Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

But these early systems often struggled with complex medical terminology and the natural flow of conversation. For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions. Dragon Medical One.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

Every year, thousands of medical school graduates go unmatched. If you’re a 4th year medical student who is unmatched at this point, my advice is the following: Focus on securing a one year preliminary or transitional year position! What if I fail to match into any position?

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

MDR FDA discussed a few preliminary steps that it says laboratories should take prepare for submitting MDRs as medical device manufacturers. After a lab submits an MDR, FDA said that laboratories should save the electronic “Acknowledgement 3” (Ack3) generated after submitting an MDR in the MDR event files. By Steven J.

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Lenz, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert — FDA introduced electronic copies (eCopies) of 510(k)s in 2013 (see our prior blogs here and here ) as a way to reduce the need for submission of paper copies of 510(k)s to the Agency. This pilot program, which utilized FDA’s eSubmitter electronic submission template, ended in May 2021.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

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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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The zero-sum medical day In many healthcare systems the Epic feature is turned on and health professionals are expected to respond. The problem is that doctors work in what I call a zero-sum medical day. It’s the physics of physician bandwidth: You can’t add something without taking something away. Absolutely. Happy reading.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

By Philip Won & Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert — Over the last three and a half years, meetings with FDA were conducted virtually. CDRH recently announced its acceptance and hosting of in-person meetings, including hybrid options that allow for both physical and virtual participation.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

You spend your life dedicated to patient care while still hoping to leave work and have the energy to be mentally and physically present for your families and friends. Standard Disclaimer: None of the information on this website is meant as individualized financial or medical advice. How should doctors invest their money?

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

We didn’t have medications that were effective with a few side effects. I heard this beautiful thing the other day, which was to an electronic medical record, I am not a whole person. As my colleague mentioned, I am not a whole person to my medical record, I am a collection of codes. We’re very datified.

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FDA Law

MARCH 20, 2022

Baumhardt, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & Anne K. In recognition that hard copy communications are slower and more cumbersome, FDA recommends that firms use electronic communications, as they lay out the details of the electronic means here , to notify the public about recalls. By Philip Won & Lisa M.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

30% of eligible adults do not receive CRC screening, and disparities exist among those with multiple chronic conditions (MCC, having more than one diagnosed chronic health condition that require ongoing medical care). Outcome Measures Independent variables: MCC status (none, Physical, Mental, Physical+Mental); sludge score.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Age-appropriate physical examination that typically covers heart, lung, abdominal, skin, neurological, and musculoskeletal assessments. Evidence-based screening tests based on current medical guidelines, your age, and risk factors. Wear comfortable clothing that can be easily removed or adjusted for the physical examination.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

A 2024 study published in the journal Nature Medicine found that military veterans with brain injuries saw major mental and physical improvements after just one ibogaine session. The information you enter will appear in your e-mail message and is not retained by Medical Xpress in any form. In Brazil, the therapy has helped thousands.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

This achievement is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers in life science, physics, and computer science. The information you enter will appear in your e-mail message and is not retained by Medical Xpress in any form. Neither your address nor the recipients address will be used for any other purpose.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

provision in only English +/- Spanish), limitations of medical technology (i.e., In addition to the physical wrongs done to the victims, these acts function as community stressors that harm the mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing of so many others. Insufficient language services (i.e.,

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FDA Law

JULY 7, 2024

Laboratories struggling to understand the myriad implications of being regulated as device “manufacturers” were hopeful that additional guidance would shed light on how to apply FDA’s existing medical device regulatory framework to their operations. 803), Reporting of Corrections and Removals (21 C.F.R. § 806) and Complaint Files (21 C.F.R.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

A study by Johns Hopkins in 2016 found that medical errors may potentially be the third leading cause of death nationwide. ’ Though it often does not come with the attending salary, medical trainees are getting paid to perform a service, and hospitals provide retirement plans to these individuals. So yes, humans make mistakes.

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

There are medications that could be prescribed to help with your nicotine cravings. Refill Your Prescriptions: Follow up with your physician on necessary medications. Try shutting off the lights, putting your phone away, sleeping in a cool and comfortable bed, limiting electronics in the bedroom, and having no caffeine after 4pm.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Integration of Person-Centered Narratives Into the Electronic Health Record: Study Protocol. Connection — The Integration of a Person-Centered Narrative Intervention into the Electronic Health Record : An implementation study. Bennett, C.R., What Mattered Then, Now, and Always: Illness Narratives From Persons of Color.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Emmy: But we know that physiologic changes with aging, like decreasing night vision and so forth, as well as medications, as well as medical conditions, can all affect whether you can drive. Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. They’re really not. Those things do just accumulate with age.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. So pretty soon, I hope, we’ll be able to do this all electronically by anyone who wants to. He had a very aggressive lymphoma, highly aggressive, with a lot of different medical conditions.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And so I went into medical school wanting to cure cancer. I entered medical school and I did a course that was offered that’s called living with a life threatening illness. I entered medical school and I did a course that was offered that’s called living with a life threatening illness.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And so when I had decided to socially, medically, and surgically transition, I had to really sit down with members of the department and really did a lot of in services. Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity. Eric 04:53 How is it public? Can you tell me about that? Making sure.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA. And so mine is here at the University of Colorado system, so a non-VA system, so different electronic health records, we have Epic. And then came back. Oh my gosh.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0 And maybe there aren’t medications or procedures, but there could be some early interventions that perhaps could slow down the disease course.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She aims to become a physician-scientist in pediatrics and medical genetics, engaging in bench-to-bedside research that utilizes multi-omics-based approaches to provide a molecular diagnosis and support personalized care for individuals with suspected rare genetic diseases and their families. Brad’s not a pediatric medical geneticist.

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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. And that helped them focus on that instead of, say, the blood pressure, the vasopressors or the ventilator settings that day. Eric: And how did you do that?

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

I was always critical care bound since medical school. I’m controlling everything your placebo versus medication trials. But there’s no real system and systematic electronic way to identify need-based palliative care right now. Or there’s physical symptom needs. Kate: So it was a little windy path.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

A friend of GeriPal, and prior guest, Guy Micco commented today that we need an RCT for chaplaincy is like the idea that the humanities need to justify their value in medical training: “It’s like being told to measure the taste of orange juice with a ruler.” Really important person, who later in his life got very interested in healthcare.

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FDA Law

MAY 21, 2024

The 2016 reviews concluded that marijuana continued to meet schedule I criteria for having a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the U.S., and lacked accepted safety for use under medical supervision. 21 U.S.C. § 21 U.S.C. § 21 U.S.C. § 21 U.S.C. § 21 U.S.C. § NPRM at 44,601.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985. Bill 16:55 First of all, I just have to go back to Dax, because Dax in 1973 is when I first came out here as a senior medical student and met Al Johnson. What do you hope would change when we’re thinking about medical training?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. It’s not just about physical symptom management. And it’s a lot easier to calculate prognosis likely from, you know, the labs and the medical record than it is to, like, get patients to stomp onto a survey about quality of life.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. So we actually included that in our survey.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. Sydney 22:01 Well, it’s what’s in the electronic health record.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. And then you can make a medical recommendation that matches with what they’ve told you. I actually just said, “I’m going to be sick,” and I didn’t go into work. And that skill is hard.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Joe Rotella, who’s the Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. So now that the emergency response has ended, what’s to be done? Joe, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Joe: Great to be here.

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