Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

It’s “going to streamline it in some incremental ways only,” Dr. Adam Gaffney , a critical care doctor and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, told NBC News. Officials are also working to improve access to physical therapy, diagnostic imaging and outpatient surgery. Still, some experts remain skeptical.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. It was amazing. Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

It’s like a third of people need chemical or physical restraints to keep that in. In fact, the Right to Try act signed into law in 2018, allows patients with life threatening illness to access investigational drugs. They’re not Gonna be moved to the dining room. They may have increased risk for pressure ulcers.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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