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MAY 15, 2025

This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. We did another nudging trial where the deep default was for default palliative care consultations for high risk patients, and it significantly increased individuals who were receiving palliative care. Prior-auth forms?

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MARCH 3, 2022

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. It was this slow build, I would say. So, that part was not surprising.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual. So it provided just a gem of something, connection around this story that had both been meaningful to both individuals, we’re humans too, clinicians. I may have talked about it before.

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MARCH 31, 2022

And maybe, just maybe, we convince that poetry skeptic Eric Widera that there is a place for poetry in medicine after all. Links to essays and books by Marilyn McEntyre. She is written a number of books, including one that’s probably most relevant to today. Oh, is emeritus professor at UCSF, internal medicine.

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MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. We talk a lot about people being unhoused, which I think takes the blame away from the individual and kind of de. Naheed 20:04 And you know, the key to this conversation is not to put the onus on individuals.

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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. So we created these heat maps where you could see for each individual what actually happened in the days and you. And we have these.

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APRIL 24, 2025

For more, Laura suggests a book titled, How to Talk to a Science Denier. Eric 06:58 It could be CPR in an individual with metastatic cancer in the icu. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. How about parents advocating for a child?

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AUGUST 1, 2024

Anna Pleet is an internal medicine resident at Allegheny Health Network who has a collection of amazing YouTube videos on aging and the Mediterranean diet. Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. Eric 08:13 And Elizabeth, you just read a book.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. You said this journey started for you back in what? Malaz: 1999, my friend. And I was terrified. Malaz: Correct.

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