PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The diagnosis of a virus illness is generally made clinically with a history and clinical exam and does not require confirmatory testing. Reasons to not order a comprehensive respiratory viral panel (i.e., antivirals for influenza) or public health recommendations (e.g., isolation for SARS-CoV-2).

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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. But again, most of my clinical practice, until recent years, has been in the acute care setting. Here at UW Health, we call it our Swallow Service.

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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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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. Should they?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Not my normal clinical practice. I wish they were just a diagnosis. 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. I started bending over backwards.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Camargo, Clinical Trial: Comparative Effectiveness of Cephalexin Plus Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Versus Cephalexin Alone for Treatment of Uncomplicated Cellulitis: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 56, Issue 12, 15 June 2013, Pages 1754–1762, [link] Liu C, Bayer A, Cosgrove SE, et al.

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