Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 19, 2025

This article explores common signs and symptoms, risk factors associated with blood pressure abnormalities, and when medical attention may be warranted. Recognizing subtle symptoms of high blood pressure or hypertension early is paramount for mitigating associated health risks before complications develop.

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Hypertension Family Medicine DO Management 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Sonali Advani and Lona Mody talk about their recent JAGS article highlighting three recent articles that every clinician caring for older adults should be aware of in the treatment of infectious diseases (hint: I’ve never finished a course of antibiotics, and maybe your patients don’t need that full course either).

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 96

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Other complications include obstruction due to intussusception or volvulus, leading to bowel ischemia and shock. The Meckel’s scan is the preferred diagnostic modality, and prompt surgical consultation may be necessary for symptomatic cases. The bleeding is usually painless. References Dixon P & Nolan D. Clin Radiol.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Eric: And swallowing is complicated, right? So, the consult will come in and then we’ll do what we call a clinical bedside evaluation, where we’ll go and see the patient at the bedside. Eric: Because you need saliva to swallow, right? Nicole: Yes. Raele: Very helpful if you do, yeah. Nicole: Exactly. Raele: Yes.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

If you want to do a deeper dive in ACE units, check out some of the following articles: The original NEJM paper on ACE units from 1996. After coming out of residency and taking care of lots of complicated older adults as of now, a brand new physician attending, I really needed that team to help me out. And that model just made sense.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And I can only imagine that’s even more complicated in the cancer patient population, where we’re asking them to do so many other things as well. This is great.

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 73

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This all came out from JAGS just published their first Clin-STAR corner, which is, and we’ll talk about what that is, but it’s a series of articles bringing in specialists to talk about updates in the last couple years within their field. Mody for the mentorship and for the opportunity to bring together these articles.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. It used to be a much more complicated model. As a nurse, how challenging would it be to do eight hours of training and jump into this complicated world? So, the docs actually wrote orders for tests, medications, consults. David: Right.

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Patient-Centered Illness IT Patients 121

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications? Eric: We’re going to be talking about surgical communications, really based off a series of four wonderful articles in JAMA Surgery, titled Innovations In Surgical Communication.

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IT Family Families Patient-Centered 127

PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

What you can expect to learn from this article: Recognize signs of end-organ injury when BP is 95th percentile + 30 mmHg. Before your blood pressure rises as well, know that this PEMBlog article is here to provide an overview of the recognition and management of hypertensive emergencies.

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Hypertension Management Physicals Lab Testing 75

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Having read at least some of your research articles there’s a lot of focus around this intersection between what happens to people after the hospital stay post-acute, especially in the cancer patients. Tamra: I wrote this… Eric: Thinking that the perceived role for inpatient physical therapist is a discharge consultant.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 131

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. They were more likely to have a major inpatient surgical complication. She falls and breaks her hip.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. I actually do some consulting work with a company called the Farmstand that’s based in a community called the Villages in Florida. Eric 39:13 No, there was actually in Colorado, I think there was that Atlantic article or New Yorker. What’s changed?

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 97

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

For example, there was one article that we reviewed for Jags where it asked great questions, they gave great prompts, and ChatGPT answered great questions about antipsychotics and gave a list of references to back up ChatGPT’s assertions. Because I don’t know how you train that sort of a AI ethicist clinical ethics consultant.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Today we talk with Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint, and Anne Kelly, authors of a JGIM article on the reasons we shouldn’t stop at “no.” And then we were involved, palliative care was consulted when the patient was really sick and decompensating in the ICU. Should you stop at “no?” That can all start with you.”

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 97

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We’re gonna be talking about three different articles that are gonna be presented Saturday, I believe, at the annual meeting. Three different articles. You did a rural tele-palliative care consultation study. And so the video consult was what became the mode. NCP guideline, standard consultation. Have to see.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Family 62

GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

So we’re going to have a link to the article that you published in JAMA IM titled The Hospital Culture and Intensity of End-of-Life Care at Three Academic Hospitals. So before we talk about the results, can you give us a very brief overview of what you did in this article? Eric: Yeah, and for our listeners, excellent job, Kai.

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Hospital IT Patient-Centered Patients 124

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

Patients that remind us of loved ones, patients that are often younger, really hard stories, complicated issues. The whole idea of holding hope seems also so much more complicated for younger people because the hopes that they had, the normal hopes are not likely to be realized. Eric: Yeah. What are the patients that we remember?

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Family Families IT Illness 83

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. But yeah, it’s complicated. So that’s great. And it was like 29eds. Yeah, yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 76

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Here are some more resources we’ve discussed in the podcast Dani’s NEJM article on coping: “ Should I Laugh at That? And the person who was coming to me for consultation said, well, how do I get them to open up the box? This is so complicated. To get even more complicated. This is complicated. You had me.

Illness 124

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 124

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Here are a couple of articles if you want to do a deeper dive: Dani and colleagues article on Psychiatry and Palliative Care: Growing the Interface Through Education. Dani and colleagues article on Palliative Care Psychiatry: Building Synergy Across the Spectrum. Eric 12:11 And we consult psychiatry. And you can talk.

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And for this podcast in particular, both Bill and Louise wrote articles that we’re going to be discussing particular patient cases. So while you don’t have to, we’re gonna summarize these articles. If you have a chance to read those articles before you listen to this podcast, I highly recommend that you do.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Because it’s complicated and we don’t want to over complicate prayer listeners. What is sludge? I highly encourage you.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 115

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). Eric: When I try to think about what a doula does, should I call it a consult?

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. And I’ll share that my own relationship with my father, who was a doctor, was a complicated one. Raj is an anesthesiologist turned palliative care doctor. What do you think about that?

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Community IT Relationship Healthcare 114

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). So figured out a little harmonica- Eric: That was wonderful.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary We are dusting off our crystal balls today with three amazing guests who have all recently published an article on prognosis over the last couple months: Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley. Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. This is Eric W id era.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 105

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It’s not a new debate but has gathered steam at least in palliative care circles since Sean Morrisons published a JPM article titled “ Advance Directives/Care Planning: Clear, Simple, and Wrong.” And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? We see how hard it is.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Family 98

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

What I often hear, grief, that normal, often, and we just had Holly Prigerson on the podcast talk about complicated grief, but grief in itself, that reaction, that is often triggered by loss. For the book, it was not just, “Write an article, we’ll publish it.” Eric: And how does that differ from grief?

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Healthcare Professional Healthcare IT Relationship 102

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I think, Winston, in your article, you even said for probably brief periods of time, they’re still conscious. And just not to put too fine a point to it, articles in New England Journal this week about people in persistent vegetative state who were able to accomplish some sort of tasks. Sean 17:40 Yeah.

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IT Family Families Patient-Centered 112

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

After KFF Health News and NBC News reached out to West Virginia’s Public Employees Insurance Agency with questions for this article, the agency changed its mind, explaining the insurer had consulted with medical experts to further evaluate the case. .” None of their appeals worked.

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