Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study using electronic health record data from March 1, 2020, to Aug. from Massachusetts General Hospital, said in a statement. Vinod Rao, M.D., “Our study supports the use of telehealth for ADHD stimulant therapy in clinical settings.”

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Noreta Family Medicine

MAY 21, 2024

I recently organized several CPR classes for Noreta Family Medicine patients as well as their family and friends. Damar Hamlin’s collapse during an NFL game in January 2023 inspired me to want to hold these CPR classes (although I admit it took a while to arrange!). Learn CPR! Have a good week! Read My Latest News!

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Take influenza, which annually sends from 140,000 to 710,000 people to hospitals, most of them seniors, and is fatal to 10% of hospitalized older adults. Compared with the standard flu shot, the enhanced vaccines reduced the risk of hospitalization from the flu in older adults, by at least 11% and up to 18%.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To assess the epidemiology and mortality risk among patients discharged from AMCs in the US from Oct 2019 to Dec 2023. The study is divided into three periods: pre-COVID (Oct 2019 to Mar 2020), COVID (Apr 2020 to May 2023), and post-COVID (Jun 2023 to Dec 2023). Mixed models were used for analysis.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 1, 2025

A retrospective analysis of characteristics of 15 consecutive years of code stroke cases at a hospital in Barcelona, Spain, found that patients who were ultimately diagnosed with migraine headache with aura (1.1%) were more likely to be younger, female, and have fewer vascular risk factors than patients with ischemic strokes.

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Barton Associates

MAY 29, 2025

Despite projected shortages, the overall job outlook for a doctor in the United States is positive— according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) , overall employment of physicians is projected to grow 4% between 2023 and 2033, which is as fast as the average for all occupations, healthcare or otherwise.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 8, 2025

The authors urged readers to make the elimination of nuclear weapons an urgent public health priority, reiterating a 2023 editorial on similar themes : Any use of nuclear weapons would be catastrophic for humanity. The world is woefully unprepared for the health consequences of the use of a single nuclear device, much less a nuclear war.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients. Nevertheless, the U.S.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

She is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). These include population-specific adaptations of DBT, attachment-based family therapy, and increasing research on effective interventions for minority youth.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

She is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Jeffrey Bridge, a leading researcher at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital. 2023 Apr;21(2):166-7. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America.

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 7, 2024

After a year of various health struggles, including two amputations, Dee’s wound is finally healed and she’s found comfort in the staff that treats her like family. But 2023 was a really bad year for me between the infection and everything. They don’t treat you like a patient, they treat you like family.”

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: From September 2023 to February 2024, our team distributed a comprehensive survey to the care team. Objective: Assess the care team’s experiences and gather feedback on the AI-enabled clinical deterioration pathway, including both the prediction tool and collaborative workflows that follow.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Patients visiting the EDs from 1 March 2021 to 27 July 2023 randomly selected based on their visit date and time. The final analysis showed that age, gender and hospital location are associated with patient ED care experience. A p-value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 10, 2025

from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in California, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study from June 2019 to August 2023 at a single institution’s outpatient gynecology clinic involving 205 premenopausal women aged 18 to 54 years: 116 with AUB and 89 with normal menstrual cycles. Salcedo, D.O.,

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

“That’s what tends to get people into trouble,” Dr. Hannah Hays of Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, said. Between 2018 and 2023, tianeptine-related calls to U.S. “They use it for opioid-like effects or to self-treat opioid withdrawal and that can lead to slow breathing and problems like that.”

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Insurance companies have promised changes like these before, in 2018 and 2023, but many didn’t follow through, Dr. Mehmet Oz , head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said. Adam Gaffney , a critical care doctor and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, told NBC News.

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PEMBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Tell families that this rash will always look worse on days 2,3, and 4 an to not be alarmed. Your hospital might even have a specific clinic to follow this up – like the PATS – Penciling Allergy Testing Service at Cincinnati Children’s. Updated 2023 Aug 28]. References Rixe N, Tavarez MM. Serum Sickness.

