PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not. Glucose We all need it.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. As I’ve been blogging about this for a couple months now, I’m really trying to find anyone who loves these things. Well, yeah, Dr. McPherson, aside.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

Last week the anti-burnout buzz accelerated when ZDogg quoted my 2015 blog— Burnout is BS —in his viral video “It’s not burnout, it’s moral injury” echoing my advice that we stop saying the victim-blaming term. In medicine, combating illness requires primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Now we’re getting somewhere.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

On today’s podcast we talk with three experts on buprenorphine on why, when, and how to use it in serious illness. Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . Katie, before we jump into the topic of buprenorphine in serious illness, what’s the song request?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary How do people react when they hear they have a serious illness? And some people, in addition or instead, engage in deep introspection on how to make meaning or live with or understand this experience of serious illness. Shock, “like a car is rushing straight at me” (says Bill Gardner on our podcast).

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Eric: And Alex, we’re going to be talking about substance use disorder and serious illness and aging, with three amazing experts. Eric: So, before we jump into the topic of substance use disorder in aging and serious illness, I think someone has a song request. Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera.

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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.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Still, we havent talked about integrating palliative care into psychiatry or in the care of those with severe mental illness. What does it look like to take a palliative approach to severe mental illness? Is “terminal” mental illness a thing? For more details, please click here. (AP AP Recruit Job No.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 28, 2025

70 people (14%) have been hospitalized for serious illnesses, and one child and one adult have died. Increasing vaccine hesitancy has depressed measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination rates in the affected jurisdictions, making more people vulnerable to the highly contagious illness. since last week.

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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. There was a Milligan-esque relief in these counselling sessions – “I told you I was ill”. The kind lady didn’t mind.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Gaulkin — At the risk of ruining our readers’ appetite for America’s most food-focused holiday, foodborne illnesses have been a feature of Thanksgiving for some time now. When foodborne illness outbreaks arise, efficient traceability is critical to prevent illnesses, death, and unnecessary product loss. 20, 2026.

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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. A primary care doctor knows your entire health history, so we may see your illness/problem in a different light. Other family doctors only see patients in their clinics.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So during the dissertation, that was a method for my PhD research and that’s related to… I was learning about African American elders experiences of psych-social-spiritual healing and serious illness. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Alex: Yeah.

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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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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?

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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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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Her name is Emily Groopman, and she’s a current resident at Children’s National Hospital. But again, metabolic GI illness, interrupt other interruptions in feeding schedule, intense exercise. I will take a comment on Facebook or the blog. will result in symptoms. I will take an email.

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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. Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness. This is Eric Widera. Is this superior to that? You’re right.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. Mary Dwyer, who is a lawyer, and bioethicist and assistant professor at Case Western Reserve and University Hospitals. Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion center?

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

Mary Dwyer, who is a lawyer, and bioethicist and assistant professor at Case Western Reserve and University Hospitals. He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. Jenny: Good to be here. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome O. Eric: Great.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? Alex 08:36 Right. Eric 08:37 That’s what we really want to know. Dave 34:28 Yeah.

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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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