Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

Many healthcare facilities in the U.S. are already struggling with staffing shortages , but others have turned to healthcare staffing agencies like Barton Associates to fill in the gaps. Reducing Burnout Among Permanent Staff Did you know that nearly half of physicians (45.2%) reported at least one symptom of burnout in 2023?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

Dr. Benton mentors clinical and research physicians, fellows, and postdoctoral trainees. 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. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

We must transform healthcare into a frontline responder for climate resilience. This means: Direct influence: Training healthcare professionals to understand and manage the growing connections between environment and illness. Because sustainable healthcare isn’t optional—it’s essential. Adaptation Gap Report (2023).

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The systematic review of peer-reviewed intervention was published from 2018 to 2023. An Outside Expert Shares Her Perspective Nadine Harris, MD , who was not involved in the study, spoke with Physician’s Weekly ( PW ) about the results and ways to provide optimal care to Black women with HIV.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

I, for example, had one patient, I remember during my fellowship, I was in geriatrics clinic and had a very well read patient who came in and was reading a New York Times article, I think in the well section at one point. But you worry that the advance directive does not provide enough guidance for the specific decision at Yael Jo, do you.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hot off the press is a brand spanking new updated 2023 AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Todd Semla, who is a clinical pharmacist and associate professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Houck — In August 2023 the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recommended that the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) reschedule marijuana from schedule I under the federal Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) to schedule III. By Larry K.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 5, 2024

29, 2023). FDA/HHS Analysis, 2023 FDA/HHS last conducted an eight-factor analysis of marijuana in 2016 and concluded that marijuana continued to meet schedule I criteria. Unlike its 2016 analysis, FDA’s/HHS’ 2023 analysis considers marijuana to have a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the U.S. Letter to U.S.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

JAMA IM 2023 A shout-out to my NPR episode on 1A titled the “State of Hospice Care” DISCLAIMER While we filmed in Montreal during the Annual Assembly, all opinions expressed in this podcast are independent of AAHPM and HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. She happened to focus on some specific for-profit hospice providers. JAMA Health Forum.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve covered psychedelics on the podcast beforefirst in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine , and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theora Cimino, focusing on the reasons to approach psychedelic use in patients with caution. James 00:32 Good afternoon.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So a couple weeks after it was published, I took a trip to a medical school in the western part of the country and I was visiting to think about their geriatrics research program, and they had a geriatrics evaluation clinic. And I met with the clinical pharmacist who worked in that clinic and she told me, “You know what?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

Praised by the FDA, Alzheimer’s Association (AA), and Pharma as a “game changer”, but derided by others for the drug’s lack of clinical efficacy, risk of severe adverse effects, absence of diversity in trial populations, high costs, and an FDA approval process that was in the kindest words “rife with irregularities”. That was an FDA decision.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Amber tells the moving story of how these findings led a clinical colleague, her chief, to question and change his behavior. Alex: We are delighted to welcome Amber Barnato, who’s a palliative care physician and health service researcher, and she’s director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. She softened to her suffering, and she trusted me enough to have a moment, that she could look into that and see that, yes, she had her clinical judgment, which was fine, but also that there was another processes going on, which was her own suffering. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

The Attorney General also released DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) opinions providing the rationale and support for the NPRM. 29, 2023) (“Basis”); NPRM at 44,603. In 2023, HHS conducted a different approach, a two-part test, to determine whether marijuana has a CAMU. 44,597 (May 21, 2024). Basis at 24. NPRM at 44,607.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

For an ever deeper dive into the subject of negotiation and dispute resolution, check out the following links (and for any caregivers interested in participating in the randomized clinical trial of the NegotiAge training, feel free email the NegotiAge Research Team at negotiage@northwestern.edu ): . Alaine: Yeah. Eric: Yeah. Alaine: Yeah.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

This question, while providing an opportunity to talk about direct and indirect experiences, can be asked of all patients, and opens the door to conversations about anti-semitism, islamophobia, or anti-Black racism. Really, across the board, there was a spike, and it seemed to have, seems to have come down from 2022 to 2023.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Randy died February 26, 2023. And I think that his research was informed by his clinical practice, his clinical practice was informed by his research. And if I remember that study correctly, it was priming both patients and providers in the outpatient setting to do goals of care conversations. Erin: Mm-hmm. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

I would talk about this, except I was a clinician, and I’m seeing these folks in the hospital and in clinic. The journal section’s requirements are the same as for a clinical investigation. In the United States in 2023, the truth of the matter is you don’t need very many individual risk factors to become homeless.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s focused on older adults who are too frail to get into clinic. And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. We relied on our clinical experience as geriatricians, that home-based primary care experience.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 1, 2025

Senator Durbins letter references a January 2023 study from the Journal of the American Medical Association, which found that more than two-thirds of drugs advertised on television were considered to have low therapeutic value. Maximizing patient clinical outcomes and quality of life may ultimately minimize healthcare resource utilization.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

See the AAHPM Legislative Action Center [link] Write to the DEA, with guidance from AAHPM’s comments to the DEA March 2023. What was life for you as a provider pre-pandemic? And so we’re able to provide access to those patients that may be home-bound or home limited or have a lot of struggles to get in. Stories trump data.

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Farah provides clear examples from the Biden administration, in which having the most diverse cabinet in history was critical to building bridges, empathy, and inspiring others to feel included. I think it was the 2023 World Series where Dusty Baker faced off as the manager of the Houston Astros against David Roberts. Well played.

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