Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

So, in 2016, she celebrated her 60th birthday at her local CVS. The vaccines were 75% effective in preventing emergency room or urgent care visits, and 75% effective against hospitalization, both among those ages 60 to 74 and those older. “I was there when they opened,” Beckham recalled.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field. This isn’t to say we’ve “made it” – more to say that we’ve reached a new stage of maturation of the field – in which the evidence we are discussing is frequently high quality randomized trial level data. -@AlexSmithMD Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. Today we focus on an intervention , published in JAMA, that gave emergency clinicians basic palliative care knowledge, training, and skills. They got training in Vital Talk and ELNEC.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

And so, it’s about going live on stage in the medical audience, and everything from the whiteboard in the surgery room saying, “Here’s the lineup. But before we go into that topic, I think, Liz, you got a song request for Alex. Liz: That’s right. It’s called the Beginning of the End and it’s by Weezer.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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