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.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Alex 00:30 And we’re delighted to welcome Alison Huang, who’s a primary care doc and researcher and professor of medicine, urology, and epi-biostats at UCSF in the division of General Internal Medicine. It’s under recognized, under diagnosed, under treated, under discussed, understudied as a result.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. If you look in the diagnostical statistical manual, right, the sort of handbook for diagnoses, most of the diagnostic criteria are in some important ways kind of arbitrary, right?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Inspired by Dani Chammass paper in Annals of Internal Medicine titled, Wishing for a no show we talk about countertransference: start by asking yourself, Why am I having difficulty? What is making this hard for me?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

How do you do that in clinical practice, in a way that doesn’t take five hours of sitting down with somebody? So Brian wrote this article in JAMA Internal Medicine arguing that we should take the word intensive out of intensive care units. We examine, we diagnose, we fix. Eric: So how do you do that?

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. In the primary care practices that received the advance care planning intervention, rates of advance care planning were higher (about double). Before the primary care visit.

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