Barton Associates

JUNE 19, 2025

In fact, hospitals, clinics, and other facilities are already reeling from a shortage of providers and it’s hurting patients— according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , tens of millions of Americans live in areas with shortages of primary care, dental, and mental health professionals.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Biden administration on Thursday offered assistance to communities and hospitals dealing with a surge in cases of pediatric respiratory illnesses, but it did not declare a national public health emergency.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 22, 2020

Her main research interests are in understanding how the social environment contributes to disease and modifies disease course in low-income communities and communities of color. He has interests in medical ethics and critical illness communication.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 6, 2025

It’s home to many reputable healthcare employers, from private practices like the Physicians Alliance of Connecticut to major hospital systems like Yale New Haven Health. Residents can access top hospitals, vibrant communities, and many lifestyle amenities, including parks, museums, and restaurants.

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Whether it be for chronic pain, for chronic illness, for companionship, simply to have a place to hang out for a few hours, or to get some food, we are often inundated with these patients at the most inopportune times. Several tan plastic bags (with a local market's emblem) occupied both his walker's seat as well as a maroon hospital chair.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Patients with documented mental illness or substance use disorders (SUDs) continue to encounter a mixed—sometimes starkly divergent—quality of emergency department (ED) care when they present with chest pain, abdominal pain, or other non‑psychiatric complaints, according to a patient‑interview study published in Health Services Research.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 14, 2020

An essential part of the diagnostic process involves creating a problem representation (PR) and then trying to match that PR to a specific illness script. But, this requires an adequate understanding of the syndrome and having well-defined illness scripts. Part of the problem is that we are still figuring out this illness.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JANUARY 12, 2021

She has contributed to the CPSolvers on Virtual Morning Report on several occasions and produced a few videos for their illness scripts. He has always been fascinated by communication and the brain, seeking to combine his interests by becoming a neurologist involved in medical education.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

In this episode we dive into the resurgence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae an atypical bacterial cause of community-acquired pneumonia thats making waves in pediatric emergency medicine. Mycoplasma pneumoniae as a Cause of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Children. Plus, well discuss whether M. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2025 Feb 17.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . It is a heavy load and yet I think all of us here think that it can be lighter when there are supportive programs and community engagements in place. And that’s why we need this community support, I think. Transcript.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

The Department of Energy’s Energy.gov – Enhanced Community Resilience : Clinics powered by renewable energy are better equipped to maintain operations during power outages, ensuring uninterrupted patient care during emergencies. hospital upwards of $240,000 over 5 years. hospital could save $240,000 per year.”

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

The company has expanded its palliative care services through partnerships with hospitals and other managed care providers, according to AccentCare CEO Stephan Rodgers. We deepen ourselves into the fabric of care and we make healthcare work for people who are seriously ill. Alex, what’s going on here? Do you remember what it is?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities. Sonali: This seven versus 14 days for male UTI combines really well with the gram negative bacteriemia paper because sometimes we are faced with patients in the hospital which are disposition issue. Lona: Absolutely.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Choosing Wisely Pediatric Emergency Medicine Recommendations The Choosing Wisely Campaign Toolkit Expert Contributors Michele Nypaver, MD University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA michelen@med.umich.edu Jennifer Thull-Freedman, MD Alberta Children’s Hospital Calgary, Alberta, Canada Jennifer.Thull-Freedman@albertahealthservices.ca

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

AUGUST 25, 2020

Heightened police presence in communities of color can be perceived as a threat by community members which can result in sustained increases in stress and cortisol levels. Jefferson & Hedwig Lee (2020) Illness spillovers of lethal police violence: the significance of gendered marginalization. N Engl J Med. Gilbert, Kevin A.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

But estimates in community dwelling older adults are around 15%. And then when you look long-term care facilities, more between that like 35 to 50%, and then much higher estimates in hospitalized older adults. Eric: And why is it more common in hospitalized adults? What happens after they develop dysphagia in the hospital?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Alex 00:36 And next we have Connie Fung, who I know well through the Beeson community and is a physician, researcher, professor of medicine at UCLA. Emily 06:11 Yeah, we definitely have a pill for every ill. I’m an internist, so when I hospitalize patients, 1 in 8 of my patients now takes pregabalin or gabapentin.

