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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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. S&G Labs has no contractual relationships with the entities that referred clients to S&G Labs.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. S&G Labs has no contractual relationships with the entities that referred clients to S&G Labs.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

From new initiatives to facilitate faster reviews for new indications under the Split Real Time Application Review (STAR) pilot program, to bringing new meetings under PDUFA goals, to continued support for rare diseases and incorporation of the patient voice, the goals letter revealed a good number of welcome announcements.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

Characterized by cynicism, exhaustion, and reduced job satisfaction, physician burnout can lead to devastating personal and professional consequences, including strained relationships, substance abuse, early retirement, and even suicide. Wendy Dean and Simon Talbot with their landmark 2018 article, Physicians aren’t ‘burning out.’

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. They were stunned by the number of calls for lift assistance for older adults who had fallen. There were trip hazards, loose carpets, some people were hoarders. Their job was done. Alex: That is true.

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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? But does the geriatric assessment do anything?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Show me your scars.” Scars, really? I’ve been there. You probably have too. On the one hand, I don’t think interprofessional teamwork needs to be scarring. On the other hand, though it goes against my middle-child “can’t we all get along” nature, disagreement is a key aspect of high functioning teams. Alex 02:38 Love it.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Eric: For those of you don’t know, Emmy was on our podcast back in 2018 … man, pre-COVID times. Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. But I believe before we start, somebody has a song request for Alex. Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is. Eric: What’s the song?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Identify ways to navigate clinical interactions with patients while respecting them and affirming their experiences with food and fatness. All of this contributes to various mental health challenges that are consistent with surveillance in not only a wider police-state but also the patient-physician relationship.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

One example that is presented involves the complicated relationship between the United States and Chinese immigrants and farmworkers in California. Dr. Isom first challenges our listeners to engage with anti-racist praxis and challenge dominant racial narratives about substance use, policing, and other encounters.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Social pain and loneliness. Community-based palliative care networks . Raj’s reflections on the state of palliative care in the US. Transcript.

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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. If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! Think chemotherapy to imminently dying patients, or CPR.

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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. However, they are none of these. Dementia Matters. Dementia Matters. Nate, is it you?

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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.” 2020;47(1):3-7.

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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. Sit down and draw each other for only one minute.

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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. He taught us a little about the different flowers and plants, and along the way a little about why he does what he does. One story that Allan told perfectly sums this up. We have pictures of this online on our GeriPal website.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

If the studies have different time frames, different patient populations, different dosing regimens and the like, you can’t just combine the numbers and average them. It need not be a 1:1 relationship, but it does need to reasonably compare. Companies can’t just average information from different studies. When in doubt, leave it out.

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Tiny Physician

MARCH 30, 2022

Archana Sharma committed suicide because of the harassment by the bystanders of the patient who died at her hospital. However, she found herself in trouble when one of her patients, whom she treated at her hospital, died due to postpartum hemorrhage (bleeding from the birth canal after delivery). link] What is postpartum hemorrhage?

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Having Your Own Long-Term GP Can Save Your Life Patients who choose a GP rather than a specialist as their primary care provider have a 19% 8 lower mortality and produce 22% 9 -33% 8 lower healthcare spending. million people in 2018), shows that the longer you know your GP, the better off you are. Here are the key results.

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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). Was there really a causal connection between the intervention, new advance directives, and higher rates of potentially burdensome interventions? Jasmine, is it you?

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry holds us in that liminal space so many of our patients are in. The impossiblity which is life, which is everything, and death, which is the end of life. As Mary Oliver tells us In Blackwater Woods , and I’m paraphrasing here, we must to hold it to our bones, knowing our lives depend on it, and when the time comes, to let it go.

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