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. Messaging for patients and families When children have a viral respiratory illness, it is usually pretty self evident based on their symptoms e.g. runny nose, cough, congestion.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

So, we use that information to formulate a treatment plan. But again, most of my clinical practice, until recent years, has been in the acute care setting. We have patients who are acutely ill, pulmonary consequences can be really, really serious for a lot of our hospitalized patients.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

So from the simulation, the patient goes home, the physician and the physicist and the dosimetry department put together a treatment plan, and then the patient comes back for their actual fractions of their actual treatments. And so that’s sort of the stepwise process.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

37:50​ Race vs. ancestry vs genetics–implications for research and clinical practice 52:02 ​What can we start doing tomorrow? Much of the data promoting biological difference amongst races comes from poorly-designed studies where race as a variable is ill-defined or confounding variables are inadequately controlled.

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Clinical Practice Clinic Medical IT 52

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. Were you administering scales to pick up on loneliness and isolation? It’s tough.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. And if the doctors still come up with different diagnoses or perceptions of what’s happening with the patient and or treatment plans, that’s all on them.

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