PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

As we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s important to remember that most viral respiratory infections can be diagnosed based on symptoms alone, and in otherwise healthy children, they are all generally managed the same. Reasons to not order a comprehensive respiratory viral panel (i.e.,

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Patients Illness Hospital Management 52

GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

So, the consult will come in and then we’ll do what we call a clinical bedside evaluation, where we’ll go and see the patient at the bedside. You see something on a bedside swallow, or on a FEES, you’re diagnosing what you think it is. Here at UW Health, we call it our Swallow Service. Raele: Yes.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

If somebody has cancer and they’re recently diagnosed, somebody has cancer and they’re undergoing active treatment, somebody has cancer and they’re in early remission, now they’re a year or two years, three years, four years out and they still have pain. Jessie: Yes. And then, looking at- Eric: Wow. So, one out of 10?

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. In case you miss the introductions at the start of the podcast, Bernie and Laurie are married, and offer wonderful reminiscence of their clinical practice over the last several decades.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 113

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. Ashwin Kotwal: Yeah, and Thomas, I know this is something we’ve talked about as a group too, which is how do you translate some of these scales that we use in large studies to our clinical practice?

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 100

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. We’ve all been taught through fellowship or through clinical practice about how to assess pain. They’re often angry.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 74

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Not my normal clinical practice. And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. And we received this consult to assist with goals of care. I recently had an angry patient and I had the opposite enactment. I was so concerned about wanting this guy to like me that I let our visits run over a bunch. Dani: Go for it.

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