Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Waiting for their turn in the emergency room, dazed-looking parents in winter coats bounced crying children in their arms, trying to catch the eye of Dr. Erica Michiels. Pick us next! they seemed to plead with tired eyes.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Adolescents who underwent sleeve gastrectomy, a type of weight-loss surgery that involves removing part of the stomach, were less likely to go the emergency room or be admitted to the hospital in the five years after their operations than those who had their stomachs divided into pouches through gastric bypass surgery, according to new research.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Robin Wolaner, 71, a retired publisher in Sausalito, California, has been known to badger friends who delay getting recommended shots, sending them relevant medical studies. Take influenza, which annually sends from 140,000 to 710,000 people to hospitals, most of them seniors, and is fatal to 10% of hospitalized older adults.

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

For Austin Ault, he felt reassured during his time at Logansport Memorial, knowing that our dedicated team was alongside him every step of the way, including the Emergency Room , Medical/Surgical, Surgery , and Orthopedics. The medical staff on the floor was exceptional and made myself and my wife feel extremely comfortable.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 21, 2023

More than 70 people presenting at Singapore General Hospital's emergency room with chest pain have been recruited to a new randomized controlled trial of a novel AI-based cardiac risk stratification tool that can rapidly and in real-time identify people whose chest pain is a sign of more serious trouble.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Raspy cries and barky coughs echoed across the emergency room at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children on a recent chilly morning in North Philadelphia. Kids had just started to stream into the waiting room, yet every available bed was already filled.

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Plum Health

MAY 22, 2023

Easy access and relationship-driven care minimize long-term healthcare expenses and cut down on unnecessary urgent care and emergency room visits. Factors such as insurance carriers, network, hospital system(s), plan structure, location, and demographics play crucial roles.

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

You would be surprised at the number of patients who go through the process of a medical encounter only to leave with confusion, frustration, or feeling worse than prior to their encounter. Of rechecking the patient during their medical visit. Or does it? No introductions. Of a warm handshake. Of being human.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 3, 2025

That in turn would harm the finances of hospitals, nursing homes, and community health centers — which would have to absorb more of the cost of treating uninsured people — and may force them to reduce services and employees, as well as close facilities. Researchers from the Cecil G.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

We didn’t have medications that were effective with a few side effects. So we measure things like hospitalizations and ed visits and the like, and those data are a bit weaker, but they’re also, you know, I think they need to be contextualized in what, why we would even want to reduce hospitalizations right.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: Quebec administrative health databases containing de-identified prescription drug claims, ER visits, hospitalizations, and medical acts held by the National Institute for Excellence in Health and Social Services (INESSS) were used. 2) Hazard ratio for an adverse event (emergency room visit, hospitalization, or death).

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. It's a common challenge many people face.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

Dr. Margot Kushel is a Professor of Medicine and Division Chief at the Division of Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center and Director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations and UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. Do you have a medical respite center? Calac, Victor A.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Here’s a closer look at the red-flag symptoms that signal it’s time to visit urgent care for a sore throat: Severe sore throat or trouble swallowing A severe sore throat or trouble swallowing suggests you might have a more complex underlying cause needing urgent medical attention. These symptoms require immediate medical attention.

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Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

During our post-medical school residency years, we are trained by many different types of doctors including pediatricians, OB/GYNs, surgeons, psychiatrists, neurologists, ENTs and more. Some family doctors work in a residency training program where they may see patients in the hospital, out of the hospital, and deliver babies.

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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. Since patients are heavily sedated while on the vent, she spent the next 10 days in the hospital being tapered down from these medications. On arrival to the E.R.,

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

We are fortunate to have Tammie Quest, emergency and palliative trained and long a leader in this space, to help us unpack and contextualize these findings. Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

So you have your room and board, very little help. You’re independent, drive in and out, and the more help you need, so for example, now you need somebody to help with medication administration. But why I decided to look at medical and mental health care and assisted living. That’s an additional fee. Is that right?

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Asking clinicians to document prognosis did not change the primary outcome of hospital length of stay or really any of the secondary outcomes, which I’ll get into. Also the same hospital system? That’s when they got enrolled.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 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

APRIL 13, 2023

Julianne: It’s interesting because I think I read somewhere that a finding in science often takes about, on average, 17 years to make it into medical practice. We’ll talk about is it in medical practice yet? She tried to extend conversations beyond what was medically, I think, necessary for the encounter.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Justin Clapp, who is assistant professor of anesthesia and critical care and medical ethics and health policy. He’s a linguistic and medical anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania. You’re a linguistic and medical anthropologist. Gretchen: Thank you. Justin: Hello.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

We’ve also love to hear from you on twitter and facebook your own experiences writing for the medical world (and please include links!) And so, it’s about going live on stage in the medical audience, and everything from the whiteboard in the surgery room saying, “Here’s the lineup. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Ruth: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985. He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. She didn’t die in the hospital. Bill, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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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. Currently Accepted Medical Use in Treatment in the U.S. 21 U.S.C. § 21 U.S.C. §

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. And that’s critical. Eric: Yeah.

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

This federal law has required hospitals with emergency departments to provide stabilizing treatment, including abortion, to patients experiencing medical emergencies for nearly four decades. Doctors for America’s motion to intervene was filed in Catholic Medical Association v.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. And then one day when I was in my third year of medical school, I was in the gym and I hurt my back in a really horrific way. I thought I couldn’t finish medical school. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Haider.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back, a frequent guest to our podcast, Rachelle Bernacki, who’s a palliative care physician and geriatrician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. You come over to the clinic, you go to the hospital, you provide service, and the insurance and you negotiate how much you’re going to get paid. You know?

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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. The Medical Procedure The first measles vaccine was licensed in 1963 and became part of the combination measles, mumps, and rubella, or MMR, vaccine in 1971. He said he was assured that it would. Then the bills came.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We are delighted to welcome back returning guest Jenny Blumenthal-Barb y , who’s a philosopher and bioethicist and associate director of the center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Baylor College of Medicine. Like did what the surrogate recommend to do to the team or what was decided by the surrogate and the medical team?

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