The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 23, 2020

He is active in organized medicine with the American Medical Association and the American College of Physicians. She will be a hospitalist next year and is interested in medical education, empowering women in medicine and improving care for inpatients with substance use disorders.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In his book The Hour of our Death Philip Aries described a long evolution in western civilization of cultural attitudes towards dying. More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths.

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Tiny Physician

JULY 14, 2021

By the end of my internship, I was quite interested in Internal Medicine (IM) and wanted to pursue the same for my residency. Death of an elderly person may not create trouble at the hospital normally but the demise of a 7-year-old child can cause problems from agitated bystanders if not handled well. To send a DM, use Telegram.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

When we started doing more music stuff for our patients in the hospital, a lot of people started to think, hmm, what would I want to listen to? What’s your favorite book? So our inpatient hospitals are kind of under resourced for music therapy. Like, it’s like a hospital. Tyler 01:43 Okay. That’s.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. Many were community hospitals.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. Or is it just this lingering practice of starting dialysis early before really severe complications develop? Let it be (hint hint).

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Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

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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