PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Optimizing Advanced Imaging of the Pediatric Patient in the Emergency Department: Policy Statement. 2024-066854. 2024-066855.

Family 101

Family Families Hospital Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

How, though, do we navigate anxiety and help our patients who may end up in the anxiety spiral that becomes so hard to get out of? ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Something I’ll often point out to patients is, you know, how do you identify your emotions?

Illness 130

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

If the purpose of initiating dialysis is improving function – our complex, frail, older patients are likely to be disappointed. Are we seeing people like more older adults, more nursing home patients starting dialysis, and even at a higher gfr? So I wonder if I could turn to either of our nephrologists.

Management 117

Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 117

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.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. After doing her MD PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the genetic diagnosis of kidney disease, she started her residency training with the long term goal of being a physician scientist caring for patients with rare genetic disorders. Inborn Errors of Metabolism.

Consulting 59

Consulting Individual Family Families 59

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

We discuss, among other things: Findings that in several studies AI was rated by patients as more empathetic than human clinicians (not less, that isn’t a typo). The experience of both patients and clinicians isn’t very good. And I wonder, now, was this 2024 version sort of a redo? Quality isn’t very good.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 140

Medical Xpress

JUNE 23, 2025

40°C (101–104°F).

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Illness Engineering Medical Nurse Practitioner 53