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The Power of Words, 16 Years Later

A Country Doctor Writes

The piece quoted below blends the importance of choosing the right, nonjudgmental, words to describe our patients’ symptoms and personalities with the idea that we cannot treat their seemingly physical symptoms without trying to understand the context they arose from. about the Patient-Centered Medical Home. .:

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

If low bone density is present, it’s often treated alongside a weight loss program. Interventions should also take into account a patient’s motivation and preferences, any comorbidities they have, and their current diet and physical activity levels. For older adults, the YMCA’s Silver Sneakers Program is a fantastic community resource.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

PEMBlog

This year, in addition to the 10 finalists Maneesha Agarwal will be presenting at the National Conference and Exhibition we will be sharing four cases online in advance of the conference. He initially presented to his pediatrician two months prior with 10 days of cough and unexplained fevers. This is the second of the four cases.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). And that’s why we need this community support, I think. Transcript.

Community 101
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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. Lona: Absolutely. Eric: Can I touch on the last study? Was there a difference Sonali? Devika: Thank You.

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How frustrating work environment affects empathy in resident doctors?

Tiny Physician

Nevertheless, PG doctors have to work 80 to 100 hours a week without any holidays and this tiring schedule does affect their physical and mental health. Despite pushing PG doctors to their limits, faculties have no shame in asking favors like helping them prepare presentations and write-ups to submit for journals.

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Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

PEMBlog

In the case presented, the patients blood pressure was significantly elevated, and she exhibited symptoms indicative of end-organ involvement, including altered mental status, headache, and nausea.