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. Focusing a lot on when to image, when not to image, and how to communicate imaging decisions effectively with families.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Add in the complexities of family life, child-rearing, and pursuing any interest outside of your career, and much of your time is spoken for. How, then, can any physician find the time to research individual companies and make educated decisions on which publicly traded businesses are undervalued? We simply cannot.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Many who follow this blog know that I reside in South Carolina. However, this is a personal finance blog, and for me, it goes beyond that. Helene highlighted that even wealthy communities and well-financed and well-educated populations can be caught off guard and devastated. What are these common recommendations, you ask?

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Have a detailed discussion with the patient and family and do shared decision making in terms of interventions, the GI does, and again, these will be the gold standards. So in the odd, rare scenario where you have a family member being treated for H. So, a kid with mild symptoms, and you want to rule out gallbladder disease?

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Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 11, 2021

They are a product of deep-rooted man-made policies that extend to many sectors (healthcare, education, criminal justice etc). You can draw a line from these discriminatory housing policies, to the wealth gap, to disparities in education, health, and police brutality. The Coronavirus Will Explode Achievement Gaps in Education.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011.

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Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In 1998, a Letter to the Editor in American Family Physician expressed concerns about the relatively new practice of pharmaceutical advertising directly to patients. A quarter of a century later, the United States remains the only country besides New Zealand where DTCA for prescription drugs is completely legal.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

And back then, mostly we took care of each other in the cells and it was like a family thing. AIDs didn’t know any color or creed, so it was a family thing, we all took care of each other. And it’s a family environment, it becomes like a big family here. And this is my family, who I spend my time with.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. And so I really gain that and I love the chorus words that she uses in this song.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Kit Carney and Dr. Kristen Humphrey discuss gun violence, its impact on our patients and their families, as well as practical tips on advocating for safe storage of firearms, and how we can support victims of violence. When we protect our kids from the dangers of gun violence, the whole community stands to benefit. 10.1542/peds.2012-2481

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Family Families Mental Health Healthcare 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 21:31 Blog post, if we’re talking about the same study, was like, fast food palliative care, in and out palliative care, something like that. And the entire community of palliative care said yes, not a palliative care study. Or the article that, the fast food article, to use the parlance from the blog post.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

For example, is reluctance to take on more responsibility at work or relocate because you feel inadequate or is it because of genuine concern about the impact on your family? I think we’re really good at that as palliative care doctors when we’re dealing with families. You need to be different.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 20, 2025

This rings particularly true amongst the rare disease patient community, along with many small biotech companies (and their investors) that take on the risk of developing orphan drugs for exceedingly small patient populations. Patients and their families and caregivers have long fought to have a seat at the table with decision-makers.

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Patients Patient-Centered Community Individual 89

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. Fed up with assembly-line medicine Dr. Wible held town hall meetings and she invited citizens in her community to design their own ideal clinic. Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

You basically don’t even ask the family, you just stop the bleeding. Are you encountering family members who are just, like, at a loss for what to do and tortured it? Patients who are sort of estranged from family members who then have to make these decisions for somebody that they don’t really know. You know, they.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 108

PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

We need to educate parents about vaccine safety and the risks of exemptions. And we need to broadly improve and ensure access to vaccinations through our community clinics. Healthcare providers play a vital role in diagnosing and managing it, preventing its spread, and educating patients and families about the benefits of vaccination.

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