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You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

PEMBlog

System level innovations such as the electronic health platform, including order entry, were intended to improve efficiency but may result in the unintended consequence of making it easier to order a chest radiograph without substantiating the need or in conflict with best clinical practice guidelines.

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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

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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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. It’s since spread to over 70 VAs. Bennett, C.R.,

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. This is my early father’s day gift from the family. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Transcript. Eric: Yeah.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Tell me about your illness. How did you get into this? Heather: Sure.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Not the most common circumstances that people with serious illness face where attention and understanding of what my goals and values are. Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. ” Very specific, rare circumstance.

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