PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When should the emergency physician obtain lab tests to medically clear such patients? There is abundant evidence showing that routine lab tests in such patients have a very low yield and are not indicated, in adults as well as in children. Decades ago, psychiatric complaints in the pediatric ED were infrequent.

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Lab Testing Medical Patients Mental Health 52

GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

My take home from this is that while the most preferred explanation for deprescribing statins and sedative-hypnotics is one focused on the risk of side effects, we also need to individualize it to the patient and the medication that they are taking. Maybe that’s where the individualizing it, the person that’s front of me.

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Specialization Medical Patient-Centered Provider 105

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

I just had lab tests done. I didn’t know which lab test got my lab tests looked on there. All of a sudden, as a 49 year old, I see I have a PSA on my lab test. I mean, I don’t want to speak to your healthcare system and what’s happened, but that to me seems inappropriate.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. They look at the signs and symptoms, they do a physical exam, maybe some lab tests or some imaging. So I just can’t keep going. They’re side to side.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 112