Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

JANUARY 24, 2022

Blood pressure is the pressure of blood “pushing against the walls of your arteries” As blood rushes from your heart to other organs, it helps to replenish nutrients and transport oxygen. Many patients do not recognize elevated blood pressure as it can be subtle such as intermittent vision change or headaches.

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Laboratories are responsible under CLIA to ensure that the specimen collection and transport method adequately maintains sample integrity. Javitt & Jeffrey N. One example is a short provision that could have a large adverse effect on telehealth-based laboratory testing by sharply restricting grandfathering. This is not a trivial matter.

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PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Optimizing Advanced Imaging of the Pediatric Patient in the Emergency Department: Policy Statement. Pediatrics. 2024;154(1):e2024066854.

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Vascular Physician

JUNE 27, 2021

This outpatient procedure results in minimal to no scarring, bruising or swelling and patients can typically resume normal activities within a few days. Patients may feel a mild discomfort during the procedure. Patients may feel a mild discomfort during the procedure. Myth #2: Only women get varicose veins.

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Vascular Physician

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Most patients can expect to recover in the hospital for 1-2 days after surgery. Your healthcare team will also care for your wounds, change dressings, and ensure that your pain is managed appropriately. Your healthcare provider will also schedule follow-up appointments and prescribe any new prescriptions you may need.

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StorytellERdoc

APRIL 11, 2014

And with this visual of her swing set, I was suddenly transported back to my own childhood--back to the powder-blue swing set that sat in our family's yard alongside the lilac bushes and sandbox. Appreciation from patients and co-workers. Moments that were no more. My legs I could control. This darn "kick ditch" image.

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AMMD

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

They also include mammary ducts that store and transport the milk. This is why conventional physicians treat DCIS in patients with surgery, radiation, and sometimes chemotherapy. In 2024, I had another scare. My annual mammogram picked up calcifications again. She again recommended an MRI with contrast and another breast biopsy.

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Priority Physicians

JANUARY 27, 2025

Many of us know where our meals come from, have sufficient clothing, enjoy roofs over our heads, access heating and air conditioning, use reliable transportation, and receive effective medications. We all want to know how to stop fearing the future. Although anxiety appears to be the new malady du jour , much of it is natural and normal.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

Boarding of Mentally Ill Patients in Emergency Departments: American Psychiatric Association Resource Document. Characteristics, Clinical Care, and Disposition Barriers for Mental Health Patients Boarding in the Emergency Department. It is also the final episode in a 5 episode series focused on agitation in children and adolescents.

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PEMBlog

MAY 31, 2023

When we think of managing agitated patients we think of medicines – but that shouldn’t be our first option. Qualitative study of patient experiences and care observations during agitation events in the emergency department: implications for systems-based practice. PMID: 36948291. 2022 May 11;12(5):e059876.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 16, 2025

The American Thoracic Society’s 2015 study, “The Relationship of Mucus Concentration (Hydration) to Mucus Osmotic Pressure and Transport in Chronic Bronchitis,” found that clearing excess mucus is a significant factor in protecting the lungs from “inhaled infectious and noninfectious challenges.”

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PEMBlog

MAY 17, 2023

Furthermore, the connection between physical and functional symptoms is inextricably linked in many patients. Diagnostic yield of head CT in pediatric emergency department patients with acute psychosis or hallucinations. Why then do we persist with the “is it medical/organic or psych” question? Pediatr Radiol 2019; 49:240.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

The inclusion of a requirement to test twice over three days with at least 48 hours between tests is consistent with study findings from the National Institute of Health published in 2022 ( LINK ); however, it is not clear if this proposed use case is practical for “point-of-care” outside of an in-patient setting.

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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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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

CDRH may express concerns that patients will not understand when the test is appropriate for them, that they will misinterpret or overly rely on results, or that they will forego or delay visits to a doctor. By McKenzie E. Cato & Jeffrey N. Gibbs & Allyson B. lay users). seeking treatment).

