Adventures of a Sick Doctor

JUNE 5, 2021

I've been neglecting this blog. But I thought about my friends and colleagues, my daily contacts and the faceless names on the hospital letters, and I thought about the pain and hurt in each of their hearts. When I was diagnosed with advanced cancer it was easier. Of course I knew all of this to be true. She waited.

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GP Screening Mental Health IT 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. It flows very well. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

Some family doctors work in a residency training program where they may see patients in the hospital, out of the hospital, and deliver babies. I cannot tell you the number of times that I have seen a patient and discovered additional diagnoses after they had been to urgent care. Read My Latest News!

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Primary Care Board-Certified GP Family Medicine 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

To be eligible in Canada patients must have a “ grievous and irremediable ” condition, including disability ; they do not have to have a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. So less than six months to live.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Her name is Emily Groopman, and she’s a current resident at Children’s National Hospital. You won’t be able to diagnose them on history and physical alone. And biochemical testing is really needed in most cases to independently diagnose a specific IEM. will result in symptoms.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. As we’ve written about on GeriPal when we were a blog (a decade ago!) It also feels like, I also grew up in med school in a three hospital system. Eric: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. This is Eric Widera. Is this superior to that? You brought up ICU study.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Greater than 50 percent of kids under 12 months of age with pertussis could require hospitalization. Infants with apnea, cyanosis, or feeding difficulties should obviously be admitted to the hospital. So again, you are treating with antibiotics to prevent more people from getting sick, more so than shortening the duration of illness.

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IT Vaccination Diagnosis Complication 52