FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

However, FDA states that this exemption does not apply to corporate or hospital laboratories that employ licensed practitioners, and the agency says FD&C Act otherwise contains no exception or limitation for devices manufactured by laboratories. This comparison is misplaced.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

Differentiate Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia from typical bacterial and viral pneumonia based on history, physical exam findings, and diagnostic testing. It’s often accompanied by wheezing and or rails, and fever and illness are typically milder. Clinical Features and Management Strategies in Children With Mycoplasma Pneumoniae.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

And that led to many specialists doing work and advancing their fields within their professional societies, providing guidance and so on for older adults. So transmission of other drug resistant organisms and C difficile to other patients in the hospital reduces if you control. Diff rates, for example at a unit level.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. And one of the parts of that was actually doing physicals for the students and putting them in job placements.

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Tiny Physician

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Without even forming an enquiry committee, he was suspended for a few days by the hospital administration in order to satisfy the public. Nevertheless, PG doctors have to work 80 to 100 hours a week without any holidays and this tiring schedule does affect their physical and mental health. patients show their frustration at doctors.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Emily 06:11 Yeah, we definitely have a pill for every ill. I’m an internist, so when I hospitalize patients, 1 in 8 of my patients now takes pregabalin or gabapentin. We have staff that circulate between the hospitals and part of it is if the staff start to learn about it, there could be some contamination of your control.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A careful history and physical examination are ways that we as providers can “see what’s going on inside the head.” Occult trauma Any trauma that is not seen on your physical (e.g. This includes scarring abnormalities, bleeds, and tumors. Glucose We all need it.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Rather they’re Ill, maybe they’re aging unsuccessfully, but never really resilient. How do you maintain successful aging, which is often free of disease or illness or disability? Anyone with neurologic illnesses, I think all of you know, too much socialization is like, stop. It is progressive. There is no cure.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

They carry existing diagnoses and are followed by outpatient mental health providers. Patients with psychosis caused by medical illness usually have abnormal vital signs, altered mental status, and impaired orientation with compromised intellectual function. Acute onset psychosis is relatively rare.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Should we use Ozempic (if we can find it) in patients with serious illness, which often results in undesirable and profound weight loss? This hasn’t floated into our hospital systems yet, but at least in the real world, people are using these to make insulin dosing decisions without needing to poke their fingers. Absolutely.

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StorytellERdoc

MARCH 18, 2020

Being an ER physician facing this dilemma on the front lines of a large emergency and trauma center, I am also bearing witness to the more daunting picture of this dilemma--the mental and physical effects Covid-19 is having on our patients as well as on all of us. Don't bog down our front-line medical providers with mild symptoms.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

We’ll discuss three recent clinical trials involving patients with serious illness, joined by our guests James Downar , Ali John Zarrabi , and Margaret Ross. We’re going to be talking about new research in psilocybin in serious illness. Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology. The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. Eric 04:49 Drew me to the field physics and math. I didn’t know where they existed within the hospital.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

They also provide immunizations and lifestyle advice tailored to your specific needs. These services go beyond treating illnesses; they aim to keep you healthy in the first place. It creates a continuous health history that benefits both you and your provider. Non-life-threatening illnesses often demand quick relief options.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. With their regular providers? The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. In their communities?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Still, we havent talked about integrating palliative care into psychiatry or in the care of those with severe mental illness. What does it look like to take a palliative approach to severe mental illness? Is “terminal” mental illness a thing? For more details, please click here. (AP AP Recruit Job No.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. Eric: Yeah.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Communicating about a serious illness is hard. Last week’s podcast we talked about the challenge around miscommunication in serious illness. Sunita: Honestly, I’d be happy to provide the vocals. Take for example the simple question: “If her breathing gets any worse, she will need to be intubated.”

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Today we talk with two psychologists who are deeply invested in addressing psychological aspects of care for people living with serious illness. That rings true to me.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary I always find cachexia in serious illness puzzling. I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address it. Eduardo 07:17 Well, we had a palliative care unit in another hospital that was 510 minutes away. I mean, come on.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Bennett, C.R., Schilling, L., Doorenbos, A. PMID: 26701962.

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Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

Part 2 Here are some frequently asked questions I get as a Primary Care Provider. Therefore, family physicians are trained to do minor surgical procedures in the office, care for kids and adults, provide various GYN services, among many other comprehensive services for patients. What is primary care? You can tell me anything!

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. Additional links: Editorial on Areej’s study. Palliative care in lung and GI cancers. Transcript.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing. We had tried to actually select people who didn’t have a serious illness. Marian: Thank you.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Serious illness communication is hard. During the podcast, we reference a newly released second-edition book that our guests published titled “ Navigating Communication with Seriously Ill Patients: Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope.” Eric 01:42 So we’ ve got an exciting topic today.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So during the dissertation, that was a method for my PhD research and that’s related to… I was learning about African American elders experiences of psych-social-spiritual healing and serious illness. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. So it sounds like them.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury. Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

To be eligible in Canada patients must have a “ grievous and irremediable ” condition, including disability ; they do not have to have a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. She’s also a member of the PAIR Center, which stands for Palliative Advanced Illness Research Center. I do tend to focus in the hospital setting.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Eric: I’m looking forward to talking about art and humor in palliative care and we’re caring for seriously ill patients. So for those listening to the podcast, this is a clown looking very sad and what looks like a hospital administrator. And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. We didn’t think that there was something unique to the modality delivery in which palliative care was providing that care. Who will emerge victorious? Eric 10:25 Great.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

We remember bucking the rules, figuring out who you are, hair on fire, feeling invulnerable, trying to figure out who you are – and now those adolescents are stuck in the hospital, with doctors and parents telling them what to do, having their autonomy crushed by the medical institution, realizing they’re not invulnerable. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. His story, which he shares on todays podcast, is remarkable.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. The illness narratives suffering, healing, and the human condition. I mean, to me, the Buddhist concept that there are multiple forms of suffering, like there’s the suffering that’s due to pain and physical symptoms. Pain Manag Nurs.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. Why focus on the public rather than other health care providers? How you actually physically started doing this and built up so many followers over time and why are you doing it? AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. When we started doing more music stuff for our patients in the hospital, a lot of people started to think, hmm, what would I want to listen to? So our inpatient hospitals are kind of under resourced for music therapy. That’s.

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