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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

The Health Resources and Services Administration projects a 50% increase in demand for geriatricians from 2018 to 2030, when the entire baby boom generation will be older than 65. Johnson and her husband, Dustin, operate an NP-led private practice in greater Seattle, Washington, a state where she can practice independently.

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FDA’s Accelerated Approval of Biogen’s Aduhelm for Alzheimer’s: A Sign of Applying the Emergency Use Standard Beyond COVID?

FDA Law Blog

This sentence was included in the 2016 approval of Exondys 51 for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the 2018 approval of Andexxa for reversal of anticoagulation therapy.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Eric: For those of you don’t know, Emmy was on our podcast back in 2018 … man, pre-COVID times. So that’s a piece that I think is important for providers anywhere along that process to be asking about driving. And the primary care provider had assumed he was no longer driving, I think. Emmy: Generally not.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

Isn’t it weird that now we’re labeling the majority of doctors with burnout in 2018? I’m just actually providing really good primary health care. So my goal today is to share the wisdom that I have from 25 years as a doctor and 13 years in private practice in an ideal clinic. Does that make any sense at all?

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