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PEMBlog

MAY 1, 2025

Counsel families and caregiversincluding pregnant household contactson the risks, exposures, and infection control considerations related to Parvovirus B19. It is a non-enveloped, single-stranded DNA virus in the Parvoviridae family. Sometimes I share it with patients and families. UpToDate , Jun. Parvoviruses. But what is it?

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This case was submitted by Dr. Andrea De Jesús Martínez Chief PEM Fellow at Baylor College of Medicine | Texas Children’s Hospital Instagram: @bcm_pemfellows Co-author: Benjamin Silva, MD, MPH The Case A 4-year-old male with no significant past medical history presents with headache and vomiting. 2023, doi:10.7759/cureus.33652

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

In 2023, Florida Gov. They also argue that banning the products could hurt the thousands of jobs and millions in revenue the industry brings each year, the AP added in its report. Texas is not the only state to reconsider limits on THC consumables. More information The National Institutes of Health has more on tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 10, 2025

which changed its name to BowFlex in 2023, CBS News reported. The recalled weights are popular because they allow users to switch between different weights without needing a full rack of dumbbells. But the CPSC says the adjustable design may pose a safety hazard. The recalled units include 3.7 million sets sold by Nautilus Inc.,

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PEMBlog

JULY 17, 2023

this is an updated version for July 2023 Replace a G-tube Gastrostomy tube dislodgment and malfunction are top causes for G-tube related ED visits in pediatric patients so it is important to understand how to replace a G-tube. The original post was authored by Ashley Endres in 2018. The steps on how to insert a new G-tube occurs at minute 11.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design Retrospective chart review of patients seen in a palliative care clinic between June 2023 and August 2023. The Supportive Medicine Clinic (SMC) provides palliative care integrated within the divisions of pulmonology and cardiology, operating as a hospital-based outpatient clinic.

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Evaluate the use of phenobarbital and benzodiazepines in alcohol withdrawal to compare lengths of hospital stay, total medication dose, and other clinical outcomes. Setting or Dataset: Emergency departments at two hospitals in one metropolitan area in the U.S. Study Design: Secondary data analysis. days; PB median 5.8 [IQR

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: We started with 29,620 deliveries at IHC between May 1, 2009, and May 31, 2023. Setting: IHC, Iowa City, IA. We excluded deliveries complicated by known RFs for PTB (n=12,646). The final dataset included 16,974 deliveries among 13,339 mothers.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In Ontario, Canada, pharmacists were given authority to deliver service for 19 MAs as of October 1, 2023. Setting: Ontario, Canada Study Design and Analysis: This study used linked health administrative data, including pharmacist billing for MA services, patient demographics, and physician and hospital billing data, collected for 15.4

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Common Sense Family Doctor

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

For more great reads, feel free to browse my lists from 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , and 2015-2020. The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town , by Brian Alexander 5. Hope this list helps with your holiday shopping! ** 1. Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks , by Caitlin Rivers 2. Perry Wilson 6.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

adults participating in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2021 to 2023). Agbaje, M.D., from University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio, examined whether new WHtR cut points predict liver steatosis and fibrosis. The analysis included data from 6,464 multiracial U.S.

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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.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. And there are no default pathways of family or friends to rely on and no known people who could potentially represent this person from within their inner circle.

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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. The more we can notice that, the more we can actually be present for that family and actually see how they’re experiencing it. Family member, and with some chagrin- Eric: Powerful nudge. Pain Manag Nurs.

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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. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine. LaVera: Yes.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. 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.

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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. So I just can’t keep going. Alex: That’s great. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I was very close with my grandparents growing up, and then I actually was exposed to geriatrics as a pre-med student at Yale New Haven Hospital as one of the volunteers and Dr. Sharon Inouye’s initial help trial and had a fabulous role model Dr. Verano, who I wanted to be. Ryan: Actually, a very similar story as to Jerry.

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