Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

WEDNESDAY, June 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Getting approval from your insurance company before a procedure or treatment may soon get a little easier. Insurers must provide clearer explanations when care is denied and explain how patients can appeal. SOURCE: NBC News , June 23, 2025 Copyright © 2025 HealthDay.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

WEDNESDAY, June 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — More than 1.7 The air conditioners were sold between March 2020 and May 2025 at major retailers like Best Buy, Costco and Home Depot. SOURCE: CBS News , June 6, 2025 Copyright © 2025 HealthDay. They cost between $280 and $500. All rights reserved. The post Midea Recalls 1.7

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The small, colorful bottles hawked at convenience stores, smoke shops and filling stations as cognitive supplements or energy are often called “gas station heroin.” It claimed to provide “an unparalleled solution to cravings for opiates.” ” And, the U.S.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

Focus on providing optimum patient care and financial success will follow Rules are made for a reason and should be followed. Focus on providing optimum patient care, and the financial success will follow. Breaking them can lead to problems, fines, and even incarceration. Focus on making the product great, and the profits will follow.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

I’m an internist, so when I hospitalize patients, 1 in 8 of my patients now takes pregabalin or gabapentin. You’re in the hospital right now, we can write you a taper, just mention to your doctor, mention to the team that you got this brochure and here’s even a suggestion for how to do it. 1 in 8 in the U.S.

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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 4, 2025

Christine Twining, MD, Chair, ABIM Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board The Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on April 1, 2025. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N.

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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. No patients are dismissed, and referral networks remain intact. Dr. Condrell launched his program because of the high demand for his attention and support.

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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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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology. There were a number of opportunities to be involved in medical oncology and doing medical oncology rotations as a medical student, as an internal medicine residential. Evie, welcome to GeriPal.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

from The Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, and colleagues recruited clinicians who provided abortion the year before Dobbs and/or at the time of the survey to examine the proportion of abortion-providing clinicians who changed their primary state of practice. Dana Howard, Ph.D., All rights reserved.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

But you worry that the advance directive does not provide enough guidance for the specific decision at Yael Jo, do you. So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. It doesn’t provide enough guidance for the clinicians to make decisions.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

When we started doing more music stuff for our patients in the hospital, a lot of people started to think, hmm, what would I want to listen to? So our inpatient hospitals are kind of under resourced for music therapy. It’s something that has no place in a hospital in most people’s thinking. Tyler 01:43 Okay.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Inspired by Dani Chammass paper in Annals of Internal Medicine titled, Wishing for a no show we talk about countertransference: start by asking yourself, Why am I having difficulty? But, you know, I’ve talked to a lot of palliative care providers, a lot of people caring for people with serious illness. We have this.

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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? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Marie 03:08 So, living in Alabama, which is our palliative care desert in the south, there were no palliative care services in any of the small rural hospitals. We went to a hospital in Mississippi, one in Alabama, and one in South Carolina. By then they usually were out of the hospital actually. Eric 10:25 And who was included?

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

I think they may not be likely to provide much benefit, but because they’re water soluble and you just pee it out, they’re probably not causing much harm, except for potentially financial harm if they’re very costly. It’s just that he was foregoing things that we think would have provided him more benefit.

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

So what I remember is, is multiple hospitals and they did EEG during CPR during a cardiac arrest. Any depictions of paradoxical acidity that you’ve seen in media or movies that strike you as accurate, or any links we could provide to YouTube videos or anything like that. Okay, I’ll ask a different question.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. Some numbers to back it up: ELNEC has trained more than 48,000 providers in a train the trainer model Over 1.5 Mary Dwyer, who is a lawyer, and bioethicist and assistant professor at Case Western Reserve and University Hospitals.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. This is what I do here. Wait, how is that actually defined?

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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.” Eric: Okay.

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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? Using data from wearable devices, internet searches, and purchasing history?

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