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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PEMBlog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Differentiating these pathogens based on clinical presentation is crucial for targeted management, minimizing unnecessary diagnostic tests, and optimizing healthcare resources. Updated 2023 Jan 23]. Updated 2023 Jun 20]. Features, Evaluation, and Treatment of Coronavirus (COVID-19) [Updated 2023 Aug 18].

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 28, 2023

We’ve published 45 podcasts in 2023 and have had a total of 400,000 downloads, plus another 40,000 views on YouTube. appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. It’s been a big year for the GeriPal podcast.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Palliative medicine focuses on quality of life for patients with serious illnesses. Objective Describe the population of patients referred to a palliative care clinic and observe their healthcare utilization patterns. Population Studied 30 adult patients actively receiving care from the SMC between June 2023 and August 2023.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Patients with psychosis caused by medical illness usually have abnormal vital signs, altered mental status, and impaired orientation with compromised intellectual function. Hosp Pediatr (2023) 13 (1): 66–71 Visual and tactile hallucinations (as opposed to auditory) are frequently prominent.

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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. This is Eric Widera.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

The EIB developed a first-of-its-kind tool to quantify how climate hazards like heatwaves, floods, and poor air quality will drive up healthcare demand across Europe. In the United States, extreme weather events and air pollution are already costing the healthcare system over $820 billion annually. So what’s the path forward?

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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. But they also did not do the DPOA for healthcare form. So there’s no healthcare surrogate. Yael 10:52 Yeah. What’s your next step?

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

-Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Really looking forward to the conversation.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. And so I think that’s why it has its moment now even in 2023. So I just can’t keep going. Alex: That’s great. I love this song.

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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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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. 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?

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. Really important person, who later in his life got very interested in healthcare. It’s now available. Could it be someone else?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Today we discuss a new paper in JAMA that tests a stripped down version of the clinician only facing intervention in a pragmatic randomized trial for older adults with serious illness and those 80+. Randy died February 26, 2023. They found a difference of 4% in documented goals of care discussions. Is 4% meaningful?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

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. Journal of Patient Experience. Transcript.

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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. Annals of Int Med.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Our conversation covers: The current state of COVID Evidence for COVID boosters, who should get them, and preferences between Novavax and mRNA vaccines COVID treatments like Molnupiravir and Paxlovid Differences in COVID impact on nursing home residents and those with serious illnesses We wrap up with a “magic wand” question.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This episode also covers what healthcare providers need to know about post-exposure prophylaxis, respiratory precautions, and managing occupational exposures. Coverage with Selected Vaccines and Exemption Rates Among Children in Kindergarten — United States, 2023–24 School Year. Available at: [link] Accessed December 3, 2024.

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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. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness. Now is the time to act, dear listeners! Start with a story as Carly did in her Op Ed. Stories trump data.

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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. Ken, I’m going to turn to you first and maybe ask you to maybe hone in on the geriatric seriously ill population.

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