Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

APRIL 12, 2025

Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the field will grow by 15 percent from 2023 to 2033 , which is higher than the average for roles that provide support to healthcare professionals. Some medical assistants work in the offices of other health practitioners, outpatient care centers, or hospitals.

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 7, 2024

It’s important to be able to trust your caregivers, and here at Logansport Memorial, we go above and beyond to develop relationships with our patients and provide personalized, high-quality care for our community. But 2023 was a really bad year for me between the infection and everything. But then I got the flu.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 20 – Medical Racism and Indigenous Peoples Show Notes by Sudarshan (“Sud”) Krishnamurthy April 4, 2023 Summary: This episode highlights the checkered past of medicine and the advancements in the field that have occurred at the expense of the humanity of Indigenous peoples.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

In this episode we dive into the resurgence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae an atypical bacterial cause of community-acquired pneumonia thats making waves in pediatric emergency medicine. Mycoplasma pneumoniae as a Cause of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Children. Plus, well discuss whether M. Plus, well discuss whether M. 2025 Feb 17.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Tsai has seen race-based medicine play out in clinical practice 10:45 What role should race play in making clinical decisions? 13:16 Status of the current conversation on removing race from eGFR calculators: why is it so contentious? Poet Marge Piercy has written, “The work of the world is as common as mud.”

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 20, 2024

ECPR involves using ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) to take over heart and lung functions, offering a last-resort option that is becoming more common in large pediatric hospitals. The episode highlights the importance of understanding eCPR as a critical therapy for both in-hospital and out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Bronchopulmonary sequestration is a rare type of congenital lung malformation (CLM) in which a section of lung tissue is nonfunctional and does not communicate with the normal tracheobronchial tree. 2023 Jul 24. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2023 Jan–. Clin Perinatol. 2022 Dec;49(4):907-926. doi: 10.1016/j.clp.2022.08.003.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

According to the announcement, enabling patients to access medical devices beyond traditional clinical settings can help close the healthcare gap by delivering care “directly to patients, wherever they are – at home, at work, in cities, in rural communities.” By Philip Won & McKenzie E. We previously blogged on the draft guidance here.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

JAMA IM 2023 A shout-out to my NPR episode on 1A titled the “State of Hospice Care” DISCLAIMER While we filmed in Montreal during the Annual Assembly, all opinions expressed in this podcast are independent of AAHPM and HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. JAMA IM 2021 Hospice Acquisitions by Profit-Driven Private Equity Firms. JAMA Health Forum.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

MONDAY, June 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will fund studies of the long-term health effects of a 2023 Ohio train derailment that released more than 1 million pounds of hazardous chemicals into the soil, air and water. Allison also praised the decision to involve the community in shaping the research.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I’ve seen this question come up a lot since finishing fellowship nearly two decades ago. Historically, answers generally lamented the ever increasing need for geriatrics without a corresponding growth in the number of specialists in the field. Mike, welcome to GeriPal. Mike: Great to be here. Alex: We’ll take any Warriors we can get.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve covered psychedelics on the podcast beforefirst in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine , and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theora Cimino, focusing on the reasons to approach psychedelic use in patients with caution. James 00:32 Good afternoon.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions. Alex 02:21 For Eric 02:21 For unrepresented older adults. But before we go into that topic, Tim, I think you have a song request. Tim 02:29 Yeah, it’s such an honor to make a song request. Can you guys do that one?

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. Today we talk with Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician at St. Homelessness? Marginally housed?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38129210. Kleinman, A. The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. Naomi: Yes, I do. Everybody Hurts by REM.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And so I think that’s why it has its moment now even in 2023. It also feels like, I also grew up in med school in a three hospital system. There’s the variation between the hospitals, feels like there’s cultural issues that play a role. But before we go into that, Amber, I think you got a song request for Alex.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. These studies are important. The theme is death. It’s very poignant.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This 2022 draft guidance proposed that certain non-addictive medical products for pain or addiction treatment could be eligible for breakthrough designation, aligning with the Agency’s obligations under the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention That Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act. Emphasis added.)

