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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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The film talks about some of the escape fires of healthcare, including non-opioid pain treatments, nutrition programs, strong doctor-patient relationships, among others. The high number of patient visits she had per day left her unable to take care of each patient to the best of her ability.

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Noreta Family Medicine

JANUARY 6, 2025

This is the single biggest tip I give to my patients. Don’t forget about your mental health. Elements of diet, exercise, sleep and mental health are controllable, so focus on those, instead of the pounds on the scale! If you want to change your diet: Plan ahead. What days are you going to cook at home?

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2023

As a reminder, back in February 2023, HPM blogged about DEA’s two proposed rules for prescribing (1) controlled substances generally and (2) for buprenorphine use in opioid treatment. DEA next hosted Telemedicine Listening Sessions on September 12 and 13, 2023, for which it receive over 180 requests to present.

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Vascular Physician

JULY 11, 2021

What do patients with Raynaud's Phenomenon experience? Patients can experience numbness, aching, pain, clumsiness of motor skills of the hand, and sensations of "pins and needles". If a patient answers yes to all three of these questions, then they most likely have Raynaud phenomenon.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 10, 2023

Palmer — We blogged earlier this week here that DEA is reconsidering its proposed rules for telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances and buprenorphine. By Karla L. part 1306 (which include DEA’s general requirements for prescribing controlled substances); 88 Fed.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 10, 2023

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a co-sponsor of the Breakthrough Therapies Act in the Senate with Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), stated that MDMA and psilocybin “have shown exceptional promise in treating an array of mental health conditions, including treatment-resistant suicidal depression, anxiety, PTSD, and substance use disorders.”

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The Ryan Haight Act did not limit the ability to prescribe controlled substance medications by telemedicine so long as the patient and prescriber had a least one in-person visit. a prescriber that engages in telemedicine with the patient), including a review of PDMP data for the past year.

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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. Dr. Shay’s original definition was based upon his patients’ war narratives and Homer’s Iliad (762 B.C.)

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I went up to the front where I met two other female physicians, both in orthopedics (one of whom who was going to the same retreat in Bora Bora), and a patient in distress who we all helped together. Because if I don’t take care of myself, how can I truly take care of my patients? Then I got ready for our 5pm sunset cruise.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 11, 2025

A recent article in the BMJ summarized a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline on identification and management of gambling-related harms. Psychology Today maintains a national directory of therapists with training in CBT for gambling disorder. ** This post first appeared on the AFP Community Blog.

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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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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . 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. Learn about using the low dose buprenorphine patch: . Eric: And why Under Pressure.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. Eric 00:51 And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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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.

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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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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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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

In further contrast to the United States, MAID in Canada is almost entirely administered by a clinician, whereas in the United States patients must self administer. And importantly the patient has to have capacity and they have to be able to take the drug themselves. So being well and also potentially periods of dying.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Kit Carney and Dr. Kristen Humphrey discuss gun violence, its impact on our patients and their families, as well as practical tips on advocating for safe storage of firearms, and how we can support victims of violence. However, In adolescents, (ages 10-19), nearly 97% of firearm injuries are related to intentional homicide or suicide.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Give too much, it may cause harm (even if the higher dose had no significant side effects, it would require patients to take a lot of unnecessary additional pills as well as increase the cost.) So, what is the effective dose of palliative care? Give too little – it may not work. This is Eric Widera. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

And now what we have all been waiting for, our keynote speaker on today’s theme of mental health. In order to heal her patients she first had to heal her ailing profession. I think it’s a label that people turn to because of mental health stigma. I give you Dr. Pamela Wible. Think about it.

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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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