The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 14, 2020

We walked down to the emergency room and reviewed his chart. Then things started to get a little bit different… His chest x-ray had some peripheral infiltrates, and the emergency department providers ordered a CT scan. It started off like any other cardiology admission that we’d had during that month.

Illness 52

Illness Diagnosis Emergency Room Diagnose 52

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

I started blogging as a patient, just talking about my own story online like patients did back in the day. Then in the OpenNotes work that I do, I was hired to take something complicated like transparency and patients having access to their full records in medicine, and then making that something that the lay public understood.

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 96

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 96

FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

Scientific Evidence of Marijuana’s Pharmacological Effects, If Known HHS found that marijuana abuse can lead to negative consequences that include addiction and the need for medical attention through poison center calls or emergency room visits. Basis at 18; NPRM at 44,605. NPRM at 44,607. Basis at 45; NPRM at 44,613.

Physicals 69

Physicals Medical Clinic Emergency Room 69