Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

Empowerment self-defense training protects emergency department staff, boosts confidence, enhances communication, and fosters a safer work environment. Violence in hospital emergency departments (EDs) has reached crisis levels. The emergency room has become a pressure cooker, and healthcare professionals are paying the price.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. So if one of my patients gets admitted, I also see them on the inpatient side of our hospital. I see them both inpatient and outpatient.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. This is Eric Widera. And I was terrified.

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Physicians News Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Health officials are urging the public to take preventive measures as hospitals nationwide grapple with a surge in influenza cases. According to the CDC , the onset of the 2024-2025 flu season has been marked by an unusually high number of cases.

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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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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Prior authorization varies by plan but often requires patients or their providers to get permission (also called precertification, preauthorization, or preapproval) before filling prescriptions, scheduling imaging, surgery, or an inpatient hospital stay, among other expenses. The practice isn’t new. Senate report.

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