Doctor Rachel

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Many of my patients struggle with the holidays—whether alone and feeling at a distance from the holiday intensity, or flooded by sometimes challenging family and friends. But also in the “what would you like to do with your 2018?” Here’s a simple guide to finding peace, calm and real joy in this season. H O L I D A Y Home.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Incarceration negatively affects the physical and mental health of people who are incarcerated as well as their family members and loved ones, and limits access to healthcare before, during, and after incarceration. All healthcare professionals will have patients who are directly or indirectly impacted by the carceral system.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs. and 6.1%, respectively). in 2000 to 59.8%

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Insurance companies have promised changes like these before, in 2018 and 2023, but many didn’t follow through, Dr. Mehmet Oz , head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said. Insurers must provide clearer explanations when care is denied and explain how patients can appeal.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 12, 2025

In the two years since publication of the latest American Family Physician review article on osteoporosis , new guidelines and research studies have enhanced management of this common condition. Not only is it difficult to clinically predict osteoporosis risk, fragility fractures can occur in patients without osteoporosis.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

According to a new study from the Family Heart Foundation, a research and advocacy organization, 72.2% This may be due to a lack of physician prescribing, insurance coverage and patient follow through, despite the known risk of cardiovascular disease.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 23, 2019

When not in the hospital she enjoys eating, traveling and most importantly spending quality time (her love language) with friends and family. Rebecca worked as an editorial fellow at the New England Journal of Medicine and was on the faculty at MGH before moving back to New York in 2018. Human Dx Learn more here

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PEMBlog

APRIL 22, 2025

While we pride ourselves on providing high-quality care for all children, we must acknowledge that the noisy, fast-paced, and unpredictable environment of the ED can be especially distressing for autistic patients. Encourage families to bring All About Me sheets or care cards that summarize critical accommodations. their car).

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CDOCS

MARCH 31, 2021

With the approval of both the patient as well as the practitioner, all materials would be sent back to the lab for the final fabrication& of the prosthesis.¹ & This process can be completed for both or just one arch depending on what the patient needs.&

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

During this ED visit, the family notes that the child has had 1 week of vomiting whenever he eats. The patient has had improving activity and energy since his fall and initial ED evaluation 2 weeks prior. This patient had a subsequent brain MRI that also revealed papilledema. 51,2 (2018): 126-128. 12,4 e228790.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. Goldilocks zone).

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I've bought candles for pretty much everyone in my family and I love the personalized candles and being able to customize the label to each person. ProCompression Socks Throwback pic from one of my 2018-2019 24hr call shifts I swear by Pro Compression socks! Plus they smell amazing! I use black in 0.7

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PEMBlog

JULY 17, 2023

The original post was authored by Ashley Endres in 2018. this is an updated version for July 2023 Replace a G-tube Gastrostomy tube dislodgment and malfunction are top causes for G-tube related ED visits in pediatric patients so it is important to understand how to replace a G-tube.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: American Family Cohort, a data asset including electronic health records of 8 million patients from family practices across 50 US states. Population Studied: Patients with ≥1 visit between January 2018 and December 2019 and who remained in the cohort until at least May 2020.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

On Fridays, Stephanie Johnson has a busy schedule, driving her navy-blue Jeep from one patient’s home to the next, seeing eight in all. Forget a lunch break; she often eats a sandwich or some nuts as she heads to her next patient visit. “Our patient isn’t just the older adult,” Johnson said. “Hello.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

And it not only leads to better outcomes for patients, it leads to our better sustainability. In 2018, survey data revealed that only 41% of survey adult practices had the full complement of funded core team members, which is up from 25% of 2016. For instance, a family meeting or an update or communication with families.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Alex: How is your family doing?

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Initially, it was just because there weren’t really answers for my patients.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

We all must recognize the codification of racism within our institutions and work to unlearn these hierarchies in order to better care for Black and Indigenous patients. Clinicians are able to shape the environment in which people give birth by caring for the earth and their patients. and a professor.”

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. Michele: The article was 2018, but I think Bonnie read the article more recently. Eric: How long ago was this? Alex: A few years back.

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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. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999–2018. 2021 Jan;9(1):e000374.

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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

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. Eloise, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

2018 Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews on ACP. And especially for those who may have nontraditional families. I think if you’re from a nontraditional family, it’s very important to make sure that people understand who you would want to talk to. Alex: What did it changed to after 2018? We can work it out!

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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

JUNE 29, 2023

But the other was she read an article about our hospice in the May of 2018 New York Times magazine. And back then, mostly we took care of each other in the cells and it was like a family thing. AIDs didn’t know any color or creed, so it was a family thing, we all took care of each other. Allan: 35 years. Eric: 35 years.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2023

However, as noted in our editorial published with the donanemab trial , the modest benefits of amyloid antibodies would likely not be questioned by patients, clinicians, or payers if amyloid antibodies were low risk, inexpensive, and simple to administer. The patients continued to be followed. However, they are none of these.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

That screening influences kind of further treatment, actually, probably more importantly, patient outcomes. And when I asked the patient, well, what happened, the test was sprung on them. And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. Nate 06:04 Right. And then what?

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Alex 00:08 UCSF’s Division of Palliative Medicine are looking to build on their research and clinical programs and are interviewing candidates for the associate chief of research position and for full time physician faculty to join them in the in-patient and out-patient settings. Frank, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

And then there are a number of groups that go out in vans and cars and go out into the surrounding community of Kerala to provide care for patients who are in their homes. It was wonderful for me, as a rehab doctor, to be able to see patients with spinal cord injuries and how they were living in their homes.

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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. And the guy was just so good. Erin: Mm-hmm.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Only 5% of intervention patients received the facilitator-led component of the intervention (there were other components, facilitator-led was the most engaged component). And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. I’m hearing dementia patients or patients with dementia.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

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. We want to do meaningful work and so we want to know that the conversations we have impact patient care. [laughter].

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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. Redwing: So I grew up in a pretty intellectual family, but my brother and sister were six and 10 years older than me, and they were always feeding me literature and poetry. Eric: Like since a little kid? Eric: Yeah?

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