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How frustrating work environment affects empathy in resident doctors?

Tiny Physician

There is an increasing trend in the number of medico-legal cases filed against doctors and doctors have started practicing defensive medicine (the ordering of tests, procedures, referrals, or avoidance of high-risk patients or procedures, to reduce medico-legal cases) for the sake of their safety. patients show their frustration at doctors.

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

GeriPal

There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. And I think that there is room for shortening the duration if your patient is non-immunocompromised and not severely ill. Eric: That’s pretty impressive. You don’t want to mess around with that situation.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. We would make referrals to psycho oncology.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population. I’ll just throw out there people with serious illness experiencing homelessness.

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

GeriPal

There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. And I think that there is room for shortening the duration if your patient is non-immunocompromised and not severely ill. Eric: That’s pretty impressive. You don’t want to mess around with that situation.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

Juliet and Rachelle are two of the authors of a recent JAMA viewpoint titled “Shifting to Serious Illness Communication.” . Also see the image below from Alex’s editorial in JAGS , a Venn diagram of advance care planning and serious illness communication. Shifting to Serious Illness Communication. Transcript. What is it?

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

Do All Children Who Present With a Complex Febrile Seizure Need a Lumbar Puncture? Febrile seizures are due to the degree of fever, not the rate of temperature rise, even though we see them as the temperature is increasing rapidly in the early parts of the illness. who have more febrile illnesses. Ann Emerg Med. 2016.11.024.

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