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. Had the ED not ordered a chest CT, would I have tested this patient for COVID-19?

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Illness Diagnosis Emergency Room Diagnose 52

Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 31, 2021

It's New Year's Eve, I'm currently in the Emergency Room working my final night shift for the month, and you know what? 2021 was a true reflection of what staying prayed up, being patient, keeping the faith, and trusting in God's plan will bring. Spending NYE 2021 living my dreams! I am overjoyed beyond words!

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Emergency Room Families Family IT 52

Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

Therefore, family physicians are trained to do minor surgical procedures in the office, care for kids and adults, provide various GYN services, among many other comprehensive services for patients. I love family medicine because as family physicians, we can be trained to provide care for patients in many different settings.

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Primary Care Board-Certified GP Family Medicine 52

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Liz wrote a fabulous perspectives piece in the NEJM titled “ Deciding on My Dimples ” which talks about her experience as a patient doing shared decision making during neurosurgery for resection of an astrocytoma. But my piece in the New England Journal is about being a patient right before awake brain surgery. I could learn this.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 96

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.

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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. Basis at 24; NPRM at 44,617.

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Physicals Medical Clinic Emergency Room 69

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Surrogates often either dont know what patients would want, or think they know but are wrong, or make choices that align with their own preferences rather than the patients. The first one is that a lot of patients, particularly the end of life, probably the majority of them, can’t make their own decisions.

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