Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions. It can differentiate between a physician’s questions and a patient’s responses and even filter out non-relevant small talk.

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S. Key findings include: 1.

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The Physicians Foundation

JANUARY 28, 2025

New and early-career physicians passionate about drivers of health encouraged to apply BOSTON, January 28, 2025–Today, The Physicians Foundation announced the opening of applications for its esteemed Fellowship Program. The Fellowship Program aims to equip physicians with the tools and knowledge necessary to address these critical factors.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 22, 2025

May 22, 2025 — The Permanente Federation has appointed Letitia Bridges, MD, MBA , to the National Permanente Leadership Team as executive vice president and chief quality officer and co-chair of the Kaiser Permanente National Quality Committee. We are dedicated to the mission of improving the health of our patients and communities.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 13, 2025

By Sarah Wicks & Dara Katcher Levy FDAs Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) issued its second Untitled Letter of 2025 to Taiho Oncology (Taiho) for a healthcare provider branded website for its drug LYTGOBI (futibatinib). Mirati) about a healthcare professional branded website for KRAZATI (adagrasib).

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

Topics Access and Reimbursement Billing & Collections Coding & Documentation Finance Law & Malpractice MedMal by Coverys Patient Engagement & Communications Staffing & Salary Technology Media Video & Interviews Podcasts Medical World News Pearls Surveys Best States to Practice Great American Physician Survey Staff Salary Survey (..)

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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. Pediatrics. 2024;154(1):e2024066854.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes. Patients received brochures detailing the risks of gabapentinoids, nonpharmacologic alternatives, and a proposed deprescribing regimen (see here for the brochure ). in the usual care group.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary If you’re anything like me, you might find the process of what happens to patients when they visit a radiation oncologist somewhat mysterious. Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology. Emily, welcome to GeriPal.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

APRIL 23, 2025

The Concierge Choice by CCP is a unique concierge medicine style that allows physicians to offer patients an exclusive membership program while maintaining their entire patient panel. Membership is simply an option for those patients who want the assurance they will always see their chosen physician for appointments.

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ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

Erin Bonura, MD, Chair, ABIM Infectious Disease Board The Infectious Disease Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of ABIM policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on March 25, 2025. JD , whose terms on the Specialty Board end June 30, 2025.

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Gertz, MD, MACP, Chair, ABIM Hematology Board The Hematology Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of ABIM policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on May 2, 2025. A representative from the American Society of Hematology (ASH) joined for a portion of the meeting*.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

As the 2025 legislative session swings into full gear, the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has set its sights on a cadre of pivotal bills set to shape the healthcare landscape for years to come. Senate SB 43 – Patient Price Transparency Bill What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Sen.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So I think the first reason that we saw and felt the opportunity was ripe for updating was that some of us had come across some anecdotal examples of patients expressing some offense to that terminology. And I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive. Can you guys do that one? Eric 02:39 Absolutely.

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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. Jenny reached out to us because she plays music regularly for her patients, and she said, you should do a podcast about music. Look for Jenny to potentially appear on the show Americas Got Talent (no lie). Theresa 00:32 Thank you.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Eric and I remember him from that time and he’s now at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he is associate professor in the department of social and behavioral health. Jace, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Jace 00:37 Thank you so much, Alex and Eric, it’s nice to be here with you. Eric 01:21 Why’d you choose this song?

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 25, 2025

By building an integrated, patient-centered colorectal cancer screening program, we doubled screening rates, cut deaths by 50%, and made major strides in closing racial disparities in outcomes. The approach was simple: consistently alert patients that it’s time to get screened and make getting screened as easy as possible.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I’ve seen this question come up a lot since finishing fellowship nearly two decades ago. Historically, answers generally lamented the ever increasing need for geriatrics without a corresponding growth in the number of specialists in the field. Mike, welcome to GeriPal. Mike: Great to be here. Alex: We’ll take any Warriors we can get.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We address: Why is caring for patients with this overlap so hard? Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Who follows the patient once the cancer goes into remission? What is making this hard for me? What is harm reduction and how can we implement it in practice?

