The Medical Futurist

MAY 18, 2025

Robotic nurses dressing mannequins and bed-bathing patients Delicate movement, like gently handling an elderly patient is traditionally the most challenging task to robots, who are much faster developing in intellectual tasks than matching humans in fine-motor skills. Since then, the concept has become a reality.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Her academic interests include physical exam-focused medical education where she co-directs the Enhanced Clinical Skills Residency Track and serves as Investigator for the AMA Reimagining Residency Grant awarded to John Hopkins, Stanford, and UAB focused on studying clinical skills as it relates to resident wellness.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

19:05 Clarifying the “ethics vs science” argument and critiquing research techniques 22:00 Resurgence of race-based speculation in COVID-19-related research 25:57 Implantation of ideas about innate racial inferiority within medicine 28:32 Will removal of race from algorithms potentially harm our patients?

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions. It can differentiate between a physician’s questions and a patient’s responses and even filter out non-relevant small talk.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

More recently health professionals have seen a rise in MyChart messages coming in through the Epic patient portal. According to Epic, the number of patient messages spiked 151 percent nationally from the period covering the first 11 weeks of 2020 through the end of the year. Crucial that we fix this. Absolutely.

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BMJ

JULY 17, 2020

quarantine-breakers”) or video clips of people shouting at or even physically assaulting Wuhanese or people who visited Wuhan after the outbreak. Int J Soc Psychiatry 2020 (May 21; published online). How to reduce the negative psychological impact MRSA isolation on patients. Front Commun ́2020 (June 12; published online).

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Incarceration negatively affects the physical and mental health of people who are incarcerated as well as their family members and loved ones, and limits access to healthcare before, during, and after incarceration. All healthcare professionals will have patients who are directly or indirectly impacted by the carceral system.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

Disparities in Restraint Practices: Disparities in restraint practices are addressed, particularly the disproportionate use of physical and pharmacologic restraints on Black people. A Culturally Informed Approach to Supporting Suicidal Minoritized Patients. 2020 Nov 12;383(20):1904-1905. 2022;31(2):211-221. doi:10.1016/j.chc.2022.01.002

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 16, 2025

For those who desire medication for symptom relief, I suggest my patients try a common OTC medicine called guaifenesin, which can help to further thin the mucus.” “Hydration is very important, and drinking plenty of water helps to thin mucus and makes it easier to clear the airways.” Can chest congestion cause RSV?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

AUGUST 25, 2020

Police brutality Police brutality should be thought of as the ways state-sanctioned violence leads to the physical, psychological, and emotional harm of its victims. Jefferson & Hedwig Lee (2020) Illness spillovers of lethal police violence: the significance of gendered marginalization. N Engl J Med 2020; 383:197-199.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The PR takes on two specific statutory grounds raised by the June 22, 2020 HHS memo —the requirements for “interstate commercial” and “commercial distribution”—and argues that they are not impediments to FDA jurisdiction over LDTs.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Which patients are eligible to go to an ACE unit? So I picked the Ed Sheeran song, The A Team, because it reminds me of our ACE team that goes around the hospital and cares for our older patients. And a light bulb just went off in my head, like, yes, this makes sense as a model for how we should care for more complex older patients.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

In the second case, occurring from January to May 2020, a registered nurse, admitted to daily tampering of fentanyl vials and hydromorphone injectables wherein she removed the drugs from the vials replacing them with saline solution. See Press Release, DOJ, Danville Pharmacy Technician Sentenced for Federal Drug Charge (Aug. 4, 2022).

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

To determine whether a long-term neurodevelopmental safety study is necessary, the Guidance describes general considerations, patient and population-specific considerations, and product-specific considerations that should be considered. Patient/population-specific considerations include the timing and frequency of assessments.

