Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

that diet drinks have no potential negative effects for managing weight and blood sugar,” lead author Hamid R. “Our study highlights the importance of promoting water, not just low-calorie alternatives, as part of effective diabetes and weight management. . “These findings challenge a common belief in the U.S.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

Xiao Chen, from the First People’s Hospital in Neijiang in China, and colleagues examined the effects of therapeutic options on KOA in a literature review of 139 randomized controlled trials, including 9,644 KOA patients and involving 12 therapeutic options.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

Physicians, whether in small practices or employed by hospitals, face a daunting challenge when trying to get a payer to approve a medication, procedure or imaging study. The standard of care was hospital admission and surgical ablation of the obstruction to urine flow. The cost of the hospital procedure was $25,000 to $35,000.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

WEDNESDAY, June 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Getting approval from your insurance company before a procedure or treatment may soon get a little easier. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

This can also happen in a reverse scenario where the practice must turn to outsourcing as their backup plan because their staff is unqualified to manage an in-house billing program.) As Michael LeBoeuf, PhD, says in his book The Greatest Management Principle in the World (Putnam, 1985), "You get what you reward."

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

This is a blog post and a podcast episode designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Daily walking volume and walking intensity are inversely associated with the risk for chronic low back pain (LBP), according to a study published online June 13 in JAMA Network Open.

Family Practice 52

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

WEDNESDAY, June 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — THC-infused gummies and vape pens will stay legal in Texas — at least for now. Greg Abbott vetoed a bill on Sunday that would have banned the sale and use of THC consumables across the state, the Associated Press reported.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

I’m an internist, so when I hospitalize patients, 1 in 8 of my patients now takes pregabalin or gabapentin. You’re in the hospital right now, we can write you a taper, just mention to your doctor, mention to the team that you got this brochure and here’s even a suggestion for how to do it. 1 in 8 in the U.S.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

There were a number of opportunities to be involved in medical oncology and doing medical oncology rotations as a medical student, as an internal medicine residential. I didn’t know where they existed within the hospital. So we need to have a discussion upfront about how we’re managing the patient’s pain.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to focus upstream on the decision to initiate dialysis vs conservative kidney management. Let it be (hint hint). This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:12 This is Alex Smith.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Dr. Valtis is a 4th year Med-Peds Resident at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, and his research focuses on race and the utilization of security responses in the inpatient hospital setting. Yannis Valtis, Ebi Okah, and Carine Davila, about research in their respective fields.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Utilities Hospital Internal Medicine 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. Today Liz Dzeng discusses her journey towards studying this issue in detail. I guess the VA is federal though. Liz: Right.

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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

Highlights from the data so far show that 91% of respondents are clinically active, with a large majority practicing in hospital- or system-owned offices, private practice or academic faculty practice, and more than half in multi-specialty group practice. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N.

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ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

She also sought input on overlapping aspects of community practice across the disciplines of internal medicine to inform ABIM’s recruitment efforts for broad physician representation in governance roles. The Education Committee is currently working on a certificate course to follow the launch of this curriculum.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

. “The simple and universally accessible waist-to-height measurement is useful in clinical and public health practice for liver disease screening, prevention, diagnosis and management globally.” ” Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay. All rights reserved.

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Screening Diagnosis Management Clinic 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Inspired by Dani Chammass paper in Annals of Internal Medicine titled, Wishing for a no show we talk about countertransference: start by asking yourself, Why am I having difficulty? I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. What is making this hard for me? They’re often angry.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

Louisville Lectures

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

He then identifies the current infection prevention and control approach, as well as clinical management and future directions. FIDSA, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Hospital Epidemiologist, UofL Health - UofL Hospital at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Arnold, D.O., FIDSA Forest W.

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Louisville Lectures

APRIL 9, 2021

After, he explains the clinical presentation and current commendations for pharmacologic management and finally, the vaccines in phase 3 trials. Dr. Mark Burns is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Louisville. He then describes the lifecycle of Sars-CoV-2 and the events surrounding the Cytokine Storm.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. Because I also feel like we target people’s low sodium diets in the hospital. Eric 19:32 And I love this.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. Many were community hospitals.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . AlexSmithMD .

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Illness IT Families Family 109

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?” Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital. So that study was focused on patients admitted to the hospital. hospice use). Tammie 02:56 It usually doesn’t work no matter what. Corita 04:32 Yep.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

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. It’s something that has no place in a hospital in most people’s thinking. Tyler 01:43 Okay.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. It started here at Madison at one and it’s also spread outside the VA now to hospitals in Boston, Providence and now starting up actually in California and UCLA and UCSF.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

And so there’s complexity in Understanding how each state manages this. So on the clinical side, people are really focused on how long do they have to be on the ventilator and managing that. Patient just got discharged from the hospital, just coming back from the skilled nursing facility. They have an advance directive.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. You didn’t have to walk many blocks down the street to a hospital or another facility where people were getting world class care. Naheed, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Yeah, yeah.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Rehabbed to Death.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Todd: There are some studies that’ll show decreased readmission if they’re stopped in hospital. First is we had a podcast recently about gabapentin, and I know we’d mentioned Mike’s prior study in Annals of Internal Medicine on off-label use of gabapentin. Eric: I think it was under the renal.

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Medical IT Patients Clinic 97

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home. So thinking about addressing trauma as part of our management of other symptoms can be really helpful or at least taking a trauma informed lens to our medical approach.

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Patient-Centered IT Screening Patients 66

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

For this weekly treatment, the cancer team that had been consulted in the hospital told him this is nonsense. That could include a robust home care plan to manage his symptoms. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. I knew two things.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

So tiny, tiny, in a hospital bed. We published a nice piece, I think it was in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. So Brian wrote this article in JAMA Internal Medicine arguing that we should take the word intensive out of intensive care units. So incredibly muscular person. We began this here in Winnipeg.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. Equally as important, is if you wind up in an ED or being hospitalized or wind up in rehab, eventually you’re going to be discharged back home. Eric: And Susan?

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