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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

“The population over 65, which often suffers the worst impact of respiratory viruses and others, now has the benefit of vaccines that can prevent much of that serious illness,” he said. “Season in and season out,” Schaffner said, “it produces outbreaks of serious respiratory illness that rivals influenza.”

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Using technology to reclaim our time

Today's Hospitalist

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. Metrics for assessing physician activity using electronic health record log data. Published May 13, 2024.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Not the most common circumstances that people with serious illness face where attention and understanding of what my goals and values are. Why are all these companies after me trying to get my money and get me an electronic wheelchair?

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. They were seriously ill and had a chance to get to know. And the goal about treating reversible illness that we tried to put in with that got taken out.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. But again, metabolic GI illness, interrupt other interruptions in feeding schedule, intense exercise. If the patient has a metabolic plan, whether it’s in their electronic medical record and or in their carrier gibbous fans. Inborn Errors of Metabolism. Pediatr Rev.

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

GeriPal

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. And so following that stream, sort of some of the most recent work was funded by the VA, first of all to develop a measure of spirituality for those in serious illness. Eric: LaVera, I got a question for you.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. You know, she would have had 90 really good years, and she would have just gone into a coma with no blood pressure and died, you know, with, like, a day and a half of illness. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.