PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

This is a blog post and a podcast episode 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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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 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. JAMA Pediatr.

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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. Ann Emerg Med.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

Reynolds May 27th 2025 Article Boost clinic morale and productivity with eight quick, evidence-based strategies to energize your team and enhance patient care after long weekends. 8 ways to re-energize staff after a long weekend Keith A. Practice tip of the week: Bringing your staff joy Keith A.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 24, 2025

The nine tweaks that follow show how any clinic can freshen its look and feel without gutting the budget or closing the doors for a month-long renovation. Thoughtful design calms nerves, boosts online reviews and even shortens exam times by nudging patients smoothly from check-in to checkout.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 25, 2025

Dr. Baum is Professor of Clinical Urology at Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Baum is the author of Marketing Your Clinical Practice-Ethically, Effectively, and Economicall y, which is in its 4th edition, has sold over 175,000 copies and has been translated into Spanish. About Neil Baum, M.D.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

is a professor of clinical urology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. My takeaway message is that confronting the health care payment process can be daunting. But remember, sometimes the Davids really do beat the Goliaths! Neil Baum, M.D. ,

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 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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Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

Neil Baum, MD , a Professor of Clinical Urology at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. Practices that continue to do what they have been doing for decades are going to get left behind. Please consider adopting a few of these action steps to reinvent and reconfigure the way you attract and retain patients in your practice.

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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. His team found that 1.5%

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Why this study was a success due to the sheer size (nearly 100,000 patients in about 30 EDs) of the study, and the fact that, as far as the investigators know, all study sites continue to employ the clinical decision support tool. And then we had clinical decision support. What is a clinical decision support? Long overdue.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . What are your thoughts about using humor to convey ideas, thoughts, clinical work? Occasionally, people will come to me and say, like when I’m meeting them in the clinic and say, “Hey, we Googled you. His work has been published in places like the L.A.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And we had a greater decrease in symptom intensity at day seven versus the usual care group by both a clinically meaningful and a statistically significant difference. And resource utilization was very low in all the groups. And resource utilization was very low in all the groups. It was not very different. It was not different.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. We didn’t make them communicate it, but we focused them on it, which makes them more likely to then utilize that information. And it’s the right thing to do clinically for patients and families.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

And so the importance of the picture and the epiphany that really came many years later, I published a paper in the Journal of Clinical Oncology called Dignity in the Eye of the Beholder. How do you do that in clinical practice, in a way that doesn’t take five hours of sitting down with somebody? Eric: So how do you do that?

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Eric: Which is, so let’s say I am a provider, a healthcare provider taking, let’s say a nurse practitioner working in an older, a clinic that’s mainly caring for older adults. And then, the system responds in turn. Alex: I want to pick up on this thread and talk- Lindsey: I really- Alex: Oh, Lindsey, jump in there.

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GeriPal

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. So IU, we have been able to convert our paper, Chris Callahan paper that was published in 2006, the first clinical trial that was positive. Malaz: 1999, my friend. And I was terrified.

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