The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

She was awarded the Society of Biological Psychiatry Humanitarian Award and the Community Outreach Award by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Clinically, he cares for youth and families through the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the new Division of Addiction Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital.

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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. The ways to remedy the negative impacts of incarceration are to incarcerate fewer people and to invest in communities.

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Reflections of a Grady Doctor

JUNE 26, 2021

I got promoted to full professor in 2019. But let me share another reason why I was so pumped about it: Did you know that, as of 2019, there were 38,975 individuals who've achieved the rank of full professor at US medical schools? I mean, fortunately, my family has been okay from a health perspective. You read that right.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Family physicians are central to managing the medical needs of older adults. Some family physicians pursue additional training to become certified as having additional competence in ‘Care of the Elderly’ and/or apply for "focused practice" status to care for older patients.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Understand how engaged community-based work, centered on trust and accountability, has supported the health of communities served by Oakland, CA’s Asian Health Service. provision in only English +/- Spanish), limitations of medical technology (i.e., Insufficient language services (i.e.,

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

7 The same degree of focus has not been paid to misuse of other prescription medications which also have high abuse potential among youth, including medications such as prescription stimulants, tranquilizers, and sedatives. misuse of prescription medications). 2 Opioids contribute a large share of this overdose crisis.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

In our prior podcast with Ira Byock on psychedelics in 2019 we talked primarily about the potential of psychedelics. Psychedelics have been used by communities around the globe for hundreds of years (or more). The efficacy of psychedelics without therapy, and the impact of variations in therapy type, training, duration, is unknown.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Pearls On the importance of considering place based inequities Variability of health inequities between communities in a single city or across different cities is critical to consider when discussing health inequity. “ Association of Social and Economic Inequality With Coronavirus Disease 2019 Incidence and Mortality Across US Counties.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Alex: Today we’re delighted to welcome Jerry Gurwitz, who is a geriatrician and professor of medicine at the UMass Chan Medical School. I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. We’ll talk about is it in medical practice yet? It came after engaging her.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults. It’s not a controlled substance medication. Eric: So I heard gabapentin is the 10th most commonly prescribed medication in the US. In psychiatry, a lot of the anti-epileptic medications, we call them mood stabilizers and are used in bipolar disorder.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. I’ve been running a medical storytelling program called the Nocturnus.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices. In fact, as Lauren Hunt found , the average likelihood that a person will be disenrolled from one hospice vs. another is two. AlexSmithMD.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In 1998, a Letter to the Editor in American Family Physician expressed concerns about the relatively new practice of pharmaceutical advertising directly to patients. Kennedy, Jr.’s s previously stated intention to ban DTCA from television.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. So initially hospice grew as a non-profit, charity based, community based organization. JAMA Health Forum.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Kit Carney and Dr. Kristen Humphrey discuss gun violence, its impact on our patients and their families, as well as practical tips on advocating for safe storage of firearms, and how we can support victims of violence. When we protect our kids from the dangers of gun violence, the whole community stands to benefit. 10.1542/peds.2012-2481

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By John Scott Frazer, Glenn Ross Frazer Reference : Frazer JS , Frazer GR, Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e001143.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2023

A lot of compounding trauma occurs at the border that has potential downstream mental health implications for individuals and their families. Many organizations, such as the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, recommend against documenting immigration status in medical records.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary I read Farah Stockmans article in the NYT on why attacks on DEI will cost us all , and thought, Yes, and everyone includes harm to our healthcare workforce, our patients, and their families. The entire White community was getting affirmative action. And there was a brown family.

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