The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

This discussion is hosted by Naomi Fields, MD, Chioma Onuoha, and Victor Lopez-Carmen MPH, as they interview Dr. Kozhimannil—the Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Rural Health Research Center.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? And then I met a patient in clinic once who asked me a lot of really intelligent questions about medical cannabis, what it does. They just kept at it.

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Two out of three drug overdose deaths in 2018 involved an opioid – be it prescription opioids, heroin, or synthetic opioids. 6 As a result of these and many other actions, the death toll from opioid overdose fell by more than 4% between 2017 and 2018. 2 Opioids contribute a large share of this overdose crisis.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

The FDA-approved indications for gabapentin are only for treating patients with partial seizures or postherpetic neuralgia. valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. There are a lot of reasons that may explain the massive increase in use of these drugs.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

2018 Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews on ACP. Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Susan Hickman, who is professor at the Indiana University schools of nursing and medicine, and is director of the IU Center for Aging Research at the Regenstrief Institute. Alex: What did it changed to after 2018?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

He is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin and medical director of their Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. So let’s just say you have a healthy 55 year old or 65 year old in your clinic. That screening influences kind of further treatment, actually, probably more importantly, patient outcomes.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

Praised by the FDA, Alzheimer’s Association (AA), and Pharma as a “game changer”, but derided by others for the drug’s lack of clinical efficacy, risk of severe adverse effects, absence of diversity in trial populations, high costs, and an FDA approval process that was in the kindest words “rife with irregularities”.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together?

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

How the act of drawing can help us sloooow down, pay attention to the people and world around us, and ultimately let go… The possibility of incorporating drawings in research and even clinical care. About 25, maybe even 30 years ago, at the Zen center in Green Gulch in Marin. Frank, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. That was it.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Today’s podcast is a follow up to our 2018 podcast with Randy Curtis about the Jumpstart intervention. On that podcast he and collaborators tested a combined patient and clinician facing communication priming intervention to promote goals of care conversations. Randy died February 26, 2023. Welcome, Bob.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. Only 5% of intervention patients received the facilitator-led component of the intervention (there were other components, facilitator-led was the most engaged component). Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. And maybe we should have more patient-centered conversations. It’s hard for your family to know. Should we throw it out?

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry puts us in our patient’s shoes. Poetry holds us in that liminal space so many of our patients are in. Alex: We also have Mike Rabow, who is director of palliative care at the Cancer Center at UCSF. Isn’t that what we always work with, with patients, with our colleagues, with ourselves? Redwing: Thank you.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 23, 2025

This post first appeared on March 6, 2018, during the first Trump administration's failed attempt to eliminate the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Nonetheless, its work has often been politically unpopular and unheralded outside of a small community of health services researchers and patient advocates.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Drawing from her experience running a physician suicide helpline , she speaks candidly about the emotional toll of assembly-line medicine , the link between overwork and doctor suicide , and the revolutionary joy of reclaiming your career by launching your own ideal clinic. I give you Dr. Pamela Wible. Pamela Wible soon discovered why.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Insurers also pledged to use clear language when communicating with patients and promised that medical professionals would review coverage denials. “The pledge is not a mandate,” Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said during a news conference.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Until recently, the only treatment was growth hormone therapy to help patients stay leaner and grow taller, but it didn’t address appetite. This breakthrough for these patients comes as other drugs are revolutionizing how doctors treat obesity, which affects more than 40% of American adults. Kennedy Jr.

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PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

2018 Nov;142(5):e20181009. Epub 2018 Oct 8. Family history of febrile seizures. Both the motor movements and characteristics of the seizure, as well as the duration, are really hard to assess in a patient’s home. And let’s be honest, the term simple sort of undersells how scary this is for families.

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