Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Unlike urgent care, which is suited for non-life-threatening conditions, the ER is designed to provide immediate, high-level care for severe complications from a sore throat, such as difficulty breathing, inability to swallow, or signs of a serious infection. Paramedics can provide life-saving treatment on the way to the hospital.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

If you have a chronic condition like asthma, diabetes, or arthritis, unexpected complications or flare-ups can occur at any time. Clinics are often smaller than hospitals and may focus on a specific type of care, such as general health check-ups, urgent care, vaccinations, or specialty services like physical therapy.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. So it’s just a wide-opening lens that most of us never really get to see if we’re on the hospital-based side. Carmen: Thank you.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. People had to be in the top 20th percentile of risk for being hospitalized or dying in the next year.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Recognizing Hypertensive Emergencies The end-organ dysfunction component of this diagnosis presents as particular symptoms, physical exam findings, or laboratory and imaging results.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. And palliative care was as a program was just growing at Penn moving from just consult hospice to actually having a team when I was training. I have never myself called a palliative care consult as a trainee because we didn’t have one.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Asking clinicians to document prognosis did not change the primary outcome of hospital length of stay or really any of the secondary outcomes, which I’ll get into. Also the same hospital system? That’s when they got enrolled.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. It’s another article, another major article that has triggered the complicated UTI circuit. But what I did want to highlight is how we got to thinking about men that have UTIs have complicated UTIs.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

I mean, how do you negotiate that with the oncologist who is the one who consulted you, by the way, Eric, who does that go to? Your patients expect you to care for them, their mental well being, their physical well being. They’re asking you for a consultation. This is a complicated case. They confirm patients DNI.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications? People think of the phases of a typical clinical consultation. And that’s how we connected. Justin: That’s probably the million dollar question. When can I see again?”

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Tiny Physician

MARCH 30, 2022

Archana Sharma committed suicide because of the harassment by the bystanders of the patient who died at her hospital. She was a post-graduate in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (the branch which covers pregnancy and the female reproductive system) and she had won various accolades during her student and consultant days.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

” And Bing responded, I should ask about how AI can help identify patients who need palliative care and reduce hospitalizations, what are the benefits and challenges of using AI in decision-making, communication, palliative care, and how could AI support the quality of life and dignity of patients for those who are receiving palliative care?

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

We remember bucking the rules, figuring out who you are, hair on fire, feeling invulnerable, trying to figure out who you are – and now those adolescents are stuck in the hospital, with doctors and parents telling them what to do, having their autonomy crushed by the medical institution, realizing they’re not invulnerable. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. You didn’t have to walk many blocks down the street to a hospital or another facility where people were getting world class care. Naheed, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

I mean, just such struggles around corruption in hospitals, access to opioid pain medication, and you almost had to wait until a friend of yours was in power, so you could have access, get permission. What she called total pain, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual, and she started addressing it. They shared their experiences.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

* This episode of the GeriPal Podcast is sponsored by the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Division of Hospital Medicine , which is committed to providing outstanding, compassionate care to all patients, advancing health equity, and fostering excellence in hospital medicine. Eric 12:11 And we consult psychiatry.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. Because in medicine as somebody who works in the hospital, there’s always other treatment options. So figured out a little harmonica- Eric: That was wonderful.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And while I was in the hospital, I never actually got over, like you were talking about, Eric, my defensiveness, the sting to my ego and my character and my worth, enough to get to the place of thinking about how I could be a good doctor for him. And we received this consult to assist with goals of care. It has nothing to do with you.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. And since starting the clinic, median time for consult to death was. Liz 00:32 Thanks.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back, a frequent guest to our podcast, Rachelle Bernacki, who’s a palliative care physician and geriatrician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

What I often hear, grief, that normal, often, and we just had Holly Prigerson on the podcast talk about complicated grief, but grief in itself, that reaction, that is often triggered by loss. Because every time we remember a story, it’s changed physically in the brain. Eric: And how does that differ from grief? She was homeless.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts. I had a biopsy in a hospital last month, and one of the nurses spoke to me as if I were a 2-year-old. We need doctors and will welcome American doctors here with wide-open arms.

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