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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.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A surrogate endpoint is a marker, such as a laboratory measurement, radiographic image, physical sign or other measure that is thought to predict clinical benefit but is not itself a measure of clinical benefit. 9,273,141 was submitted on September 18, 2020 (Docket No. 9,273,141 [] for [PTE] request under 35 U.S.C. §

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 2, 2022

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering describes computational modeling as “the use of computers to simulate and study complex systems using mathematics, physics and computer science.” NIH, Computational Modeling (May 2020). Similar techniques can be used to model complex biological systems.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice?

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 2, 2022

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering describes computational modeling as “the use of computers to simulate and study complex systems using mathematics, physics and computer science.” NIH, Computational Modeling (May 2020). Similar techniques can be used to model complex biological systems.

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Metro Family Physicians

APRIL 19, 2023

The 2019-2020 season INFLUENZA deaths in the US were 34,200 out of 35.5 By the 4th day, she was coughing & a little short of breath, which continued to worsen rapidly, so that on 4/15/2020, she had to go to the Emergency Room. Steph was intubated the morning of 4/17/2020, one of 52 patients on ventilators in the ICU.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Dr. Davila is a palliative care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and her work examines racial and ethnic inequities in patient-clinician communication. 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.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Take time to learn from your patients. Our patients are not just a list of problems. She encourages us to see beyond these problems, and ask patients about their lives, challenges, and successes. Published August 19, 2020. Be curious. Clinicians are incredibly privileged individuals. References Urban Health Lab.

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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. But watch out! Travel time can leave this champ vulnerable to fatigue and no-shows.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. The patient’s capacity to make decisions was marginal, and his sons were shouldering much of the responsibility.

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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. Eric: Yeah.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Identify ways to navigate clinical interactions with patients while respecting them and affirming their experiences with food and fatness. 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. References Cox, J.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

A 2024 study published in the journal Nature Medicine found that military veterans with brain injuries saw major mental and physical improvements after just one ibogaine session. Some studies suggest it may help people stop using opioids or other drugs, even after just one session. In Brazil, the therapy has helped thousands.

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Vida Family Medicine

APRIL 27, 2023

Often when a patient comes to me wanting to improve their health, they have put most of their focus on making changes to their diet and exercise. While nutrition and physical activity are certainly important for overall health, they are only one part of the big picture.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 2023.11.004.

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PEMBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Our role as providers is to identify the patients who have a life-threatening etiology to their syncope. History and physical examination are critical components to any emergency department evaluation but are especially helpful in syncope patients. 2020, pemcincinnati.com/blog/redflags-syncope/. 2017): 189-198.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient. It wasn’t until the end that the best term emerged – storycatching. What’s in a story?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

However, it is important to think about individual stories within the broader historical and sociocultural context; for instance, you cannot highlight stories in individual physician-patient dyads, without discussing mechanisms of racialized, historical, or sociocultural power and other larger structural forces. Abolition medicine.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

This achievement is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers in life science, physics, and computer science. Dr. Po-Ting Yeh, the studys first author, explains the challenge: "It is difficult to study the basic physiological functions controlled by the hypothalamus, which lies deep inside the brain.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

The FDA-approved indications for gabapentin are only for treating patients with partial seizures or postherpetic neuralgia. valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. There are a lot of reasons that may explain the massive increase in use of these drugs.

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

According to the CDC, “About 697,000 people in the United States died from heart disease in 2020– that’s 1 in every 5 deaths”. I urge patient’s to come face to face with what they are buying by saving receipts, then highlight the unhealthy foods and calculate $$$ spent. Convenience is often the motivating factor.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Physical exam Vital Signs: Temperature: 37.9 °C, Platelets 134 × 10 9 /L Alk phos 470 U/L AST 84 U/L ALT 40 U/L VBG pH 7.320, pCO2 81, HCO2 22 Urine Drug Screen positive for cannabinoids The patient had chest x-ray without any notable pathology. 2020 Jun 5;38:e2018158. doi: 10.1590/1984-0462/2020/38/2018158. mg/dL Hct 30.7%

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 11, 2021

DEA had issued a notice of proposed rulemaking in February 2020 (see our post here ). We note that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in December that over 81,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the year ending May 2020, the highest number ever recorded during a twelve-month period.

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