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary If you’re anything like me, you might find the process of what happens to patients when they visit a radiation oncologist somewhat mysterious. Anish 01:02 Well, I speak, you know, from a physician lens of some of the patients that I get referred, and by the time there’s. Emily, welcome to GeriPal.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Methods: In-depth semi-structured interviews using the Database of Individual Patient Experiences (DIPEx) methodology. About 90% were either currently or formerly undocumented, 2/3 spoke Spanish, 2/3 made <$50,000 annually, and 1/3 reported inadequate transportation.

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Recently, due to the stress that several of my dearest friends have been experiencing in caring for their elderly parents, I am even more appreciative and respectful of my privilege in caring for elderly patients who have attentive and loving adult children who accompany them to our ER. Later, she found me. Can you believe that family?

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StorytellERdoc

JULY 17, 2020

The patient arrived in cardiac arrest. His transport from his house to our department had been less than ten minutes and the pre-hospital team had done an excellent job of intubating this patient and establishing an IV to begin resuscitation efforts. A picture is worth a thousand words. His wife was with him.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. They were stunned by the number of calls for lift assistance for older adults who had fallen. There were trip hazards, loose carpets, some people were hoarders. And yet, after assisting the older adult to their feet, the EMS providers would leave. Their job was done. Alex: That is true.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out!

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So I think the first reason that we saw and felt the opportunity was ripe for updating was that some of us had come across some anecdotal examples of patients expressing some offense to that terminology. And I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive. Can you guys do that one? Eric 02:39 Absolutely.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. He’s in Boston. Parag 01:06 Thank you.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

However, it is important to think about individual stories within the broader historical and sociocultural context; for instance, you cannot highlight stories in individual physician-patient dyads, without discussing mechanisms of racialized, historical, or sociocultural power and other larger structural forces.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. But I believe before we start, somebody has a song request for Alex. Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is. Eric: What’s the song? Emmy: I just forgot the name of the song… [laughter]. Alex: Pink Cadillac by Bruce Springsteen? I like that song.

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The Physicians Foundation

MAY 20, 2025

The Physicians Foundation announces the 2025 recipient of the Drivers of Health (DOH) Fellowship Program, urges physicians to screen patients for DOH BOSTON, May 21, 2025 – Today, The Physicians Foundation reinforces its efforts to help physicians address drivers of health (DOH) to improve a person’s overall health.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 11, 2021

Kudos to the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) for recognizing the increased demand for treatment by patients with opioid use disorder in underserved and remote areas and, most important, for taking steps to improve access. They cannot transport patients. By Larry K. Overdose Deaths Accelerating During Covid-19 (Dec.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Janet Abrahm is one of the world’s experts in pain and symptom management for patients with cancer joins us to talk about (among other things): Ketamine for hyperalgesia and allodynia, how to treat dissociative side effects. Taught me everything I know about symptom management for patients with cancer. Lidocaine: worth the hype?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

We talked with Thor Ringler, who helped found the My Life My Story Project at the VA and beyond, and Heather Coats about the evidence base for capturing patient stories. With Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani we talked about stories written up in the academic literature, such as the JAMA Piece of My Mind series. That’s medicine.

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PEMBlog

MAY 24, 2023

Patient that are agitated should always be treated with dignity and respect. Structured team approach to the agitated patient in the emergency department. This entails utilizing the least invasive non-pharmacologic means of assisting them, before moving to physical or chemical restraints. Emerg Med Clin North Am. doi: 10.1016/j.emc.2009.07.003.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Eric 03:25 So we have a lot to talk about, but I’m wondering if we can kind of take a big step back and just talk about the patient population that’s in nursing homes. Cari 01:42 I would like to request Hallelujah, one of my favorite songs. And I love hearing you sing, and so it’s an excuse to have you sing a beautiful song.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

After doing her MD PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the genetic diagnosis of kidney disease, she started her residency training with the long term goal of being a physician scientist caring for patients with rare genetic disorders. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. And you’re thinking, hey!

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 9, 2024

For rare diseases, although patient numbers may be too small to detect meaningful differences in safety or effectiveness, the Draft Guidance states that consistent representative enrollment may still provide opportunities for hypothesis generation and further study. population demographics. population demographics.

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

Rosanne: I think I was motivated by the number of times patients asked me to get rid of their pot-bellies, quite honestly. So I felt like over all these years I have learned so much from my patients and from the science, that it should be out there in one place where people can easily access it and help themselves. And I loved it.

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