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Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

The Clinical Problem Solvers

The episode also explores how digital tools can help youth manage their mental health, while also noting the need for culturally relevant care providers. 38,3 (2008): 323-33. Simon shares his work as Boston’s first Chief Behavioral Health Officer, prioritizing substance use treatment and uplifting Black and Indigenous communities.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

Yes, you need some protected time for leaders to provide training and structure and oversight and ongoing quality assurance, but the heaviest sort of cost lift sometimes is redesigning the physical space. So the system drives the providers to deliver age friendly care. And so there’s not a lot of added cost. Eric: Okay.

Hospital 101
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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

This was an investigative report about fraud and healthcare, pure fraud, pure victimization of vulnerable people. She happened to focus on some specific for-profit hospice providers. They were all actually publicly traded or private equity owned for-profit hospice providers. It feels somewhat random in some ways.

IT 115
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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

IT 127
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Psilocybin in Serious Illness: James Downar, Ali John Zarrabi and Margaret Ross

GeriPal

So these were people who are felt to have like, all you had to do is basically have more than a month to live just so we could get through the protocol in order to be included in the study and followed by a palliative care provider. Some of them also had psychiatric or psychosocial oncology providers as well.

Illness 109
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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . And that’s a lot easier if all providers were X waivered too. So this is 2008 when they were running this study, I’m like why did the heck did they choose buprenorphine? Nobody uses buprenorphine.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

But, you know, I’ve talked to a lot of palliative care providers, a lot of people caring for people with serious illness. I think in the era when I trained in the 2008 timeframe, you know, it was very much just like somebody has pain, they need opioids, they have pain, they have more pain, they need lots more opioids.