Today's Hospitalist

JUNE 7, 2025

Medical societies and hospitals are weighing in on periprocedural concerns in patients taking GLP-1s who need procedures or surgeries. That’s according to two internists who work closely with hospitalized patients who take GLP-1s. “I would not recommend starting a GLP-1 in the hospital.” Nor should they be.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For the better half of 2024, I have been periodically writing posts that are individual articles that double as potential chapters to a future book. Before we discuss each individual savings account, let us first highlight exactly what it means to ‘automate’ your savings. Saving money is simple but not easy.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied – The Vizient® Clinical Data Base was queried for inpatient discharges between January 2016 and February 2024 with an ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for naegleriasis (B60.2). fowleri infections, reporting a broader age spectrum of affected individuals than traditionally reported.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

The law directs Texas universities and hospitals to lead the research. A 2024 study published in the journal Nature Medicine found that military veterans with brain injuries saw major mental and physical improvements after just one ibogaine session. However, we do not guarantee individual replies due to the high volume of messages.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So it’s just a wide-opening lens that most of us never really get to see if we’re on the hospital-based side. But what was really interesting is the transport to the hospital was actually going down in their system. .”

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In a redacted opinion published October 15, 2024 , the DDC granted FDA and intervenor MSN’s Motion for Summary Judgment, rejecting all of Novartis’s allegations and holding that FDA’s approval of MSN’s product did not violate the Administrative Procedure Act or the FDC Act.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. David: Yeah, yeah, I agree.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

While elevated blood pressure readings are critical data points, the presence of symptoms and signs of end-organ dysfunction are paramount in diagnosing a hypertensive emergency (Kamat 2024). Hypertensive emergencies can result either from primary or secondary hypertension.

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ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

In 2024, 75% of infectious disease physicians who chose an assessment opted for the LKA over the traditional, 10-year MOC exam. SHEA is developing an infectious disease fellows healthcare epidemiology curriculum that will be published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology within the next few months.

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FDA Law

APRIL 8, 2024

To address the underlying causes of shortages, the White Paper suggests that the creation (by Congress) of two programs that link inpatient hospital purchasing and payment decisions to supply chain resilience practices would better incentivize investments in mature manufacturing practices. methylphenidate, dextroamphetamine).

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

In 2024, 78% of hematologists who were due for an assessment and chose to enroll in one chose the LKA over the traditional, 10-year MOC exam, which is on par with the average across specialties. Most (49.5%) are in single-specialty group practice or multi-specialty group practice (38%).

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? He died in 2024.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She aims to become a physician-scientist in pediatrics and medical genetics, engaging in bench-to-bedside research that utilizes multi-omics-based approaches to provide a molecular diagnosis and support personalized care for individuals with suspected rare genetic diseases and their families. References Jeanmonod R, Asuka E, Jeanmonod D.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Ishwaria 05:29 And that’s really how this field of professional well being, healthcare professional well being, clinician well being, has evolved, is that there is an important place in our overall professional well being for personal resilience and our individual coping strategies, recovery methods from day to day. And Covid was just.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Additional link to study with heatmaps of specific locations (hospital, nursing home, home) after initiating dialysis. -@AlexSmithMD ** NOTE: To claim CME credit for this episode, click here ** Transcript Eric 00:11 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. He would go home, and then three weeks later he would be back in the hospital.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So if one of my patients gets admitted, I also see them on the inpatient side of our hospital. I’m embedded in the ICU in one of our smaller hospitals. You still want to go to the hospital if you get sick? I see them both inpatient and outpatient.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Because in medicine as somebody who works in the hospital, there’s always other treatment options. They could have a prognosis of years, or decades.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Alex: Generally in the hospital-based hospice. Matt: I’m more of a hospital guy. And so I think we feel like we’re a community of practice almost, not just individuals trying to rack up the viewers and things. Alex: Not frequently, no.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. They followed them during the course of their hospital stay.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? JAGS 2024 Nursing Home Palliative Care Referral Process, Barriers, and Proposed Solutions: A Qualitative Study. And so they’re in there for a very short time, couple weeks, get a little bit stronger and transition home after a hospitalization.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004. Epub ahead of print. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

cases in 2024-2025, H5N1 disease in humans had a high mortality rate of up to 50%. since 2024, have primarily been very mild with symptoms consisting of conjunctivitis and upper respiratory symptoms with or without fever. There have been a few severe cases and one individual died with H5N1 infection. Prior to the current U.S.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Eric 26:47 How soon after from a hospitalization, all. And if hospitalized, and then the step quality of life is monitored, if their quality of life dropped, they stepped up. Jennifer 27:11 Yes.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Eric 07:03 And those classic studies, were those done in the hospital and PALP care units and clinic?

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And interesting enough, this is a really fascinating study that just got published in JAMA I M in December of 2024. And is it at all individualized to the patient? Danny 12:07 I don’t know how individualized it is. Alex 03:54 Very generous. Eric 03:57 Okay, we got a lot to talk about. It’s a lot. Yeah, yeah.

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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. This sharp increase is causing alarm among public health officials and experts.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. You come over to the clinic, you go to the hospital, you provide service, and the insurance and you negotiate how much you’re going to get paid.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The report found that the number of potential caregivers for an individual 80 or older will decrease significantly by 2050. In 2024, the Alzheimer’s Association issued a report projecting a jump in dementia cases in the U.S. It’s hospitality. from an estimated 6.9 million people by 2060.

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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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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

But it feels the same in that I was on call a lot over the summer, and I took care of a lot of people behind those hospital walls. And we don’t see hospitals being strained as much anymore. You know, of course, serious disease, hospitalization and death. And, you know, some people are still getting very sick.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Or, to phrase the question for 2024, Can AI do better? And really they’re trying to understand what reasonable quality of life can this person expect to achieve and just agonizing over those decisions, over every individual decision. After making decisions, many surrogates experience regret, PTSD, and depressive symptoms.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Available at: [link] Accessed December 3, 2024. Greater than 50 percent of kids under 12 months of age with pertussis could require hospitalization. Infants with apnea, cyanosis, or feeding difficulties should obviously be admitted to the hospital.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 27, 2025

Nursing homes have struggled to replace licensed nurses, who can find better-paying jobs at hospitals and doctors’ offices, as well as nursing assistants, who can earn more working at big-box stores or fast-food joints. Her mother was killed by a stray bullet in her home country of Liberia, Conteh said.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 17, 2025

including in most states that backed President Donald Trump in the 2024 election. It is the policy of NIH not to prioritize research activities that focuses gaining scientific knowledge on why individuals are hesitant to be vaccinated and/or explore ways to improve vaccine interest and commitment,” the notice read.

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