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Nutrition and dietary guidelines: stirring the (policy) pot

The Health Policy Exchange

As described in a recent JAMA Internal Medicine editorial , future doctors receive little formal instruction about healthy dietary habits. Current (2010) U.S. They must learn to work in interprofessional teams with dietitians and other skilled health professionals to help patients make needed dietary changes.

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Episode 286 – Rafael Medina Subspecialty Series – Elevated Creatinine

The Clinical Problem Solvers

The goal of this series is to expand access to subspecialty, primary care and internal medicine-adjacent specialty education to learners around the world. Rafael Medina Rafa was a Brazilian medical graduate who proudly shared on Twitter, “Son of a tailor and confectionary vendor born and raised in rural Brazil.

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AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use: A Podcast with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Hot off the press is a brand spanking new updated 2023 AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. The Beers Criteria is one of the most frequently cited reference tools in geriatrics, detailing potentially inappropriate medications to prescribe to older people.

Medical 97
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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary Eric and Alex have featured discussions about complex bioethical concepts around caring for people at the end of life, including voluntarily stopping eating and drinking ( VSED ), and multiple episodes about the ethical issues surrounding medical aid in dying ( MAID ). Alex 00:14 We have a very full house today.

IT 87
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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. One of them is Karen Steinhauser’s Annals of Internal Medicine paper on, In Search of a Good Death. We got rid of all these psychotropic medications and this person … one individual had had a vascular dementia. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Aw, thanks. Ruth: Sure.