PEMBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

2025 Feb 17. Laboratory diagnosis and treatment of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in children: a review. There’s also been an increase in diagnosis in those under 12 months of age. Alright, so making the diagnosis starts with having a firm understanding of bacterial versus viral etiologies of pneumonia.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 21, 2025

This article delineates the salient clinical features, associated complications, cost considerations, and risk profiles for each virus, thereby providing a framework for informed clinical decision-making. Common Complications : Otitis media : Diagnosis is supported by the presence of a bulging tympanic membrane with purulent effusion.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 19, 2025

Attorneys Office, Northern District of Illinois, April 21, 2025. Opioid prescriptions for high dosages and quantities, including prescriptions that individually or in combination, provide patients with daily dosages of greater than or equal to 300 Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MMEs). 81, 89, 251.

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PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

In this episode, which we recorded as a discussion on May 12th, 2025, we will explore the latest evidence and guidelines, discuss practical strategies for reducing low-value imaging, and highlight how shared decision-making can help ensure that every scan is the right scan. And so we routinely do outreach with our community providers.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. This requires emergency treatment.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Knowing that the community is really underrepresented in sort of our knowledge, what we do, how we provide care that’s truly inclusive and welcoming. And this is for all of us, that when we’re going into this space of providing inclusive and affirming care, it really starts out with humility, because there’s a lot to learn.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. And this has been really interesting because people are like, they just got their diagnosis.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But, you know, I’ve talked to a lot of palliative care providers, a lot of people caring for people with serious illness. Like if a person has an issue, struggle with alcohol, I’m not their alcohol provider, but I may be their opioid provider. First one responds gets the first response.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 73

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And I think the crisis that we’re in right now in healthcare delivery, the idea of laying down my badge, I think that’s maybe a metaphor for being a sheriff, but what about being a healthcare provider? So we did a perfect cross so that the race and actual primary diagnosis was perfectly matched across groups.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And is there a middle path to provide some degree of comfort while also hastening the end of life? I mean, you know, we’re trying to both honor what, what the surrogate believes is the, the patient’s preference, which we do all the time with all kinds of other medical interventions and provide comfort in a humane way.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And so spouses are typically the ones for patients who provide most of the caregiving support. And that’s in addition to the financial, emotional companionship, and psychosocial support that spouses typically provide. Like if you had a magic wand, you had healthcare providers, like, one thing they. Eric 41:25 Great.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 73

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so a lot of it was the facilitators calling out with the approval of the provider to the patients ahead of time to see, like, you have a visit coming up. You didn’t ask about it, but for us, it was very important to examine differences for older adults with a diagnosis of dementia. This is what I do here.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

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.” Eric: Okay.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Dangerous changes loomed: To compensate for tax cuts for the wealthy, Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill and budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 threaten to curtail Medicaid, which provides health coverage for people with low incomes and disabilities. About 40% of adults with HIV rely on it for their lifesaving treatments.

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Government Community Families Family 52

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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