PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 24, 2025

Practice tip of the week: Hiring a marketing consultant Physicians Practice Staff June 23rd 2025 Article Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts. Practice tip of the week: Hiring a marketing consultant Physicians Practice Staff June 23rd 2025 Article Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Kemi Doll , a physician-researcher and coach, has a terrific podcast I highly recommend everyone listen to, though it is targeted at women of color in academic medicine. Summary Transcript Summary Coaching is in. When I was a junior faculty, coaching wasn’t a thing. We address: What is coaching? How does it differ from therapy?

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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Tiny Physician

AUGUST 12, 2021

Certain units of departments like general surgery and internal medicine force the boys to wear full sleeve shirts and shoes. Kerala is known for its 100% literacy and better ranks in almost all social development indices. Kulastr i” means a woman who obeys all the laws set forward by society. It includes certain dress codes also.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not. J Emerg Med.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Anish 00:24 Thanks so much for having me. Alex 00:26 And we’re delighted to welcome Emily Martin, who is a palliative care doc at UCLA. Emily, welcome to GeriPal. Emily 00:32 It’s good to be here. Alex 00:33 And delighted to welcome Evie K a lmar, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc at UCSF. Evie, welcome to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Eric: So we’ve had an interesting topic today, storytelling and medicine, narrative medicine… We’ll talk about what we should call it, but before we do, Heather, I think you have a song request. Summary Transcript Summary. But wait, there’s a shiny new anti-amyloid drug, lecanemab! (No Transcript. Here we go.

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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

She also sought input on overlapping aspects of community practice across the disciplines of internal medicine to inform ABIM’s recruitment efforts for broad physician representation in governance roles. While some of these data have been made available upon request for research purposes, ABIM has never published a consolidated report.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Eric and I weren’t sure what to call this podcast – storytelling and medicine? Narrative medicine? VA “gets” the importance of storytelling in medicine, without the need for reams of research to back it up. Summary Transcript Summary. It wasn’t until the end that the best term emerged – storycatching. Here we go.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions. Alex 02:21 For Eric 02:21 For unrepresented older adults. But before we go into that topic, Tim, I think you have a song request. Tim 02:29 Yeah, it’s such an honor to make a song request. Can you guys do that one?

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Graphic Medicine. Nathan is a Palliative Care doctor and an assistant professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . Graphic Novels. I’m not sure what to title this podcast but I’ve been looking forward to it for some time. Why, because today we have Nathan Gray joining us.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Inspired by Dani Chammass paper in Annals of Internal Medicine titled, Wishing for a no show we talk about countertransference: start by asking yourself, Why am I having difficulty? Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). What is making this hard for me?

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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. This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. What is sludge? Where was it?

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. I cant do the primary thing Ive been trained to do: ABC, ABC, ABCs. They got training in Vital Talk and ELNEC. They got feedback. So did it matter?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

All right, I’m going to start us off with one of my few questions on here because we’re going to get to exchanging stories too, is medicine is an evidence based discipline. That’s medicine. What’s the value of stories in medicine? Emily 03:59 Medicine is both a science and an art.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

On this podcast we talk about her paper in JAMA Internal Medicine which studied three hospitals that varied in the intensity of care they provided to seriously ill patients. This field is not new. In his book The Hour of our Death Philip Aries described a long evolution in western civilization of cultural attitudes towards dying.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

You did a rural tele-palliative care consultation study. And so the video consult was what became the mode. Marie 03:42 So probably the most important thing is we developed the consultation as a culturally based consultation process. And then we incorporated that information into the consultation process.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

And it just really upset me internally that we were living in a society where we were letting people fall through the cracks again, again, again and again at the end of life. Eric 05:34 Let me ask you this, is that probably every one of us and every intern and resident has cared for a Terry. Homelessness? Marginally housed?

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We discuss an article they wrote about PULET for the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, including: What makes a PULET a PULET? And I get to sing Bon Jovis Bad Medicine, which is such a fun song! Adam 01:12 American Journal of Palliative Medicine. Key ingredients are both potentially unsafe and low evidence.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. One of them is Karen Steinhauser’s Annals of Internal Medicine paper on, In Search of a Good Death. For a deeper dive, check out some of these other studies and resources we talked about in the podcast: The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Anna Pleet is an internal medicine resident at Allegheny Health Network who has a collection of amazing YouTube videos on aging and the Mediterranean diet. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Who do we have with us on this podcast?

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Summary Transcript Summary Ambivalence is a tough concept when it comes to decision-making. On the other hand, acknowledging and exploring ambivalence may lead to better, more ethical, and less biased decisions.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. We talk today with Betty Ferrell, who has been a nurse for 47 years, and is the founder and PI of ELNEC. Some numbers to back it up: ELNEC has trained more than 48,000 providers in a train the trainer model Over 1.5

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. You got it. Eric 04:06 Why is the PPS important?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It is not surprising we would internalize these norms. Summary Transcript Summary Sometimes you read a book and get a flash of insight – that “ah ha!” moment – about yourself and the ways you interact with others. That happened to me when reading “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.”

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? You may be thinking the same. Or does it raise more issues than it solves?

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