PEMBlog

MAY 1, 2025

Learning Objectives Describe the classic and atypical clinical presentations of Parvovirus B19 infection in pediatric patients, including erythema infectiosum, arthropathy, transient aplastic crisis, and chronic anemia in immunocompromised hosts. UpToDate , Jun. link] Macri, Angela, and Crane, Jonathan S. Parvoviruses. Erythema Infectiosum.

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PEMBlog

MAY 17, 2023

Furthermore, the connection between physical and functional symptoms is inextricably linked in many patients. Diagnostic yield of head CT in pediatric emergency department patients with acute psychosis or hallucinations. Why then do we persist with the “is it medical/organic or psych” question? Pediatr Radiol 2019; 49:240.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 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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PEMBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Learning Objectives Describe the clinical presentation, epidemiology, and complications of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in pediatric patients, including its atypical manifestations. After a lull during the COVID 19 pandemic, cases reemerged in 2023 and continued to climb into 2024. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2025 Feb 17. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000003338.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Palliative medicine focuses on quality of life for patients with serious illnesses. Historically, palliative care has been predominantly provided in the inpatient setting, but there is a growing awareness that patients may also benefit from outpatient care. Results The patients in the SMC had a mean age of 71.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — In 2023, 48 states and the District of Columbia reported 2,770 human arboviral disease cases, with West Nile Virus (WNV) being the most common, according to research published in the June 12 issue of the U.S. in 2023 first appeared on Physician's Weekly. Hannah Padda, D.V.M.,

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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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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 I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive. Is the patient in your descriptor? Alex 10:41 No, they don’t.

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PEMBlog

MAY 24, 2023

Patient that are agitated should always be treated with dignity and respect. Structured team approach to the agitated patient in the emergency department. This entails utilizing the least invasive non-pharmacologic means of assisting them, before moving to physical or chemical restraints. Emerg Med Clin North Am. doi: 10.1016/j.emc.2009.07.003.

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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. The patient case. I think the theme is more saving someone’s life and the regret that follows.

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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. In one room the physician under study interacts with a white patient-actor, and in another room interacts with a Black patient-actor. 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. And that’s an ADC of two to three patients a day. JAMA Health Forum.

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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 illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. I think even the word patient, patient, I think, comes from the word suffer, the one who suffers. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Today we talk with Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician at St.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Updated 2023 Jul 17]. Her name is Emily Groopman, and she’s a current resident at Children’s National Hospital. identifying which specific IEM the patient has is part of the later long term evaluation, typically with the help of your friendly geneticist. References Jeanmonod R, Asuka E, Jeanmonod D.

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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. Is that your grandchildren?

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

On that podcast he and collaborators tested a combined patient and clinician facing communication priming intervention to promote goals of care conversations. Randy died February 26, 2023. Eric and I also reflect on the podcast Randy generously did with us on his experience living with and studying serious illness.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Journal of Patient Experience. Dealing with conflict in caring for the seriously ill: “it was just out of the question” JAMA 2005. I mean, it’s something that frustrates me on a daily basis, the number of times that I’ve had to argue with patients and even my own grandparents. Geriatrics. December 2020.

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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

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. All good ones.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 4, 2025

So as of the 2023-24 school year, about 3.3% 2023 translates to about 80,000 kids in the United States, and vaccination coverage varies across states. So in the 2023-24 school year. of their patients were fully vaccinated, five and a half percent were under vaccinated, and 3% were unvaccinated. Unfortunately. Interesting.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Clinicians could care for patients across state lines, could prescribe opioids without in person visits, could bill at higher rates for telemedicine than previous to the pandemic. Many patients benefited, not only those isolating due to covid, but also patients in rural areas, patients who are homebound, and many others.

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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. Infants with apnea, cyanosis, or feeding difficulties should obviously be admitted to the hospital.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. Insurers have used prior authorization for decades to limit fraud, prevent patient harm, and control costs. . For most patients, though, the process works seamlessly. BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. —

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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. I’m asking you, have you ever walked in and talked to a black, older black patient and used their first name?

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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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