Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

Violence in hospital emergency departments (EDs) has reached crisis levels. For physicians, nurses, medical assistants, and support staff, workplace violence (WPV) is now a daily hazard, inflicting physical injury, emotional trauma, and eroding the quality of patient care. The Warner Bros.

Healthcare 59

Healthcare Emergency Room Physicals Healthcare Professional 59

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. I think for families and for other providers who are not trained in that, it’s very hard to predict. And I think it’s something to consider that at some point, we talked to caregivers families about perhaps not focusing on the encephalopathy.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. She entertained her family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, you’re having your family, Christmas coming up. You’re going to go traveling to Hawaii with your family, and, you know, you want to die in January.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We would find these people in the hospital, and we said, “What would you have thought if someone had come up to you in the emergency room yesterday, and said, ‘Hey, instead of going upstairs, you could go home.’ And then, the patient can bypass the emergency room entirely. We did our initial pilot study.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115