FDA Law

AUGUST 21, 2023

Brand drugs, generic drugs, and medical devices alike have all been the target of state failure-to-warn litigation; in a recent case, OTC acetaminophen is the target. Interestingly, the Plaintiffs alleged that this duty existed when the mother was pregnant in 2015 even though the studies relied upon in the litigation are from 2021.

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Manufacturing Consulting Healthcare Professional Vaccination 40

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome Joel Weissman, who is a health services researcher and deputy director and chief science officer for surgery at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Harvard Medical School. Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Very excited to be here. Tamra, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As many of us who are trainees in medicine, we go to different institutions throughout our training, medical school, residency, fellowship, wherever we end up for our careers. And so for me, I started off at one particular institution for medical school and went to another and noticed quite a few differences.

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Hospital IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Heather: I do Alex, and I’m so happy to have this song request, it’s called The Eye by Brandi Carlile, which comes from a quite old 2015 album called The Firewatcher’s Daughter. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Julien, let’s start off with, congratulations by the way and Lauren too, the CHEST paper that just got published on Trends in Geriatric Conditions Among Older Adults in the ICU between 1998 and 2015. Lauren: Although again, still thinking about what that means for an individual older adult is really important.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

On last week’s podcast we interviewed the medical director and the chaplain of the prison’s hospice unit (Hospice in Prison Part 1 ). Alex: Coming up we talk with three pastoral care workers who are inmates who have been volunteering in the hospice at the California Medical Facility prison for some time. So that touches you.

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IT Family Families Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. I just want to highlight some work. There’s a cost avoidance aspect to it, too.

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Family Families IT Patients 106

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. And we have gone from 250 members at the end of 2015 to about 26,000 right now across the United States and a number of chapters that have grown. And then for medical education, I know they are doing a lot as well.

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Healthcare IT Education Hospital 129

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

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.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 106

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016. Eric: … you’re getting paid for individual encounters, not going to people’s homes, not being paid for all of the additional support that’s needed for comprehensive cancer care. But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

No matter what your position on medical aid in dying (I’m ambivalent) or abortion (I’m pro-choice), this is a bioethics podcast, and I hope that we can all agree that the ethical issues at stake deserve a critical re-think. Today, medical aid in dying is legal in some 10 states, and illegal in others. . Summary Transcript Summary.

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