Common Sense Family Doctor
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
A 2024 analysis projected that by 2040 a shortage of 58,000 primary care clinicians (including nurse practitioners and physician assistants) will occur. Since 2020, the starting ages for breast, lung, and colorectal cancer screening were lowered to 40, 50, and 45 years, respectively. hours) allocated to preventive care.
GeriPal
JANUARY 12, 2023
And ACE units in general take a typical multidisciplinary hospital unit that has all the different team members, so doctors, nurses, social workers, dieticians, pharmacists, chaplains, patient care technicians, others I’m leaving out. Which patients are eligible to go to an ACE unit? What are the benefits of an ACE unit? Alex: Yeah.
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Physician's Weekly
JUNE 19, 2025
On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health. ” Nurse practitioners are having those conversations more and more as their patient base trends older. . “Hello.
GeriPal
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
A 2020 RCT of coaching for primary care physicians shows that coaching improves burnout well-being during the intervention and has a sustained duration at 6 months of follow up. Summary Transcript Summary Coaching is in. When I was a junior faculty, coaching wasn’t a thing. We address: What is coaching? How does it differ from therapy?
GeriPal
JUNE 8, 2023
We debate the merits of use of CGM in the nursing home and other late life settings (Eric and I argue against CGM and lose). AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) Listen in to learn more! Eric: And Alex, we’ve got a full house today. Alex Smith: We have a full house.
GeriPal
JANUARY 30, 2025
Alex 01:43 And we have Simone Rinaldi, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and director of nursing for the MGH Division of Palliative Care and Geriat ric medicine. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out! Who will emerge victorious? Vicki 02:10 Thank you.
GeriPal
JANUARY 25, 2024
Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. Is it you Lyndsay?
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