Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

More than a year after her riding accident, Diamond was back at the emergency room after she tripped on a step while entering a New York restaurant. In those instances, Medicare pays first if they or their family member works at a company with fewer than 100 employees. The bill for that care: $12,000.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

The vaccines were 75% effective in preventing emergency room or urgent care visits, and 75% effective against hospitalization, both among those ages 60 to 74 and those older. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente. Research Is Proving Them Right.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 31, 2021

It's New Year's Eve, I'm currently in the Emergency Room working my final night shift for the month, and you know what? I took risks, explored, spent time with old friends while making new friends, and enjoyed time with family and the people I love.⁣ - Took an unforgettable solo birthday trip to St. I am overjoyed beyond words!

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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Vida Family Medicine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

Try to get as much rest as you can and have your partner or other family members help with infant care during the day and overnight. If you are feeling this way, put your child down in a safe place and have your partner or a friend or family member take care of your child while you take a break to rest.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 11, 2023

In fact, there are several ways that a family care physician can save your life. Preventative Care A family physician will have a complete medical history for you and your family. For example, if your family has a history of heart disease, they'll help you learn how to eat a heart-healthy diet to prevent cardiovascular problems.

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Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

What is the meaning of Family Medicine? As the name suggests, a family physician can take care of your entire family – from the day of your birth (even before!) I love family medicine because as family physicians, we can be trained to provide care for patients in many different settings. What is primary care?

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StorytellERdoc

APRIL 23, 2014

Of dropping everything at that very moment to be at their parent's side during an Emergency Room visit. Sam was her only immediate family left. It was my way of acknowledging and validating their efforts in helping their ill parent in a time of need. Of putting to the side their own needs and demands. I grabbed Ms.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

MARCH 1, 2025

For example, when cleaning it’s important to know that bleach plus ammonia equals a trip to the emergency room. Talk to a doctor at Center for Family Medicine for more information about poison control. If an incident should occur, remember to contact emergency services, and know that we’re here to help with recovery.

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Metro Family Physicians

APRIL 19, 2023

By the 4th day, she was coughing & a little short of breath, which continued to worsen rapidly, so that on 4/15/2020, she had to go to the Emergency Room. days, she was not able to be hugged by her family. MPH-on behalf of Metro Family Physicians. She developed a high fever to 102+ approx. On arrival to the E.R.,

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

If they didn’t do it all by themselves, they talked to the family and it was a conversation, but also there wasn’t a whole lot that doctors can do then. And that changed in 1969 I think the first advanced directive was created by Luis Kutner. Bernie: Well, there was a time when doctors made these decisions.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

JANUARY 1, 2025

What symptoms warrant a trip to the emergency room vs. convenient care? No matter what stage your child is in, we are help you at Center for Family Medicine. The post Pediatric Check-Ups appeared first on Center for Family Medicine. Which vaccines are needed now?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

” Somehow, there’s this signal that the patients and families had to pick up that maybe the surgeon wasn’t so enthusiastic, or if I just dump risk on them, maybe they’ll say, “I don’t want this.” What I need to navigate with that patient and their family, is it valuable to you? Every time.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

I think for families and for other providers who are not trained in that, it’s very hard to predict. And I think it’s something to consider that at some point, we talked to caregivers families about perhaps not focusing on the encephalopathy. I could imagine that could lead to conflict.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They may have few family members, live alone. I called my parents, and we talked.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Whereas the home with the low rate of feeding tube use involved families in decision making. Whereas the high-intensity nursing homes tended not to have a process or did not include families. There was a hesitancy to engage black families.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

I am part of some other work in the ICU world looking at time-limited trials and trying to better define what those are, how we talk about them, how we talk about them with patients and families. Emergency rooms. Eric: To all of our emergency medicine colleagues, saved the best for the last. Eric: Okay. Corita: Yes.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

When patients leave the hospital, the infection may be cured, but the patient and family will need to contend with a host of major new functional and cognitive deficits. You can use that when you’re talking to families about prognostication. Alex: What happens when people survive? It’s not just about the ICU.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

” I think that’s what I’m talking about with action, or it might be family leave policies. If I can share in my own family, my grandmother died early in the pandemic, just before her 97th birthday. For others, it reminded them of the experiences they’ve had in caring for someone that they love in their family.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A lot of assisted livings, it’s acted like it’s not even a choice, that it’s usually the default is you go to the emergency room. For those of you who do family meetings, doesn’t that take a lot of time? And family members should know that this needs to go on.”