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Listen Gun Violence and Safety (2023) – Brad Sobolewski, MD, MEd – featuring Kit Carney, MD & Kristen Humphrey, MD – PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast [link] Subscribe Advocacy and education resources Be SMART Campaign Be SMART emphasizes the importance of responsible gun ownership and secure gun storage.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

29, 2023) (“Basis”); NPRM at 44,603. The 2016 reviews concluded that marijuana continued to meet schedule I criteria for having a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the U.S., and lacked accepted safety for use under medical supervision. 21 U.S.C. § 21 U.S.C. § NPRM at 44,619. NPRM at 44,601.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. We would admit them to the hospital. Who doesn’t want to leave the hospital? Eric: I love this.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Conflicts Experienced by Caregivers of Older Adults With the Health-Care System. Journal of Patient Experience. December 2020. Dealing with conflict in caring for the seriously ill: “it was just out of the question” JAMA 2005. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. On today’s podcast we talk with Malaz Boustani of Indiana University, as well as Diane Ty, the senior director of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging, about the GUIDE model. It requires a fight.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The governors (of Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey and New York) thanked the President for his leadership in directing the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) to reconsider the current scheduling of cannabis and HHS’ August 2023 rescheduling recommendation to the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”).

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 25, 2025

Before becoming a core faculty member at the Lancaster General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program , I spent more than 15 years teaching in Georgetown's family medicine department. And yet, there is neither a funding stream nor a cohesive research community to do so. And if you build it, will they come?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Alex 00:07 We are delighted to welcome back Lona Mody, who is a geriatrician, translational infectious disease researcher, and professor at the University of Michigan and the Ann Arbor Va. Lona, welcome back to GeriPal. Lona 00:21 It’s great to be here. Peter, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Peter 00:36 A pleasure to be on Alex and Eric.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Cuts to Medicaid and other federal health programs proposed in President Donald Trump’s budget plan would rapidly push more than 300 financially struggling rural hospitals toward a fiscal cliff, according to researchers who track the facilities’ finances. “People will die” if rural hospitals close, he said.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2023

“Gillette” Gillette-Pierce May 2, 2023 Summary: This episode highlights the psychosocial and cultural considerations for providing healthcare to immigrant and refugee populations. Many organizations, such as the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, recommend against documenting immigration status in medical records.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Coverage with Selected Vaccines and Exemption Rates Among Children in Kindergarten — United States, 2023–24 School Year. Greater than 50 percent of kids under 12 months of age with pertussis could require hospitalization. Available at: [link] Accessed December 3, 2024. MMWR Seither R, Yusuf OB, Dramann D, et al.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

See the AAHPM Legislative Action Center [link] Write to the DEA, with guidance from AAHPM’s comments to the DEA March 2023. Start with a story as Carly did in her Op Ed. Stories trump data. Write to your congressperson. Joe: Great to be here. Welcome back to GeriPal, Brooke. Brooke: Thank you. Joe: I do. Eric: Wait, which version? Joe: Right.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

And it would end a strategic initiative to expand HIV services in minority communities, and another to support the mental health of people of color with HIV or at risk of infection. “But I am grateful that I am part of a community that will not bow down.” Gaunt and feverish, he went to the hospital and learned he had AIDS.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Ali talks about the history of affirmative action, which started as a program for Whites , the importance of diversity in the healthcare workforce , the history of allyship and cross cultural collaboration, and his own efforts to provide opportunity and support for historically oppressed groups in his own community to obtain healthcare careers.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 27, 2025

Nursing homes have struggled to replace licensed nurses, who can find better-paying jobs at hospitals and doctors’ offices, as well as nursing assistants, who can earn more working at big-box stores or fast-food joints. It also operates a retirement community in Washington, D.C.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 17, 2025

Harm to HIV, Vaccine Studies The NIH, with its nearly $48 billion annual budget, is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, awarding nearly 59,000 grants in the 2023 fiscal year. In November 2023, he told an anti-vaccine group, “I’m gonna say to NIH scientists, ‘God bless you all. Thank you for public service.

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