Louisville Lectures

MAY 8, 2020

She covers practical aspects of evaluating patients including appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) usage and finishes this segment with clinical exam/laboratory/imaging findings. Clinical Characteristics of 138 Hospitalized Patietns with 2019 Novel Coronavirus-Infected Pneumonia in Wuhan, China. Watch on YouTube.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

In This Issue : Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Medical Waste: One Model for Improvement OnTrack with your Sustainability Goals? Powering Health, Protecting the Planet – Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Healthcare professionals have always been trusted voices on public health.

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Plum Health

MAY 22, 2023

As employees change their healthcare usage behavior, both primary and specialty care claims decrease. Easy access and relationship-driven care minimize long-term healthcare expenses and cut down on unnecessary urgent care and emergency room visits. We invite you to speak with a member of our team for more information.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

every year, leading to emergency department visits and hospitalizations. However, this large study shows that probiotics do not significantly shorten illness duration, improve symptoms, or reduce the need for additional medical visits. Introduction Acute gastroenteritis affects millions of children in the U.S.

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

For those with serious illness, sleep problems and insomnia are all too common. Alex: And we have Cathy Alessi, who is a geriatrician, Director of the Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Care Center at the VA, greater Los Angeles and Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Sleep is a focus of your academic and clinical career.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. In 2016, The Guardian reported that a blind woman suffering from this disease was fitted with the implant labelled “bionic eye” in the UK as part of a trial at the Oxford Eye Hospital.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Differentiating these pathogens based on clinical presentation is crucial for targeted management, minimizing unnecessary diagnostic tests, and optimizing healthcare resources. Secondary bacterial pneumonia: Characterized by clinical deterioration after an initial period of improvement.

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Regulating LDTs: A Long and Winding Road In what might sound to some like protesting too much, the PR invokes FDA’s longstanding assertion that IVDs “manufactured” by laboratories are medical devices and that clinical laboratories that develop tests are acting as manufacturers. This comparison is misplaced.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Some of our healthcare systems are hard, and challenging, and I think that it’s time that we have a change. I think there’s maybe a little bit of debate as to when those turn from being just normal age related changes to then being something more, but it happens in many different areas of healthcare. Eric: Lovely.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. I’m guessing not. How to screen for hearing loss. Transcript.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. And our next guest is Amy Linsky, who’s a physician and researcher at the VA Boston Healthcare System and associate professor at Boston University University. Emily 06:11 Yeah, we definitely have a pill for every ill.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We have a discussion about the decision to remove race, a social construct, from clinical risk calculators (though I’m not 100% sold that race should always be removed – if removal is likely to worsen disparities for example – at least until a superior race-blind calculator can be developed). Alex: We have a very full house today.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Rather they’re Ill, maybe they’re aging unsuccessfully, but never really resilient. How do you maintain successful aging, which is often free of disease or illness or disability? Anne, you’ve been going to a lot of conferences on arts and healthcare, and I was thinking back to Ab years ago. It is progressive.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

AUGUST 25, 2020

Hardeman on police brutality and a public health agenda 24:00 Understanding this moment (COVID-19 and George Floyd) 29:00 The #SayHerName campaign and police brutality’s effects on women 33:00 Emmett and Mamie Till 44:00 Policing in healthcare settings 54:00 What can we start doing tomorrow? N Engl J Med. Gilbert, Kevin A.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Patients with psychosis caused by medical illness usually have abnormal vital signs, altered mental status, and impaired orientation with compromised intellectual function. Clinical utility of screening laboratory tests in pediatric psychiatric patients presenting to the emergency department for medical clearance. Ann Emerg Med.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Recurrent epilepsy In children with known seizure disorders, a new seizure can be due to the seizure disorder itself as well as medication non-adherence, sub-therapeutic antiepileptic dosing, or a lowered seizure threshold due to an acutely ill state. Glucose We all need it.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Palliative medicine focuses on quality of life for patients with serious illnesses. Objective Describe the population of patients referred to a palliative care clinic and observe their healthcare utilization patterns. Results The patients in the SMC had a mean age of 71. Among these patients, 53% identified as male.

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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. It depends on the clinical situation. And really, the best that had ever been looked at, especially in our population and sort of a cancer serious illness population.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Should we use Ozempic (if we can find it) in patients with serious illness, which often results in undesirable and profound weight loss? If in your own work, your clinical work, is this something that you see people struggle with you, you see yourself struggle with? Listen in to learn more! Eric: Let me ask you a question.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. How do you choose the right clinic when every option seems equally promising?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Dr. Valtis is a 4th year Med-Peds Resident at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, and his research focuses on race and the utilization of security responses in the inpatient hospital setting. Yannis Valtis, Ebi Okah, and Carine Davila, about research in their respective fields.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

We’ll discuss three recent clinical trials involving patients with serious illness, joined by our guests James Downar , Ali John Zarrabi , and Margaret Ross. We’re going to be talking about new research in psilocybin in serious illness. Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. This is Eric Widera.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Who do we have with us today? Devon, welcome to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

On today’s podcast we talk with three experts on buprenorphine on why, when, and how to use it in serious illness. Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . Katie, before we jump into the topic of buprenorphine in serious illness, what’s the song request?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Alex 00:26 And we’re delayed to welcome Amanda Moment, who is a palliative care social worker at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Coping in the setting of serious illness. Coping in the setting of a serious illness about a patient encounter you had with somebody who used an. Amanda, welcome to GeriPal.

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My Green Doctor

JULY 2, 2025

Here we suggest steps that healthcare managers and clinicians can take to protect their patents. The EIB developed a first-of-its-kind tool to quantify how climate hazards like heatwaves, floods, and poor air quality will drive up healthcare demand across Europe. It is time to transform healthcare systems to be climate resilient.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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. Liz: Well, some aspects of this paper around clinical momentum and things around defaults and that sort of thing. Proud Mary.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. And I think also some of the stuff we’ll be talking about, when it comes to communication, I mean, a lot of the clinical encounter is listening to the music. Eric: So yeah. It flows very well.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

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?” Wonderful work. Every Veteran has a story. Bennett, C.R.,

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Still, we havent talked about integrating palliative care into psychiatry or in the care of those with severe mental illness. What does it look like to take a palliative approach to severe mental illness? Is “terminal” mental illness a thing? For more details, please click here. (AP AP Recruit Job No.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology. I’m sort of seeing them in clinic for consideration of palliative radiation, they have a lot going on. I didn’t know where they existed within the hospital. Evie, welcome to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Communicating about a serious illness is hard. Last week’s podcast we talked about the challenge around miscommunication in serious illness. This week we dive into the challenges with communication when it comes to life sustaining treatments and CPR. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Today we talk with two psychologists who are deeply invested in addressing psychological aspects of care for people living with serious illness. That rings true to me.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary I always find cachexia in serious illness puzzling. In today’s podcast, we had the opportunity to learn from a renowned expert in palliative care, Eduardo Bruera, about cachexia and anorexia in serious illness. When people have no appetite, they know they’re ill. Eduardo 10:42 Sure, Eric.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So during the dissertation, that was a method for my PhD research and that’s related to… I was learning about African American elders experiences of psych-social-spiritual healing and serious illness. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Imagine her hearing for the first time that you’re sick, that you’re hospitalized, that you’re in the ICU, and that you can’t make your own decisions? ” and the answer is no, that probably was more just about do you need anybody to support you kind of emotionally or during this hospital stay, just give information to.

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