees are popping up at every level of an organization. And C-suites now have chief wellness officers sitting at the table. Eric 01:54 Why’d you pick this song, Naomi? Naomi 01:57 Because it really talks about this beautiful experience of our beloved, which is ourselves, the part that we often cut out of the equation.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

So I think just as much as we focus on the science and the evidence, it’s important to think about the art of how we apply that to people and the relationships and all of the great fun stuff, the stories that unfold in the exam room alongside the science itself. We answered the survey and handed it in. Eric 00:18 Throwing us off.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I cant do the primary thing Ive been trained to do: ABC, ABC, ABCs. 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. They got training in Vital Talk and ELNEC. They got feedback. So did it matter? Fernanda 01:16 I do have a song request.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

From just the abstracts we had so many questions. We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. Which is it? Whos got the right of it? We’ll see. Have to see.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Mariah discussed her JAGS paper on applying a trauma-informed approach to home visits. 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. Mariah, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Mariah 00:29 Glad to be here. Here we go.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

METHOD The cross-sectional study was conducted on family physicians and family health staff working in primary care family health centers in Üsküdar district of Istanbul with a population of 520,771 between 25-29 December 2020 [4]. Jour Turk Fam Phy 2020; 11 (1): 95-101. 150 (54.3) p<0.001 Doctor 83 (65.9) 126 (45.7) 162 (58.7)

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

This graph illustrates that the benefit of long-term GP-patient relationships is even dose-dependent (longer GP-patient-relationship = lower risk of dying prematurely): Why do long-term GP-patient relationships improve health and reduce costs? 29 Source: OECD Health Statistics 2020 (without dental care) 29 8.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary To my teenagers, climate change is an existential crisis. It’s the end of the world as we know it. They decry the lack of serious attention and prioritization this issue has in the US. My kids ask – why don’t adults care about this issue the same way that they and their friends care about it? Ruth: Thank you.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

December 2020. Training Hospitalists in Negotiations to Address Conflicts with Older Adults around Their Social Needs. Geriatrics. Conflicts Experienced by Caregivers of Older Adults With the Health-Care System. Journal of Patient Experience. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. So… Alex: That’s good. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Eric: And why’d you pick that song? Vickie: It just reminds me of how important collegial support and being with each other is. Alex: Great choice. Eric: Thank you, Alex.All right, let’s jump into the topic at hand, loss and grief. I want to start off by turning to Matt. Matt, tell me about the book that you just published.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary You may have heard of Area Agencies on Aging, but do you really know what they do or how they do it? What about State Departments of Aging or state master plans for aging? Do you know how these agencies fit in with programs like Meals-on-Wheels or other nutritional support programs? Susan: It is my anthem.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

The impossiblity which is life, which is everything, and death, which is the end of life. As Mary Oliver tells us In Blackwater Woods , and I’m paraphrasing here, we must to hold it to our bones, knowing our lives depend on it, and when the time comes, to let it go. To let it go. . Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 8, 2025

The research, published this week in Safety Science , collected data from 562 recreational surfers from 2020 to 2023. Researchers found that for every 100 surfs, respondents on average gave beachgoers safety advice 11.6 times, first aid 0.4 times and assistance in the water 1.1 This study helps to quantify surfers impact on community safety.

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