Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

Violence in hospital emergency departments (EDs) has reached crisis levels. The emergency room has become a pressure cooker, and healthcare professionals are paying the price. Empowering healthcare workers with practical skills can disrupt that cycle. The severity of this problem has even made its way into pop culture.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 8, 2025

In 2024, the New York City Department of Health held a series of workshops on hospital emergency responses to an improvised nuclear detonation by a nonstate terrorist actor. The world is woefully unprepared for the health consequences of the use of a single nuclear device, much less a nuclear war.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

There is robust data regarding the importance of patient connection and engagement in the hospital and clinic setting. However, a less examined aspect is patient and community engagement outside traditional healthcare settings. Engaging with patients and the community outside the exam room is crucial for several reasons.

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Chronic Disease Management Community Education Chronic Disease 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them? Kellie Flood’s paper in JAMA IM showing that not only ACE units deliver better care, but also help with the hospitals bottom line. Eric: And we’re going to be talking about improving hospital care for older adults via ACE units, or acute care for elders.

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Hospital Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 100

GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I think … There’s so few, seriously, from the hospital system and the pathologizing systems to the more social care intervention work that Susan and I really do. Anne, you’ve been going to a lot of conferences on arts and healthcare, and I was thinking back to Ab years ago. Eric: This is wonderful. But we have to.

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Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101

FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Houck One of the most significant issues facing hospitals and other facilities is the diversion of controlled substances meant for patients by physicians, pharmacists, nurses and other trusted healthcare employees. Employee diversion can also result in unwanted local and national publicity.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The problem is, that’s actually not a very good narrative for nearly everything we take care of in healthcare. You may not see the big picture, like treating somebody with advanced dementia by hospitalizing them and starting antibiotics for aspiration pneumonia and potentially a peg tube. Problem, fix for the problem.

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