Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives To assess overall medication adherence as an indicator for emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality among elderly patients. We retrieved information on all ER visits and hospitalizations in internal medicine and surgical wards from 2017 to 2019 and mortality in 2019. The mean age was 81.2

Hypertension 130

Hypertension Diabetes ER Medical 130

Tiny Physician

JULY 12, 2021

One of my batch mates cleared AIIMS in his first attempt and secured a seat in the Internal Medicine department of one of the AIIMS; however, he wrote AIIMS PG entrance again 6 months later and joined Dermatology department of same college because of the torture he faced at his former department.

Internal Medicine 52

Internal Medicine Management ER Referral 52

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. I think I certainly have had a lot of friends and colleagues in internal medicine who are so fearful that, oh, if I get this definition wrong, I’m going to cause some harm.

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

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. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. And I found myself, at times, kind of at a.

IT 97

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

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? So I’m going to be called every 20 minutes to go to the ER. But what do we do about the majority of our patients who get discharged home? So we try a pilot.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . 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. This could be something that meshes with your life and medicine. So I got back into it anonymously. Alex: Okay.

IT 145

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. And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine.

IT 107

IT Community Patients Families 107