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

That put me in the emergency room. But you really should be looking at family history, personal history. We were trying to treat the side effects of one medication, and I ended up on polypharmacy at a pretty young age and ended up with serotonin syndrome. Eloise 45:05 I definitely worry about. Eric 45:24 Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Why is that important in the emergency room? Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. And it’s very traumatic obviously for the family and all of that and the team really. Did this primary palliative care intervention in the emergency room involving a.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

She entertained her family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, you’re having your family, Christmas coming up. You’re going to go traveling to Hawaii with your family, and, you know, you want to die in January. And so I thought about it a while, called, and sure enough, they brought him up to the emergency room.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. To learn more about what we talked about, check out the following links: Eldercare Locator, a public service of the U.S.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. It’s hard for your family to know. Juliet: Because even in the ICU, they’ll often have multiple meetings just to try and help a family move along before they can make a decision. It’s part of our family mythology.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

And because of this encounter, this patient went to the emergency room twice due to having panic episodes that felt like heart attacks. And also, you know, do they know of anyone, friends, family, coworkers who’s been attacked, were assaulted as a part of these incidents? How have they been hearing about these issues?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

So, in mid-March, he took his family to a primary care clinic at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Nguyen, who is a UTMB postdoctoral fellow in public health and infectious disease, said he asked clinic staff whether his family’s insurance would cover the checkups and immunizations. Then the bills came.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Lucky, Jim and many others like him were willing to come on to our podcast those first several months of the pandemic and share their experiences and lessons learned caring for COVID positive patients and their family members. . Or, if they were in the emergency room and decided to be admitted for comfort measures only, I would admit them.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We would find these people in the hospital, and we said, “What would you have thought if someone had come up to you in the emergency room yesterday, and said, ‘Hey, instead of going upstairs, you could go home.’ And then, the patient can bypass the emergency room entirely. We did our initial pilot study.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

You basically don’t even ask the family, you just stop the bleeding. Are you encountering family members who are just, like, at a loss for what to do and tortured it? Patients who are sort of estranged from family members who then have to make these decisions for somebody that they don’t really know. You know, they.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

They rushed to the emergency room, fearing a dangerous bowel impaction. Researchers are learning that obesity’s drivers can be environmental, familial, or genetic. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

.” Hospitals that do stay afloat likely will do so by cutting services that are particularly dependent on Medicaid reimbursements, such as labor and delivery units, mental health care, and emergency rooms. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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Doctors for America

APRIL 22, 2025

Since Columbine, there have been over 420 school shootings in the United States, resulting in countless deaths and lifelong trauma for students, educators, families, and communities. Doctors see the human toll of gun violence every single day—in emergency rooms, in trauma centers, and in the quiet moments of grief that follow.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

In KFF poll results released in June, nearly two-thirds of people surveyed viewed the bill unfavorably and more than half said they were worried federal funding cuts would hurt their family’s ability to obtain and afford health care. She also doesn’t make enough for a free or reduced-cost ACA plan.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

But that’s when his family began fighting another adversary: their health insurer, which decided the treatment was “not medically necessary,” according to insurance paperwork. When the Tennant family was told histotripsy would cost $50,000 and insurance wouldn’t cover it, they appealed the denial four times.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

In our city of Victoria, for instance, many people do not have a family doctor because so many doctors have retired; those who are left are unable to take new patients because their lists are full. This would present a valuable opportunity for doctors and their families to learn French. Canada fits Americans comfortably.

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