Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

If there’s visual symptoms, patients are often hospitalized for high dose intravenous symptoms. GCA is a medical emergency because untreated inflammation of the cranial and large vessels can lead to irreversible complications, most notably permanent vision loss or aortic dissection. As soon as giant cell arteritis is suspected.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 20, 2024

ECPR involves using ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) to take over heart and lung functions, offering a last-resort option that is becoming more common in large pediatric hospitals. The episode highlights the importance of understanding eCPR as a critical therapy for both in-hospital and out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.

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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. I know this is like, we’re talking about math and so that makes it all a little complicated, but think about it this way. The old table, 1.5 Drew: Not boxed.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things. Why would we want to?

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StorytellERdoc

MARCH 18, 2020

Friends and family have asked me my thoughts on Covid-19, maybe believing I have some special information simply from being on the front lines. I recently finished seven consecutive shifts in which I, along with my incredible co-workers, have been part of our hospital's evolving approach to the growing concern of Covid-19.

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

COVID-19 infection continues to result in hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations annually, and causes the deaths of hundreds of Americans each week. Millions of Americans continue to live with complications of this disease and long COVID. We need all tools available to prevent complications of COVID-19.

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Vascular Physician

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The TCAR procedure also utilizes a special tool that reverses the blood flow that usually goes from the aorta to carotid and to the brain. In-hospital complications for either procedure are rare ( The following video is a representation of the procedure: TCAR (Transcarotid Arterial Revascularization) References 1.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

The law directs Texas universities and hospitals to lead the research. "If we had said were going to do this for the homeless or the prison population, the Legislature might not have been as willing to get on board," he added. It also makes sure the state keeps a share in future profits if the drug is approved.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

During this episode, we gained insight from special guests Dr. Margot Kushel and Mr. Bobby Watts about what brought them into their fields, how their work reaches the most marginalized, and what can be done at the community and structural level to address homelessness. They would eventually end up back at where the hospitals they came from.

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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. A clinic is a medical facility where healthcare professionals provide specialized medical care to patients. Sudden flare-ups of chronic conditions can also necessitate immediate care. What is in a clinic?

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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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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

She called the NIH news “a complicated mix of emotions,” CNN said. “We Allison also noted that the community has also been pushing for an emergency declaration that would give residents access to special Medicare benefits to help pay for medical care tied to chemical exposure, CNN said. We desperately need real medical support.”

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

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. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. So if one of my patients gets admitted, I also see them on the inpatient side of our hospital. I’ve seen patients post transplant when they start having complications. They are complicated. They’re complicated from a symptom standpoint.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

When we started doing more music stuff for our patients in the hospital, a lot of people started to think, hmm, what would I want to listen to? My voice is nothing special. So our inpatient hospitals are kind of under resourced for music therapy. Like, it’s like a hospital. Tyler 01:43 Okay. Alex 09:00 Not true.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2022

Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . Kind of flabbergasting.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? I do tend to focus in the hospital setting. By diagnosis?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. Overtreatment leads to hospitalizations, undertreatment leads to disease progression. And for some of them, the stays in hospitals are a month long. Do you worry about that? Mazie: Yes.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

And my grandkid, like, I need you to see this child and, like, how wonderful and special they are. This is a complicated case. Gordon 41:13 The hospital is also on fire. I want you to be able to be in the hospital and be with your loved one. I heard that. And that is not actually tangential. Eric 40:08 Great. And I want.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. Eric: We have a smorgasbord, if you will, of papers that got published recently around hospice, and that’s why we’re calling it a hospice super special. -@AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Complicated grief? Health care system drives where you end up, which hospital, which state you live in. So if we said, like, did you make a decision while one of your loved ones was in the hospital, they would say, Oh, yeah, absolutely. Did the caregiver feel heard and understood? Did they have PTSD? Depression?

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Then in the OpenNotes work that I do, I was hired to take something complicated like transparency and patients having access to their full records in medicine, and then making that something that the lay public understood. It feels special to me. She’s not in hospice, and you’re talking about admitting her to the hospital.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Alex 02:20 (singing) “ Well, you wake up in the morning you hear the church bell ring and they march you to the table to see the same old thing ain’t no food upon the table ain’t no pork up in the pan but you better not complain boy, you get in trouble with a man let the midnight special shine a light on me.

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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 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Naomi: Well, I have a special place of not being a doctor within this great group of people. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004. Epub ahead of print. Eric: How do you think about it, Naomi?

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. In San Francisco, HIV care was more specialized in that. Meredith, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Meredith 00:48 Thank you, Alex and Eric. Peter 08:06 Yeah, generally that’s true.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. 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 25:08 Super special.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

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. And that included scheduling a visit with a, with a facilitator who had been specially trained. The intervention itself is very straightforward.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

To examine how clinicians might act in the face of such bans, we turn to Lori Freedman, who wrote a book about clinicians (primarily Ob-Gyn’s) who work in Catholic Hospitals. Lori Freedman’s book (forthcoming) – Bishops and Bodies: Reproductive Care in American Catholic Hospitals. Lisa Harris piece mentioned on podcast.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide. These human rights violations are perpetuated in first-world brand-name hospitals. We should be completely ashamed that this is going on in our hospitals. This is going to cause problems for the next generation.

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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. Doctors who agree to work for the armed forces receive special benefits. 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.

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