Louisville Lectures

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Chris Reed presents an overview of congenital arrhythmogenic pathologies by first focusing on two families of diseases: structural and conduction. He then discusses pathophysiology and cause of disease and after, the diagnostic workup and what to include in a consultation.

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ER Consulting Management Family 52

StorytellERdoc

MARCH 1, 2019

I can't pinpoint the moment exactly, but several years ago I began to notice that many of our ER patients were presenting for treatment wearing nice fluffy fleece bottoms. For the older patients, it seemed like the characters from the adult-cartoons The Simpsons and The Family Guy were a big hit. Little Pony is my favorite!"

ER 100

ER Family Families IT 100

Center for Family Medicine

MAY 21, 2025

If something feels off, erring on the side of caution and consulting a doctor is the best course of action. The post Digestive Health: When To See Your Doctor About Chronic Gut Problems appeared first on Center for Family Medicine - Sherman Texas.

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Complication Chronic Condition ER Family Medicine 52

StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Walking into Room 33, my next patient, who had come to the ER complaining of cough and cold symptoms, seemed just as I had expected. What can I do to help you in our ER today?" There is a lot of pressure being the best-looking boy in the family. I hope you, too, find new meaning in old words. Another cough.

Physicals 100

Physicals ER IT Patient-Centered 100

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Likewise, the National Institute on Aging developed a toolkit to help promote safe, effective exercise techniques for old er adults. Social support from family and friends ensures the patient has a robust support system to continue engaging in lifestyle behavior change.

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Management Primary Care Physicals Telehealth 52

PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Focusing a lot on when to image, when not to image, and how to communicate imaging decisions effectively with families.

Family 101

Family Families Hospital Patient-Centered 101

Plum Health

OCTOBER 6, 2024

He texted me, and we were able to sort out the issue in minutes—no frantic ER visits, just peace of mind. One of my favorite success stories involves a patient who had a strong family history of diabetes. In a concierge setup, I know my patients’ medical history, their families, and even their lifestyle choices in great detail.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Appointment Chronic Condition Patient-Centered 52

Blood, Sweat, and Tears

APRIL 6, 2023

I’ll be there soon” “… er actually, we have 2 red patients who came in with the police. The family thanked him again and the boy left well. I forgot for a second that in between gun fights, peoples bowels pack up too. “Thanks. I’m happy it’s not a trauma patient. I think one is a gunshot.

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Complication Patients IT ER 52

StorytellERdoc

APRIL 15, 2021

In the ER, I was your doctor. You make me proud to be a part of this big big family of mankind. Within seconds, you began to cough and gag before finally taking a deep breath. Your eyes fluttered and then finally opened. In your daze, you saw your mother's heartbroken eyes staring back at you. Her prayers were answered. You survived.

ER 100

ER IT Family Families 100

Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 17, 2023

I am also grateful for my family who stepped in after graduation and let my daughter come live with them so I could focus on intern year (they refused to let me move her to "dangerous" Philly lol) after not matching the first time. Later on in the month, I was able to take my daughter on a family trip to my alma mater LSU.

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Medical Student IT Medical Management 52

StorytellERdoc

JULY 2, 2014

I asked him about his family. Over my numerous years as an ER doctor, I have met people that I never would have had the fortune, or misfortune (as some would say), to otherwise meet. And yet, he was without a supportive family. Following this, he was caught stealing from a grocery store. Are you homeless?" "Yes,"

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Specialization ER Family Families 100

FDA Law

JANUARY 15, 2024

Let’s just say, the smackdown—er, decision—eviscerates FDA’s approach to regulating flavored e-cigarettes. This story goes back to the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which prohibits manufacturers from selling any “new tobacco product” without authorization from FDA.

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Manufacturing IT Provider ER 115

Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 1, 2022

I love my Plastic Surgery residency family! I'm not going to lie, after two years of working in the urgent care setting, being in the ER was super chill for me. I'll try my best to catch everyone up with this post, and for the sake of time, I'll try to keep it relatively brief since I know I can get a bit wordy.

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Hospital IT Medical Student ER 52

StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

I dedicate this to each of you who have cared for or are currently caring for an ill parent or family member. I had just rounded the corner of one of our busier hallways near our noisy triage area to find a favorite aide leading a family from our waiting room down the hallway toward their assigned room. You get the picture, right?

ER 100

ER Family Families Transportation 100

StorytellERdoc

MAY 7, 2020

She doesn't want to be late for her family reunion. She sits down on the cracked leather chair in front of her computer, wishing for the world she was sitting at a picnic bench with her family instead. My family practitioners' and specialists' nurses, always greeting and treating me with a big smile. You are family.

