PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

You just got to take a good history and do a physical examination, especially when the symptoms are typical, like regurgitation, heartburn, or epigastric pain in an older child or adolescent. Again, otherwise the diagnosis is based on history and physical examination. This measures both acid and non acid reflux events.

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Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

(Published 3/18/19, updated 6/20/25) What Is Physician “Burnout”—and Why It Matters Physician “burnout” is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress in the medical workplace. So why are physicians experiencing physical and mental collapse from overwork?

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

And one of the parts of that was actually doing physicals for the students and putting them in job placements. And there’s multiple survival analyses looking at incident dementia, and hearing loss is strong, independently associated with the time to event dementia. I don’t see myself in that world.”

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Dr. Michael Bazel

JUNE 16, 2025

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

Alex: Here, I thought it was just like a relationship tension and breakup song. Eric: And anything else from the history or the physical that’s going to help you around the differential of the sleep problem? And that’s a very miserable place to be. But okay, that’s better. Here’s a little bit, just a little bit.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Appreciate how intergenerational trauma may surface amongst Asian-Americans, and how these intergenerational relationships may also offer fertile ground for generating understanding. Within Asian-American communities, intergenerational relationships can be a critical strength. Anti-Asian hate crime events during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Community Patient-Centered Relationship Healthcare 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. laughter] Carmen, welcome to the GeriPal podcast! Carmen: Thank you.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 115

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP297 “The Nature of Suffering” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for the annual CME subscription ( cost is $100 for a year’s worth of CME podcasts ), you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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IT Family Families Physicals 137

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. So there’s an event or a series of events. So there’s an event or a series of events. I guess that’s an event.

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IT Patient-Centered Individual Patients 67

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. He’s bringing in, like, a physical record player, but now also in hospice units as well, they’re bringing out music players with headphones. I am not a board certified.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. And because trust is such an important element of this relationship with the hepatologist, the whole transplant team, it’s important to be on that same page.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And as a resident, I just was drawn, similar to many oncology clinicians and fellows, to just be traumatic and difficult experience of patients with blood cancers during prolonged and intense hospitalizations, where they experience a lot of physical symptoms, emotional trauma related to the diagnoses.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. Eduardo 25:39 I think that’s wonderful, Alex, because all our social and even religious events have metaphors of food. But what I tell them is, keep yourself physically active. My daughter’s birthday.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Because sometimes they have much more longstanding relationships with these patients than me meeting them for a slice in time and trying to shuffle the deck, so to speak. If they’re frail, if they’re falling, if they have cognitive impairment, they’re at higher risk of adverse drug events. So I think more to come.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. That’s a question too, Alex.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Alex Smith Links Link to the McGill National Grand Rounds Series on Palliative Care , Michael Kearney as initial presenter, and registration for future events. I loved the relationship that we developed and the fun we had. Ive got a name. No, you dont need to be Canadian. Canadians are welcoming. And she said, I run like hell.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 104

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So the two examples that I would talk about are treatment for osteoporosis that hinges on the 10 year risk of fracture, and then treatment for hyperlipidemia that hinges on predicted 10 year cardiovascular events. ” It allows that relationship. I don’t need to get into much of the details. Eric: Yeah.

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But there physically wasn’t the time, and there wasn’t that energy to be able to do everything for. Somebody had a hyperglycemic event, so we’re going to check daily, three times a day, blood sugar sugars on everybody. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. It’s just not.

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IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 111

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

It’s such a physical act, showing just how strong doctor’s moral resolve is to save a life. But I think what I didn’t know was that when somebody makes a decision to get to a certain event that the work isn’t done then. And yet, it’s so hard to be able to draw a boundary.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Family 136

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones. I mean, obviously nobody fed her the pill with the intention of choking her, but it wasn’t like suddenly she had another event out of the blue because she had a bad heart. Eric 46:49 Yeah.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It’s about establishing a relationship and rapport. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. It’s not just about physical symptom management. You sort of had a month after all of those events. It’s about instilling coping skills. It’s about coping.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And so any additional stressor such as heat or an extreme weather event or having to move from your home because of a climate related disaster can really tax an older adult whose window of resilience is more limited. We are already seeing effects and they’re pretty much every body system.

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Healthcare IT Education Community 129

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

So people are less able to have the language when the loss event actually happens. And we’ve been really private of doing the research of really doing the deeper thinking about what the loss event happens during the loss event and how we can impact how grief is experienced later. And we don’t talk about it as much.

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Healthcare Professional Healthcare IT Relationship 102

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose. So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. Eric 05:50 Yeah.

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