PEMBlog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Differentiating these pathogens based on clinical presentation is crucial for targeted management, minimizing unnecessary diagnostic tests, and optimizing healthcare resources. Secondary bacterial pneumonia: Characterized by clinical deterioration after an initial period of improvement.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Well cover its clinical presentation, epidemiology, diagnostic approach, and management, including why standard beta-lactam antibiotics wont work. Learning Objectives Describe the clinical presentation, epidemiology, and complications of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in pediatric patients, including its atypical manifestations.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. And there’s so much work on, you know, you’ve got to take these medicines, you got to prevent this treat, that there isn’t that same sort of clinical momentum towards deprescribing. Go ahead, Connie.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

THURSDAY, June 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Illinois has confirmed its first human case of West Nile virus this year, health officials say. So far in 2025, mosquitoes carrying the virus have been found in 19 counties across Illinois. The first batch of virus-positive mosquitoes this year was discovered in Rockford, Ill.,

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

TUESDAY, June 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Dozens of people in northeastern England have developed a rare and dangerous illness after receiving Botox injections, according to health officials in the U.K. More information The Mayo Clinic has more on botulism. SOURCE: CNN , June 20 2025 Copyright © 2025 HealthDay.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

Consecutive, critically ill adults with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 3, who were at high risk of DNC, were included. The primary analysis included 282 patients; 72 percent were ultimately declared deceased by standardized clinical criteria. Michaël Chassé, M.D., All rights reserved.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Today we talk with experts Janet Ho, Sach Kale, and Julie Childers about opioid use disorder and serious illness. Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. What do they do?

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My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

This means: Direct influence: Training healthcare professionals to understand and manage the growing connections between environment and illness. Investing in climate-smart healthcare infrastructure—clinics that can withstand extreme heat, storms, and flooding. Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on European Healthcare (2025).

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I’m sort of seeing them in clinic for consideration of palliative radiation, they have a lot going on. Now patients are living so much longer that they’re coming back to my clinic after I’ve treated them with radiation. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025.

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The Physicians Foundation

MAY 20, 2025

The Physicians Foundation announces the 2025 recipient of the Drivers of Health (DOH) Fellowship Program, urges physicians to screen patients for DOH BOSTON, May 21, 2025 – Today, The Physicians Foundation reinforces its efforts to help physicians address drivers of health (DOH) to improve a person’s overall health.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. Alex 16:45 That really rings true with my clinical experience. And I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! Ivermectin to treat cancer. Stem cell treatments. Chelation therapy.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Eric 01:04 So we’re going to be talking about transgender health in older adults and those with serious illness. But you know, the clinical piece, I think it starts out with collecting sexual orientation, gender identity in your databases. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. Also a shout out.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. Amber tells the moving story of how these findings led a clinical colleague, her chief, to question and change his behavior. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Amber.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. They wanted you to be respectful of their cultural beliefs and their, you know, faith beliefs that were driving their health and illness. Marie 11:03 Yes.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. Eric 34:49 And Jenny, how are you planning to involve music once you’re done with fellowship in your clinical work? ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. That was beautiful. Oh, my gosh.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

We discussed what makes an illness terminal, what goes into assessing capacity for an action as simple as requesting something to drink, and whether the TV show Severance illuminates any of these answers. But before we talk about this subject, about nutrition, hydration at the end of life, people with advanced illness, or maybe not so much.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

MONDAY, June 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new COVID-19 variant that led to a spike in hospital cases across parts of Asia may now account for more than one-third of all COVID cases in the U.S., SOURCE: CBS News , June 13, 2025 Copyright © 2025 HealthDay. health officials say. The variant, known as NB.1.8.1,

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Sometimes people call them health shocks, but we kind of all, like, clinically, intuitively know what these things are. Has really changed.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In 1996, a variant of H5N1 was documented overseas that resulted in a severe illness in birds and was designated as highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). cases in 2024-2025, H5N1 disease in humans had a high mortality rate of up to 50%. To date, more than 160 million poultry are known to have been affected.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. Alex 02:44 Still suffering from some illness from there, which is why I was sick and not in the office with Eric today. We did it by the clinic level. I’ve had fun relearning Spanish.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. I was a clinical ethics fellow at Baylor College of Medicine. Doing home care? Hospice visits?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? . Does this issue ring true to you clinically? Alex 00:28 It’s a hobby.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

A podcast producer and director emeritus of WOUB Public Media zeroed in on our article about restless doctors, sharing his thoughts on X: This must be Trump and Kennedy’s idiotic plan to make American Healthy Again… [link] — Tom Hodson (@thodson) May 29, 2025 — Tom Hodson, Athens, Ohio Oh, Canada Welcomes American Doctors! Kennedy Jr.’s

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 17, 2025

Many mirror the ambitions laid out in Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership,” the conservative playbook for Trump’s second term. Others followed the Senate confirmation of anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the NIH. NIH grants routinely span several years.

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