GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS. So as you mentioned, dementia, there’s some research that show about 86% or 93% of those individuals will get that. Raele: I do. I have one.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 1, 2022

It kept me busy, but I really enjoyed the hospital I was rotating at, and the attendings let me do a lot in the operating room. BlackGirlMagic in the Operating Room Last month ( May ), I was back on General Surgery and at my main hospital. My rotation for the month was Trauma/General Surgery. Time flies!

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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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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The PR first sets out to establish that it has authority to regulate in vitro diagnostic “test systems” as devices, and not just the system’s individual components, such as reagents, instruments, specimen collection devices, and software. This comparison is misplaced. If finalized, the PR may also be subject to broader challenges.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Many who follow this blog know that I reside in South Carolina. However, this is a personal finance blog, and for me, it goes beyond that. In the wake of a hurricane as devastating as Helene, tens of thousands of individuals are likely filing claims, surely totaling billions of dollars. What Can We Learn From This?

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here. Clinical treatment facility” is defined as “a medical setting, other than a hospital, that provides detoxification, risk reduction, outpatient treatment and care, residential treatment, or rehabilitation for substance use, pursuant to licensure or certification under State law.”

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 18, 2023

Now don't get me wrong, I am legitimately happy for all these individuals and I love seeing their success, especially when I know how hard the struggle is. I've always stayed positive on this blog, but I never did enjoy my time in my previous program.

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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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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Karst — It’s been a while since we last blogged on Patent Term Extension (“PTE”) issues of interest. Consequently, because both applications were approved at the same time, both applications represent the first permitted commercial marketing or use of the product or the individual active ingredients, as outlined under 35 U.S.C.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here. Clinical treatment facility” is defined as “a medical setting, other than a hospital, that provides detoxification, risk reduction, outpatient treatment and care, residential treatment, or rehabilitation for substance use, pursuant to licensure or certification under State law.”

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

enable individuals to have virtual consultations with healthcare providers through video calls or online platforms), at-home diagnostics (e.g., How can the FDA facilitate individuals accessing medical technologies in remote locations when they are unable or unwilling to access care in clinical settings?

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

Psychiatrists define burnout as a job-related dysphoria in an individual without major psychopathy—meaning you’re normal; your job is killing you. Individuals with moral injury may see themselves and the world as immoral and irreparable. So why are physicians experiencing physical and mental collapse from overwork?

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

You can find our preliminary blog post on the release of this guidance here , and our blog posts on the draft CDS guidances here and here. Specifically, the guidance interprets the Cures Act’s four criteria for exclusion of CDS software functions from FDA’s medical device jurisdiction (so-called “Non-Device CDS”).

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

He also identified “Next-Generation Home-based Testing Technologies, including new IVDs, Digital Lateral Flow Readers, and Reporting Technologies” as an opportunity to “extend care from the hospital and clinic into the home setting.” This approach to regulation of collection devices is overly burdensome and it discourages innovation.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Even cooler, the photographer took individual headshots of us that will be able to use for branding or however we like. It was such a beautiful gift. What I took away from this retreat is that now is the time to create the life I want to live, and to find a way to make it work, despite any obstacles I may perceive to be in my way.

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ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. SHEA is developing an infectious disease fellows healthcare epidemiology curriculum that will be published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology within the next few months. Learn More Subscribe to the ABIM Blog to stay on top of the latest news.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

We blogged on the final 2016 guideline here on March 17, 2016). CDC emphasizes that while some of the initiatives had positive results for some patients, guideline “recommendations are voluntary and intended to be flexible in support, not supplant, individualized, patient-centered care.” Methodology. at 95-96. “[B]efore

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. Preliminary data show that 90% of respondents are clinically active with the majority in hospital- or system-owned practice (38%), academic faculty practice (32.9%) and private practice (26.8%). Learn More Subscribe to the ABIM Blog to stay on top of the latest news.

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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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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

He studies the mental health system in the ways in which it has failed children and adolescents, and he writes about his experience with cancer in a blog, the Billgardner.substack.com, Billgardner, one word. ” Somebody in the comments on their blog response said, “Did you check the date? Bill: Thank you. Brad: Thank you.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

She urges us to recognize that maternal mortality changes the life trajectories of individuals and communities. Dr. Kozhimannil discusses her work on rural maternity care and the lack of hospital-based obstetric services. Health Affairs Blog. hospitals could improve access to high-quality maternity care. link] Katy B.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2024

To that end, FDA approved the MSN ANDA without the modified dosing regimen and with the indication “to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death and hospitalization for heart failure in adult patients with chronic heart failure and reduced ejection fraction.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

We blogged on the 2016 guideline here in March 2016, and the proposed guideline here on March 18th). The recommendations do not apply to inpatient hospital care, in the emergency department or other observed settings. 50 MME/day, clinicians should pause and carefully reassess evidence of individual benefits and risks.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. It started here at Madison at one and it’s also spread outside the VA now to hospitals in Boston, Providence and now starting up actually in California and UCLA and UCSF.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She aims to become a physician-scientist in pediatrics and medical genetics, engaging in bench-to-bedside research that utilizes multi-omics-based approaches to provide a molecular diagnosis and support personalized care for individuals with suspected rare genetic diseases and their families. References Jeanmonod R, Asuka E, Jeanmonod D.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

To address the underlying causes of shortages, the White Paper suggests that the creation (by Congress) of two programs that link inpatient hospital purchasing and payment decisions to supply chain resilience practices would better incentivize investments in mature manufacturing practices. methylphenidate, dextroamphetamine).

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In October 2022, FDA released the draft guidance entitled “Select Updates for the Breakthrough Devices Program Guidance: Reducing Disparities in Health and Healthcare,” as previously discussed in our blog. FDA will consider if technologies and device features “address unmet needs in these populations” when evaluating criterion one.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

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. I’m going to try to remember as much as I can, so when I wake up, can I write a … My thought was I’m going to write a cool blog post about this.

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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

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. There’s the variation between the hospitals, feels like there’s cultural issues that play a role. Eric: Yeah. Amber: The studies between Black and white patients?

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. Janet: And Katie has a great CAPC blog too that kind of summarizes a lot of additional evidence and references online if you have access to that too. Eric: And why Under Pressure.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

* This episode of the GeriPal Podcast is sponsored by the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Division of Hospital Medicine , which is committed to providing outstanding, compassionate care to all patients, advancing health equity, and fostering excellence in hospital medicine. For more details, please click here. (AP

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So I didn’t mention this at the beginning, but after my time as President of Canadian Psychiatric Association, I actually also went on to be the physician chair of my former hospital’s MAID team. Because in medicine as somebody who works in the hospital, there’s always other treatment options.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations. 2 , 4 I believe this is crucial and that all politicians should know about it.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I like to tell my trainees… Often with the earliest stage trainees, they’ll go in the room and they’ll ask the patient what brought them to the hospital. They’re in the hospital for the past 60 days, and they haven’t had been able to talk to anybody about their favorite hobby. Not a lot of blogs out there.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

I am there with individuals who are dying. Jeff: G1 is a hospital wing. Alex: And just of note, you can see our pictures if you go to our blog post and YouTube website, you can see this is a magnificent, beautiful garden space. And you have the individual here who needs the end of life care, who needs this service as well.

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