Patient-Centered 100

Patient-Centered Family Families Patients 100

StorytellERdoc

JULY 17, 2020

On arrival to our ER, we found this patient to be in pulseless ventricular tachycardia--a malignant, life-threatening electrical rhythm of the heart. As the cardiologist and our ER team continued with resuscitation efforts, I went to the family room to speak to this patient's wife. The family doctor was called.

ER 100

ER Family Families Patients 100

StorytellERdoc

MARCH 18, 2020

Gone are the carefree smiles, the uncomplicated daily lives, and the thought that we and our families are immune to unexpected death. Friends and family have asked me my thoughts on Covid-19, maybe believing I have some special information simply from being on the front lines. We are all scared.

ER 100

ER Illness Physicals Provider 100

StorytellERdoc

AUGUST 12, 2019

My beautiful work family was despondent and deflated. The loss of one child during any shift in the ER is devastating. These patients were brought to our ER in multiple rigs that could never travel fast enough in these circumstances. does one go home after a shift and pretend with your family that your heart is not bleeding?

Family 100

Family Families ER IT 100

StorytellERdoc

APRIL 23, 2014

On review of her previous visits, I had noticed that she had never been to our ER before. Bertha added, "I really hated my doctor the last time I had to go to the ER. Sam was her only immediate family left. I was also appreciative that losing a Bingo game still evoked passion from her. That was in 1975." I really like you."

ER 100

ER Emergency Room Physicals IT 100

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

So I first want to just say thank you to Ernesto’s family. And I met with his family over Zoom, which was how many of us had to meet with families during that time. We were doing a lot of this without a whole lot of guidance, as is common, I think, from family, because all they knew was who he was. Sunita: Yes.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Family 136

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. I’m very proud of the work that we do every day and we take care of patients and families no matter where they live or who they are to help them meet their end of life goals. How do we make this work for patients and families?

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IT Provider Patients Family 113

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Consider it a supplement to what you remember from Biochemistry and the instructions on the family’s laminated care plan sheet. Since an individual must have two copies of the mutation to be affected, the parents and other family members who have one copy, which are known as carriers, will be unaffected. Updated 2023 Jul 17].

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Consulting Individual Family Families 59

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

And a doc over in Spain named Monica Lalanda, who is an ER doc and also a cartoonist, reached out to me and said you don’t have to do this anonymously. Here’s another clinician saying, “I ignored a patient’s tears and gave a speech about cardiac physiology during a family meeting.” That blew my mind.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. Alex 00:12 I’m Alex Smith, and usually you ask me who we have with us today.

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IT Community Patients Families 107

Reflections of a Grady Doctor

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

And her family for now." And because I was keenly aware of the large numbers of sick patients down in the ER waiting for beds on the hospital ward, the chaotic couch would have to do. Him: *looking visibly distressed* Me: "You okay?" Him: *tearful* "No. I just really, really want to keep getting better here." Him: "With my daughter.

ER 52

ER IT Patients Family 52

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

And that was a common experience I had in my psychiatry training, was being called to the ER to see someone who’d come in with panic. And they’re like, now we want them out of the ER, but they won’t leave. All the dangerous things had been ruled out.

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER. Naheed, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Like, that goes so far.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? And it’s very traumatic obviously for the family and all of that and the team really. So I’m going to be called every 20 minutes to go to the ER.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

I felt like more often than not, we erred towards dialysis because there it is. As the caregiver or as a family member of the patient? And the question is, is this uremia or is this something else? Is it delirium from something else? And is dialysis the right treatment in this situation? It’s right there. It’s easy.

Management 116

Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

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. But this lady continued to see me every three or four months and routinely asked me the very same question.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

A huge portion of that difference in wealth you can trace back to the fact that their families were not able to get into the housing market. So there’s this myth out there like, “Oh, homeless folks are just disconnected from their friends or family, and if only we connected them by Facebook, all would be good.”

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Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

I wonder if you could suggest an empathetic conversation that I could have with her that would not sugarcoat the idea that she has cancer, but do it in the most supportive possible way, and taking into account that she’s got a family and she’s got young kids?” ” Alex: Wow. “Hi, patient’s name.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

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. . So these people had been quarantined and kept in these adult family homes where they couldn’t get exposed.

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Nurse Practitioner Patient-Centered Vaccination Emergency Room 136

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But as we talked to patients and providers, there was, really, this need for patients who wanted services, like IV antibiotics and IV fluids, but wanted to be able to spend that time at home, with their family, even if it meant it was their last days or weeks. And that’s a totally, totally appropriate question. Eric: Yeah.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115