PEMBlog

MAY 17, 2023

Furthermore, the connection between physical and functional symptoms is inextricably linked in many patients. After listening to this episode you will be able to: Describe the findings on history and physical examination that differentiate organic vs psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

These factors may have impacted their diet, physical activity, and medications, thus impacting their creatinine levels and the inputs that we use for GFR. education, income, number of previous hospitalizations) that also lead to clinical outcomes, not only race-based stratification. N Engl J Med. 2010;363(7):609-619. J Am Coll Cardiol.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

Moreover, the non-prosecution agreement resulting from the criminal investigation illustrates the extent of liability for hospitals and other health care entities and the importance to maintain robust controls and oversight over employee activities related to dispensing and administering controlled substances. 4, 2022).

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Choosing Wisely Pediatric Emergency Medicine Recommendations The Choosing Wisely Campaign Toolkit Expert Contributors Michele Nypaver, MD University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA michelen@med.umich.edu Jennifer Thull-Freedman, MD Alberta Children’s Hospital Calgary, Alberta, Canada Jennifer.Thull-Freedman@albertahealthservices.ca

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

So we measure things like hospitalizations and ed visits and the like, and those data are a bit weaker, but they’re also, you know, I think they need to be contextualized in what, why we would even want to reduce hospitalizations right. Why would we want to? Anna 22:46 I actually think you could. Yeah, Medicaid program.

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

I think the classic example is somebody who just came out of the hospital, they’re put on these new medications because they were having problems in the hospital and now they’re home and they don’t need those anymore. I think every patient I see in the hospital’s on melatonin. Cathy: Well, yeah.

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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. And the truth is, I am not sure what to think at this point. Take a walk.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

APRIL 23, 2025

Dr. Condrell specializes in acute and urgent care, annual physicals, cardiac evaluations, preventative health, sports injuries, and vaccinations. He then graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, with a Master of Science before earning his Doctor of Medicine from Georgetown University School of Medicine.

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Mere Mortal MD

JUNE 5, 2025

I even thought at one point that I would want to become an oncologist, a physician that specializes in taking care of patients with cancer. Apoptosis is a crucial way for our cell lines to maintain their health and function throughout our lives, which translates into our own personal physical health.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

The law directs Texas universities and hospitals to lead the research. A 2024 study published in the journal Nature Medicine found that military veterans with brain injuries saw major mental and physical improvements after just one ibogaine session. It also makes sure the state keeps a share in future profits if the drug is approved.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

A clinic is a medical facility where healthcare professionals provide specialized medical care to patients. Clinics are often smaller than hospitals and may focus on a specific type of care, such as general health check-ups, urgent care, vaccinations, or specialty services like physical therapy. What is in a clinic?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. People had to be in the top 20th percentile of risk for being hospitalized or dying in the next year.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

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. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, where the derailment occurred, have pressed the government to do more to answer questions about the mental and physical health effects of the disaster — from post-traumatic stress to cancer. We desperately need real medical support.”

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PEMBlog

MAY 24, 2023

This entails utilizing the least invasive non-pharmacologic means of assisting them, before moving to physical or chemical restraints. Special thanks to Manpreet Singh, MD ( @MprizzleER ) for helping to put this collaboration together. Deaths due to physical restraint. Physical and chemical restraints. Dtsch Arztebl Int.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

’ Though it often does not come with the attending salary, medical trainees are getting paid to perform a service, and hospitals provide retirement plans to these individuals. This way, you are always on track to meet your savings goals while limiting the physical and mental effort needed to get there. Set it and forget it!

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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? My voice is nothing special. A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. That’s.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. 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. I think there is definitely a place, especially physical. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023.11.004.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. In other words, in addition to being a specialist (e.g. But how about you!

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. Do you worry about that? We actually have the majority.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. So in our trial, because of security reasons, we are required by Health Canada to store the substance in a special secure area in my office. We dedicated team working with cancer and palliative medicine in our hospital. James, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Im b leary eyed.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. 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. Transcript Eric 00:00 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

So for those listening to the podcast, this is a clown looking very sad and what looks like a hospital administrator. And the hospital administrator says, “No, the hospital definitely values your contributions to the interdisciplinary team. Eric: Speaking of a niche humor, I love this one. Nathan: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Asking clinicians to document prognosis did not change the primary outcome of hospital length of stay or really any of the secondary outcomes, which I’ll get into. Also the same hospital system? That’s when they got enrolled.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary As far as weve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way? I was trained in the hospital where it started, and we were trained to be bedside nurses. Sue 01:26 Thank you.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? I do tend to focus in the hospital setting. By diagnosis?

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

My special guest podcaster, Emily Groopman, is an actual Pediatric Geneticist in training and we hope that you will find this episode useful. So my special guest host on this episode is a trainee in pediatrics and medical genetics. Her name is Emily Groopman, and she’s a current resident at Children’s National Hospital.

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PEMBlog

JULY 10, 2024

And I’ve got a special guest host. My name is Emily Labudde, and I’m a third year pediatric resident at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, and I’ll be starting fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine this summer at Emory University Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

And my grandkid, like, I need you to see this child and, like, how wonderful and special they are. Your patients expect you to care for them, their mental well being, their physical well being. Gordon 41:13 The hospital is also on fire. I want you to be able to be in the hospital and be with your loved one. I heard that.

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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. Ruth: Thank you.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. 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.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Alex 02:20 (singing) “ Well, you wake up in the morning you hear the church bell ring and they march you to the table to see the same old thing ain’t no food upon the table ain’t no pork up in the pan but you better not complain boy, you get in trouble with a man let the midnight special shine a light on me. I mean, come on.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. So if one of my patients gets admitted, I also see them on the inpatient side of our hospital. I’m embedded in the ICU in one of our smaller hospitals. You still want to go to the hospital if you get sick? And so I thought it was appropriate.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Then there was that New England Journal catalyst study that showed that the healthcare executives thought that 60% of the people in their hospitals who could benefit from palliative care weren’t getting it. We have a problem in the field that we’re considered the acute death team at the hospital. So that’s the thing.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

There’s no special thing to say, but sometimes we’re tempted to treat serious illness communication in that way, conversational judo or something, that I can maneuver around an encounter and create something new. All these studies in this fringe… We want the special key. And oftentimes there is no password.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

How you actually physically started doing this and built up so many followers over time and why are you doing it? Alex: Generally in the hospital-based hospice. Matt: I’m more of a hospital guy. Eric: So we got a lot to talk about. So I don’t know, Alex and Eric, if you work in people’s homes, but do you?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

He had a 14 month recovery in hospital and rehab and continually asked to have life sustaining treatment suspended so that he could be allowed to die. So she bled a lot and finally called for help and was transferred to the hospital, where she started crashing in the trauma room. She didn’t die in the hospital. And I was.

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