Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Most sore throats heal on their own, but severe cases may require urgent care. Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. These symptoms require immediate medical attention.

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ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment 52

The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In medicine, it is commonly agreed that ‘to err is human’ Most healthcare professionals would agree that humans make mistakes. A study by Johns Hopkins in 2016 found that medical errors may potentially be the third leading cause of death nationwide. So yes, humans make mistakes.

Finance 52

Finance Education Individual Healthcare Professional 52

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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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

The outlook on amyloid antibodies are looking brighter though in 2023. Someone is 90 mild stage dementia, but they’re only impaired in their managing of a checkbook, that person still could receive this medication. I want you to stop my AFib medication, my anticoagulation and start me on this drug. Eric: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

[link] Promising Practice Recognition PEACH was named a Promising Practice in equity-oriented palliative care as part of a national initiative funded by Health Canada, operated by Healthcare Excellence Canada & the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer. So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. Bill, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

In the United States in 2023, the truth of the matter is you don’t need very many individual risk factors to become homeless. What medical intervention saves health dollars, costs less than not doing it? But nothing in healthcare. Eric: Maybe permanent supportive housing doesn’t actually- Margot: Save health dollars.

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Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We had, since the late seventies, a home-based primary care program. 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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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115

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. Alex: We are delighted to welcome Joe Rotella, who’s the Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. So now that the emergency response has ended, what’s to be done?

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73