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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

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. In one room the physician under study interacts with a white patient-actor, and in another room interacts with a Black patient-actor. Amber: I do. You know what?

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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! Think chemotherapy to imminently dying patients, or CPR.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 14, 2023

Also, it is unclear which office within CDRH appoints the TAP Advisor, e.g., center-level, OPEQ-level, or division-level. Also, it is unclear which office within CDRH appoints the TAP Advisor, e.g., center-level, OPEQ-level, or division-level. It remains to be seen how FDA would define and actually implement the role of a TAP Advisor.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

How to be sensitive to the risks of stereotyping based on recommendations from the few members of the board to the many heterogeneous patients served? I’m Marie Bakitas, and I’m a professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and also the associate Director of the center for Palliative and Supportive Care.

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Particularly patients, families. Summary Transcript CME Summary Have any of you watched the movie The Notebook ? At the end, one of the characters, who has dementia, experiences an episode of lucidity. When I watched it, between tears (Im a complete softie) I remember thinking, Oh no! This will give people false hope! Thanks for having me.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Recently, discussion has emerged about how these issues intertwine in caring for patients with advancing dementia who have stated that they would not want to continue living in that condition: for those with an advanced directive to stop eating and drinking, how do we balance caring for their rational past self and their experiential current self?

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

-Alex Smith Additional links mentioned by Tsai-Chin Cho: – Wealth shocks and mortality in the US – Change in marital status as a risk for wealth shock ** NOTE: To claim CME credit for this episode, click here ** Transcript Eric 00:11 W elcome to the GeriPal p odcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:12 This is Alex Smith. Is it you, Rebecca?

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion center? ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. Doing home care? Hospice visits?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

THURSDAY, June 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A longtime vaccine critic hired by Health Secretary Robert F. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) database that includes vaccine safety information from millions of patients, according to multiple sources. The VSD includes data from a dozen large healthcare networks.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Only 5% of intervention patients received the facilitator-led component of the intervention (there were other components, facilitator-led was the most engaged component). Was there really a causal connection between the intervention, new advance directives, and higher rates of potentially burdensome interventions? Jasmine, is it you?

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doctors for America PO Box: 21161 2300 18th St NW Lbby Washington, DC 20009-9996 May 30, 2025 Coalition Acts to Protect Pregnant Patients’ Federal Right to Emergency Care, Including Abortion By Intervening in a Federal Challenge to EMTALA, Doctors for America Seeks to Protect Health and Lifesaving Care WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

This bill proposes to improve the healthcare decision-making and treatment process for prescriptions and testing by reducing the pre-approval (prior authorization) burdens placed on healthcare providers by health insurance carriers. Here in Maine the "shorter" Legislative Session was quite full!

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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.” Malaz: I love it.

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Physicians News Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

By Brad Broker The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a concerning report on the current flu season, describing it as the worst in years. 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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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 25, 2025

Match Day on March 21, 2025 unfolded similarly to the National Resident Matching Program in previous years. The sub-headline from a Medscape news article said it all: "Anesthesiology Still Hot, Family Medicine Is Not." Most years, two or three times as many students matched into Anesthesiology or Orthopedic Surgery.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Surrogates often either dont know what patients would want, or think they know but are wrong, or make choices that align with their own preferences rather than the patients. You can donate tax deductible donations to GeriPal so we can continue to produce t hese podcasts in 2025. Can we do better? Alex 00:28 It’s a hobby.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

And the reason why I’m choosing is because it’s respiratory virus season and we don’t want our patients to catch their breath. Alex 00:07 We are delighted to welcome back Lona Mody, who is a geriatrician, translational infectious disease researcher, and professor at the University of Michigan and the Ann Arbor Va.

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