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Placebo, Nocebo, and the Power of Expectation: What a Scoping Review Means for Everyday Care
In the ED, your words can be as powerful as your meds. In this episode, PGY-3 Dr Kotei unpacks the science of placebo and nocebo, showing how communication shapes patient outcomes—and how small shifts in framing, empathy, and reassurance can turn talk into treatment.
Grand Rounds Recap 8.9.23
Join us as we recap our last week of Grand Rounds, including our first intern lecture of the year focusing on pericarditis & myocarditis. Learn about the art of skillfully resuscitating a patient with an LVAD, as well as the tips/tricks for effectively communicating with patients, from our senior residents. Learn how to confidently handle ENT emergencies in the community and orthopedic trauma in a limited-resource settings. Our pharmacy colleagues gave us an timely update on use of Precedex in the ED, as well as Andexxa vs. PCC for reversal of Xa-inhibitors. Lastly, our pediatric EM colleagues joined us to discuss to subtle difference in diagnosis and management of neonatal & pediatric seizures compared to adults.
Grand Rounds Recap 7.3.19
Welcome to the new Academic Year! We started the year off with Dr. Pancioli giving us some context of how EM got to where it is and where it is going. Dr Palmer then inspired us to consider our role in the teamwork that is patient care. Dr McDonough then led us in an exercise of delivering bad news to patients, and some of the nuance that is dealing with breadth of reactions to it.