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. She did her MD/PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the diagnostic utility of exome sequencing for kidney disease. So, importantly, you may not have a positive family history.

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Consulting Individual Families Family 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

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. Would it have changed potentially utilization rates like hospice utilization?

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77