2025, Illness and Internal Medicine

Trader Joe’s Recalls Garlic Cheese Curds Due to Listeria Risk

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

MONDAY, June 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A cheese sold at Trader Joe’s has been recalled due to possible listeria contamination. No illnesses have been reported so far. Listeria is a type of bacteria that can cause a serious illness called listeriosis. SOURCE: FDA, June 21, 2025 Copyright © 2025 HealthDay.

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FDA Recalls Chocolate Candies Over Milk Allergy Risk

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

MONDAY, June 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Chocolate candy sold across the U.S. No illnesses have been reported so far, but the company has issued a voluntary recall out of caution. SOURCE: CBS News , June 21, 2025 Copyright © 2025 HealthDay. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said. CBS News reported.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Emily 06:11 Yeah, we definitely have a pill for every ill. But I think there’s a lot on us and I don’t necessarily think that we’re doing anything with ill intent because we want to do right by our patients. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025. Go ahead, Connie. Learned a lot.

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

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. But there are times that a primary care physician or an internal medicine physician may make the referral. There really was very little.

Patient-Centered

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Today we talk with experts Janet Ho, Sach Kale, and Julie Childers about opioid use disorder and serious illness. 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? Oh, my goodness.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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. And then the process of having a guardian and then trying to have that guardian ultimately removed is a difficult one for a patient who’s seriously ill.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare

Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! Do elements of care that are often administered to seriously ill patients count? How does integrative medicine fit in with this? If its low evidence but not unsafe, not generally an issue. Think vitamins.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness

Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Well, todays guests love music at least as much if not more than me, and they each make a strong case for music as medicine. Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

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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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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. It was very simple. Now it was a pragmatic trial.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients

Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

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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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical

Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

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. Alex (singing) Alex 02:34 All right, this was a fun one.

Primary Care

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Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC

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. Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion center? Doing home care? Hospice visits?

Patient-Centered

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AI for surrogate decision making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender

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? . Alex and I don’t make anything on it. Alex 00:28 It’s a hobby.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare

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Trader Joe’s Recalls Garlic Cheese Curds Due to Listeria Risk

FDA Recalls Chocolate Candies Over Milk Allergy Risk

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC

AI for surrogate decision making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender

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