GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? But these tests were never designed to diagnose. Does a good history matter anymore?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

There is a lot to digest with these draft clinical guidelines but the big change from the 2018 guideline is moving Alzheimers to a biological diagnosis (biomarker evidence only) not just for a research framework but now from a clinical one. And that’s going to be very interesting to see how that unfolds in healthcare practice.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. Alex joined in 2018. This was 2018 in AGS Orlando, and they did a song about when to stop screening for cancer for colon cancer. Alex 05:15 Oh, really? And so we did this song.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

They had triple diagnoses, often life threatening illness, but also mental illness and usually some kind of addiction. The post Images of the Dying: A Podcast with Wendy MacNaughton, Lingsheng Li, and Frank Ostaseski appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. Why did you even bother doing this study? Jennifer 04:34 Yeah, thanks for the question.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

I think that we forget that the clinical encounter is very often just two people in a room experiencing each other, and that that’s what is the beginning of that sacred space of healthcare and healing.” Redwing: When you’re diagnosed with cancer, the first thing you think about is when you’re going to die.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Read transcript and/or download & listen to MP3 below:  Physician burnout—symptom of a broken system “Burnout” has become one of the most talked-about issues in healthcare—but behind the buzzword lies a deeper crisis. Isn’t it weird that now we’re labeling the majority of doctors with burnout in 2018?

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This episode also covers what healthcare providers need to know about post-exposure prophylaxis, respiratory precautions, and managing occupational exposures. Pediatr Rev May 2018; 39 (5): 247–257. If you’re unvaccinated and not up to date, well then what are you doing in healthcare? link] UpToDate Yeh S et al.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

On April 1, the Trump administration slashed the organization that supported that research — the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ — and fired roughly half of its remaining employees as part of a perplexing reorganization of the federal Health and Human Services Department. Now, the naysayers have triumphed.

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