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The Medical Futurist
JUNE 21, 2025
Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. In 2016, The Guardian reported that a blind woman suffering from this disease was fitted with the implant labelled “bionic eye” in the UK as part of a trial at the Oxford Eye Hospital.
PEMBlog
AUGUST 30, 2023
The Choosing Wisely Pediatric Emergency Medicine Recommendations The Choosing Wisely Campaign Toolkit Expert Contributors Michele Nypaver, MD University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA michelen@med.umich.edu Jennifer Thull-Freedman, MD Alberta Children’s Hospital Calgary, Alberta, Canada Jennifer.Thull-Freedman@albertahealthservices.ca
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GeriPal
JULY 28, 2022
GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. 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. Additional links: Editorial on Areej’s study. Palliative care in lung and GI cancers.
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? Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral?
GeriPal
APRIL 10, 2025
I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.
GeriPal
APRIL 4, 2024
The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). What words to use? Is the POLST useful?
GeriPal
MARCH 28, 2024
Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Alex: Recently you talked about the other trial, also with a nudge, and that was non-cancer, serious illness. Eric: Okay.
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