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. Others may require comprehensive multidisciplinary care to address physical function impairment, psychosocial barriers, and medical complexity.

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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

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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. He appeared relaxed on his medical cot, lying back at 45 degrees, facing the room's door, his legs comfortably extended in front of him and his gown tied correctly behind him. Another cough.

Physicals 100

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 6, 2024

They're also called direct primary care (DPC) or personalized medical service providers. 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.

Healthcare 52

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears

APRIL 6, 2023

Too little said, too vaguely, too harshly, too impersonal, too quickly, too confusing, too much medical jargon, not enough medical detail… the list is endless. The problem is patients don’t understand medical terms often and complicated procedures are often over simplified so everyone is on the same page.

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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

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 17, 2023

When I started this blog, I had just received my first acceptance into medical school, and after scouring the web and not being able to find anyone with a similar story as mine, I wanted to create something to not only document my journey through medicine, but help inspire and encourage others to pursue their dreams as well.

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StorytellERdoc

APRIL 15, 2021

In the ER, I was your doctor. I examined you and observed you until I was certain that you were medically safe. 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. Her prayers were answered.

ER 100

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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 had never rotated in it when I was a medical student, so it was kind of cool being behind the curtain. It's the little things that make me happy.

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Hospital IT Medical Student ER 52

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. Following ACLS protocol, we hurriedly shocked this patient several times, performed CPR and administered multiple doses of medications to combat this rhythm. More medications were given.

ER 100

ER Family Families Patients 100

StorytellERdoc

MAY 7, 2020

He signs off the last of information on his seventh patient to his replacement, sharing the important medications, vitals, activities, and care-plan in depth. She doesn't want to be late for her family reunion. My family practitioners' and specialists' nurses, always greeting and treating me with a big smile.

Patient-Centered 100

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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.

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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. Wear a mask. Don't touch our faces.

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. So many medical providers gave everything they could to change the fates of these patients.

Family 100

Family Families ER IT 100

Common Sense Family Doctor

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER , by Thomas Fisher 3. The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics , by Barron Lerner 4. Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks , by Caitlin Rivers 2.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 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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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

You can hear Tyler and I having a great time singing together and sharing stories around his podcast My Medical Mixtape. And I was fortunate to record an episode of my medical mixtape with Tyler at the w hich meeting were we at, Tyler ? And so this is a shout out to our inpatient palliative team at Dell Medical School.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And I’ve noticed how we can say things like, you’re not a surgical candidate or you’re too weak to get more chemotherapy, but we can never really talk about CPR as a medical procedure in the ways we talk about other procedures and can make recommendations and offer reasoning about those procedures. This is Eric Widera.

Illness 136

Illness IT Patient-Centered Family 136

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description. JAMA Health Forum.

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IT Provider Patients Family 113

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. Susan 01:36 To reflect continuing medical management versus starting dialysis, which is what Maria’s wonderful paper goes through.

Management 116

Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

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. Brad’s not a pediatric medical geneticist. So my special guest host on this episode is a trainee in pediatrics and medical genetics. And you’re thinking, hey! No, I’m not.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Nathan: I have drawn for my entire life, but I gave up cartoons because I thought I had to during medical school and residency. But if you look at my lecture notes from medical school, it’s just plastered with cartoons and doodles. I was just thinking back to yesterday, we were in 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. I’ve been running a medical storytelling program called the Nocturnus.

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IT Community Patients Families 107

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? Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? So we know these patients are really, really sick.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] Toronto Star Feature [link] CityNews Toronto Feature [link] Psychosocial Interventions at PEACH In addition to medical care, PEACH also runs two key psychosocial interventions for our clients: PEACH Grief Circles Structured spaces for workers in the homelessness sector to process grief. those experiencing homelessness).

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

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. She entertained her family. Bill, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Then, it was like, well, it does as well as, and now, better than humans passing the medical boards, passing the law boards, doing great on the SAT, all that stuff. I think a lot of back office function, predicting ER loads and OR loads to do better scheduling of staff. ” Alex: Wow. “Hi, patient’s name. Bob: Yeah.

IT 139

IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

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

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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Nurse Practitioner Patient-Centered Vaccination Emergency Room 136

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

And we then did a bunch of work to develop medical criteria, to choose the right patients for hospital-at-home. High-level review of the evidence would tell you that patient and family member, and caregiver experience in hospital-at-home is better than when their loved one is in the hospital. We did our initial pilot study. Eric: Yeah.

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