2023, Illness, Individual and Patient-Centered

Aftershock in Academia: Assessing COVID-19s Impact on Schizophrenia Patients in Academic Medical Centers [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals with schizophrenia who are admitted to academic medical centers (AMCs) has not been previously reported. Objective: To examine the epidemiology and mortality among schizophrenia patients discharged from AMCs in the U.S. from Oct 2019 to Dec 2023.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Patients Medical Illness

Parvo Podcast! Erythema Infectiosum, Fifth Disease, and more!

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. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. link] Macri, Angela, and Crane, Jonathan S.

Complication

Complication Patient-Centered Patients Clinic

Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross

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.

Illness

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients

Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Is the patient in your descriptor?

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare

The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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. Our guests are BJ Miller, palliative care physician and c-founder of Mettle Health , and Naomi Saks, chaplain at UCSF.

IT

IT Families Family Physicals

What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

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.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare

PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population.

Healthcare

Healthcare IT Community Illness

RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. These studies are important. Randomized controlled trials of chaplaincy interventions.

IT

IT Patient-Centered Families Family

Negotiation and Dispute Resolution: A Podcast with Lee Lindquist and Alaine Murawski

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.

Families

Families Family IT Patient-Centered

Despite Historic Indictment, Doctors Will Keep Mailing Abortion Pills Across State Lines

Physicians News Digest

MAY 12, 2025

It’s frustrating,” said Angel Foster, co-founder of the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project, a clinic near Boston that mails mifepristone and misoprostol pills to patients in states with abortion bans. It was unclear when those tests would come, and would it be against an individual provider or a practice or organization?”

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Family Families Patients

Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We talk with Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones about the hospital-at-home movement, which has been shown to reduce costs, improve outcomes and improve the patient experience. JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Hospital

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT

COVID Updates: A Podcast with Peter Chin-Hong and Lona Mody

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.

Vaccination

Vaccination IT Patient-Centered Patients

Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified

Not Only Harvard. RFK Jr.’s Slashed Science Funding Cuts Across States That Backed Trump

Physicians News Digest

APRIL 17, 2025

in 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 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. That’s when he got the notice from the NIH. “It

Vaccination

Vaccination Government Patient-Centered Hospital

Primary Care Digest

Aftershock in Academia: Assessing COVID-19s Impact on Schizophrenia Patients in Academic Medical Centers [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Parvo Podcast! Erythema Infectiosum, Fifth Disease, and more!

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Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross

Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

Negotiation and Dispute Resolution: A Podcast with Lee Lindquist and Alaine Murawski

Despite Historic Indictment, Doctors Will Keep Mailing Abortion Pills Across State Lines

Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

COVID Updates: A Podcast with Peter Chin-Hong and Lona Mody

Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

Not Only Harvard. RFK Jr.’s Slashed Science Funding Cuts Across States That Backed Trump

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