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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Patients Screening Illness Physicals 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

And there’s so much work on, you know, you’ve got to take these medicines, you got to prevent this treat, that there isn’t that same sort of clinical momentum towards deprescribing. And I think of the analogy of, like, cancer screening. The stopping the cancer screening doesn’t have that same sort of momentum.

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Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 119

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

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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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . I’m going to share my screen and we can talk about that. And I’m just going to explain it to our listeners, what I’m seeing on my screen. Let me share my screen here. His work has been published in places like the L.A.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Patient just got discharged from the hospital, just coming back from the skilled nursing facility. So kind of using that as a springboard to identify people and then I think taking advantage of the new CMS measure, the age friendly hospital measure. And ideally at other times too.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. Annals of Internal Medicine. Like, does that indirect?

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IT Patient-Centered Screening Patients 66

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine.

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IT Community Patients Family 107

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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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Marie 03:08 So, living in Alabama, which is our palliative care desert in the south, there were no palliative care services in any of the small rural hospitals. We went to a hospital in Mississippi, one in Alabama, and one in South Carolina. By then they usually were out of the hospital actually. Eric 10:25 And who was included?

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Family 63

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Our early studies were looking at things like, desire for death, and syndromal depression, and screening for depression and anxiety, and will to live. So tiny, tiny, in a hospital bed. So Brian wrote this article in JAMA Internal Medicine arguing that we should take the word intensive out of intensive care units.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

From perhaps the most sensitive instrument that we can get the family members report, while at the same time trying to sort of screen out potential false positives that are due to false hope or something like that. So what I remember is, is multiple hospitals and they did EEG during CPR during a cardiac arrest.

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Family Families IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Then it really wasn’t until I got into medicine, medical school and residency, that I discovered poetry per se, and a mentor commented, I think to a number of us on this podcast, Steve McKee introduced me to poetry. That sense of community and connection is a healing in itself.

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Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. And guess what?

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . But hospitalizations are low.

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Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100