PEMBlog

MAY 1, 2025

Well break down the virology, epidemiology, clinical presentation, and complications of Parvovirus B19. Recognize key diagnostic features that help differentiate Parvovirus B19 from other viral exanthems and systemic illnesses. Another 50% will only have mild flu-like illness, and 25% remain completely asymptomatic.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 21, 2025

This article delineates the salient clinical features, associated complications, cost considerations, and risk profiles for each virus, thereby providing a framework for informed clinical decision-making. Common Complications : Otitis media : Diagnosis is supported by the presence of a bulging tympanic membrane with purulent effusion.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 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

MARCH 14, 2024

Eric: And swallowing is complicated, right? You see something on a bedside swallow, or on a FEES, you’re diagnosing what you think it is. Eric: So let me ask you this, Rale, because I feel like, it could be wrong, but the most common time where we start diagnosing dysphagia is during a hospital stay. Nicole: Yes.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. uh, ill defined epigastric or chest pain, and it’s often worse by eating or lying down after meals. Non invasive H. Non invasive H.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

I have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. 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? Alex Gamble, do you have a song?

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Mere Mortal MD

MAY 22, 2025

My role is to head the rehabilitation team, while treating any medical complications that may arise from their initial injury or diagnoses. His medical diagnoses were stable. And yet, I don’t have any ill feelings toward him, just curiosity. He could move well enough to go home safely. But he refused to leave.

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Dr. Michael Bazel

MARCH 31, 2025

Use prescribed bronchodilators or inhalers if diagnosed. Additionally, men are often diagnosed at later stages because they may ignore early symptoms. Older men are at greater risk of developing complications from pneumonia, which can be life-threatening. Rest and stay hydrated when recovering from respiratory illnesses.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

In my previous article I covered the types of illness and the causes. One of the primary tools used in diagnosing fever is the thermometer, an instrument that measures body temperature. F (38°C) is generally regarded as indicative of illness. Managing and treating an illness involves several steps. FEVER FAQs (contd.)

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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. Millions of Americans continue to live with complications of this disease and long COVID.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Unlike appointments that address specific illnesses or injuries, preventive care visits focus on screening for potential health issues, assessing your overall wellness, and helping you establish healthy habits before problems develop. A preventive care visit serves as one of the most valuable tools for maintaining your long-term health.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

These services go beyond treating illnesses; they aim to keep you healthy in the first place. Non-life-threatening illnesses often demand quick relief options. Urgent care clinics are ideal for treating illnesses like the flu, strep throat, or severe colds. It's not quite an emergency, but you need relief fast.

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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. So cachexia, I would put it involuntary weight loss is the number one way to diagnose it.

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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

JULY 28, 2022

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. Areej: So when I was in college, I had a close friend who had a serious illness and actually died as a result of cancer. I entered medical school and I did a course that was offered that’s called living with a life threatening illness.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. She’s also a member of the PAIR Center, which stands for Palliative Advanced Illness Research Center. And bringing more palliative care to the living with serious illness instead of dying from serious illness population.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Anne Kelly: And I might add to what Anne just described in saying, I think part of the way we got to talking, getting to be able to engage the family is because we took some time to really improve our patient’s illness understanding. Eric: Lynn or Anne? But there was an impact on us as a team too. ” Thank you for explaining to us.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

To be eligible in Canada patients must have a “ grievous and irremediable ” condition, including disability ; they do not have to have a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. So less than six months to live.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. Eric: Well, Terri and Emmy, thank you for joining on this podcast. How did you both get interested in this as a topic? ” Alex: Interesting.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

And this case has been worked out the best in terms of the artificial intelligence suggesting diagnoses the clinician may have missed. Because the in serious illness care and care for older adults, their care is often very complex. And I think that’s where it gets really interesting from the standpoint of ethics. Alex: Mm-hmm.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Fox gives patients hope there may be a place that illness doesn’t touch Depression is a Liar Why is Being a Patient Such a Difficult Pill to Swallow Better Patient Care Calls for a ‘Platinum Rule’ to Replace the Golden One. Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. So there are three primary domains.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

He looked very ill. We are doulas for those with serious illness and those at end-of-life, just a longitudinal relationship, nonmedical support to provide presence. This is the non-medical part of someone being ill. The last thing I’ll say is I actually saw his very last performance. Eric: Is end-of-life doula death doula?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices. People across all diagnoses want hospice care. This is something that’s very difficult to determine in people with dementia.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The last time this happened to me I immediately went on the defensive despite years of training in serious illness communication skills. And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. And she couldn’t control her husband’s illness the way it was heading towards his death. How did you react? This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Eric 01:13 So we got a lot to cover today on sexuality, sexual health and serious illness. So we got a lot to cover on sexuality, sexual health, and serious illness. I think this is a topic we don’t talk about as much in the context of serious illness. Don, welcome to GeriPal. Don 01:11 Thank you so much.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Alex 02:44 Still suffering from some illness from there, which is why I was sick and not in the office with Eric today. But the process of implementing this project across two big health systems in our area was very complicated and had its share of both challenges and rewards. Alex (singing) Alex 02:34 All right, this was a fun one.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. And over that first 15 years, which was a very difficult time when there was no treatment at all available, everybody died and usually within months or a year or two of when they were diagnosed. And I also read that 1 out of 10 newly diagnosed HIV cases are in older adults.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. So the palliative performance scale, or PPS, is essentially a tool to help clinicians with prognostication for seriously ill or palliative care populations.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Alex 28:22 That’s not in the vital talk, serious illness, communication. And for all the ways in which every single case of brain death is so complicated, you might step back and say that brain death is working out okay in the real world, right? This is not the way you break. Sean 28:29 But that’s the.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Tertiary Prevention: Managing Existing Conditions Tertiary preventive care focuses on managing existing chronic diseases to prevent complications, improve quality of life, and reduce the negative impact of disease. These measures are taken after a disease has been diagnosed.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Aside from coughing forever, there’s some important complications you need to be aware of. So respiratory complications include apnea, secondary bacterial pneumonia, and pulmonary hypertension. And you definitely have to watch those kids very closely for the complications such as hypoxia and secondary infections.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. The Right to Try Act, signed by President Donald Trump in 2018, entitles patients with terminal illnesses to try experimental drugs, but it does not obligate insurance companies to pay for them.

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GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Eric Widera reminds us of the history of the Goldwater Act created by the American Psychological Association in the 1960s which states that psychiatrists should refrain from diagnosing public figures, and the American Medical Association code of ethics which likewise discourages armchair diagnosis (rule established in 2017).

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