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.

Lab Testing 52

Lab Testing Medical Patients Mental Health 52

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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Medical Student Diagnosis Physicals Medical 246

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.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Board-Certified GP Family Medicine 52

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