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Reasoning during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Clinical Problem Solvers

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.

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

Part 2 Here are some frequently asked questions I get as a Primary Care Provider. 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. What is primary care?

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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

GeriPal

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. I started blogging as a patient, just talking about my own story online like patients did back in the day. I was like maybe I’ll write a blog post about this later. The first guest is Liz Salmi.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

Back then we were a blog and Ken’s post, which is titled, Survival from Severe Sepsis: The infection is cured, but all is not well, is still one of our most viewed posts on Jerry Powell. We try to make that point because it speaks to especially ICU providers, we know how bad that is. Ken Covinsky wrote about it for GeriPal.

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Buckle Up: DOJ Initiates Rulemaking to Reschedule Marijuana

FDA Law Blog

The Attorney General also released DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) opinions providing the rationale and support for the NPRM. Schedules of Controlled Substances: Rescheduling of Marijuana, 89 Fed. 44,597 (May 21, 2024). Basis at 18; NPRM at 44,605. Basis at 61; NPRM at 44,615. *

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AI for surrogate decision making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender

GeriPal

Algorithms using millions of direct observations of a persons behavior to provide an authentic portrait of the way a person lived? I mean, and to this, this is to Alex’s point, of all of our blog posts, all of our purchasing behavior, you know what we’ve liked, part of that is really constructed by social media as well.