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Tiny Physician

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Without even forming an enquiry committee, he was suspended for a few days by the hospital administration in order to satisfy the public. Even though doctors are in no way responsible for the lack of facilities in hospitals like lack of beds, delay in getting blood test results, delay in getting a slot for scanning, etc.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Should we use Ozempic (if we can find it) in patients with serious illness, which often results in undesirable and profound weight loss? This hasn’t floated into our hospital systems yet, but at least in the real world, people are using these to make insulin dosing decisions without needing to poke their fingers.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. And really, the best that had ever been looked at, especially in our population and sort of a cancer serious illness population. Landmark study.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

We’ll discuss three recent clinical trials involving patients with serious illness, joined by our guests James Downar , Ali John Zarrabi , and Margaret Ross. We’re going to be talking about new research in psilocybin in serious illness. Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

As climate change increases in certain pediatric illnesses like asthma, pediatricians have a role in caring for children, especially in vulnerable communities. How are children in vulnerable communities at greater risk? Addressing the climate crisis needs to be multipronged. In the US, EWEs cause 60% of power outages.

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

As physicians, we know that access to these evidence-based tools to prevent severe illness, disability, and death, are essential to the care of our patients and our shared goal to improve the health of all Americans. Our impact areas focus on access to affordable care, community health and prevention, and health justice and equity.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Dr. Valtis is a 4th year Med-Peds Resident at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, and his research focuses on race and the utilization of security responses in the inpatient hospital setting. Yannis Valtis, Ebi Okah, and Carine Davila, about research in their respective fields. Calac, Victor A.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. Today Liz Dzeng discusses her journey towards studying this issue in detail. I guess the VA is federal though.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary How do people react when they hear they have a serious illness? And some people, in addition or instead, engage in deep introspection on how to make meaning or live with or understand this experience of serious illness. Shock, “like a car is rushing straight at me” (says Bill Gardner on our podcast).

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. In their communities? The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. With their regular providers?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 28, 2025

70 people (14%) have been hospitalized for serious illnesses, and one child and one adult have died. Increasing vaccine hesitancy has depressed measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination rates in the affected jurisdictions, making more people vulnerable to the highly contagious illness. since last week.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary I always find cachexia in serious illness puzzling. In today’s podcast, we had the opportunity to learn from a renowned expert in palliative care, Eduardo Bruera, about cachexia and anorexia in serious illness. Thank you for that gift to our community and to the patients. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing. We had tried to actually select people who didn’t have a serious illness. Marian: Thank you.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. Additional links: Editorial on Areej’s study. Palliative care in lung and GI cancers. Transcript.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, and LJ Van Scoy argue that diverse communities are asking for ACP. Sarah Nouri gives an example from her work in the LGBTQ+ community of a trans woman who was buried as a man because existing laws/rules did not protect her wishes. I would like to request the Friendship Train by Gladys Knight and the Pips.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Bennett, C.R., Schilling, L., Doorenbos, A. PMID: 26701962.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Today we talk with Sarguni Singh, hospitalist-researcher at the University of Colorado, Ann Henshaw, Occupational Therapist who teaches at George Washington and works clinically at Georgetown, and Tamra Keeney, Physical Therapist-researcher at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Tamra, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

“A lot of times when we talk about mental illness or mental health, I think there’s a lot missing from the conversation,” Dr. Joy said. “I It doesn’t always have to be about mental illness.” In 1891, Williams opened Provident Hospital, the first medical facility to have an interracial staff. Their impact continues to grow!

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Many were community hospitals. Participants were critically ill and intubated. What is sludge? What to make of that?

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