GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes. Patients received brochures detailing the risks of gabapentinoids, nonpharmacologic alternatives, and a proposed deprescribing regimen (see here for the brochure ).

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Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 120

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests George Kuchel & Alison Huang have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. I don’t see those perspectives as incompatible. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 121

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

He died in 2024. So I think the first reason that we saw and felt the opportunity was ripe for updating was that some of us had come across some anecdotal examples of patients expressing some offense to that terminology. And I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 110

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Why would CBT work for neuropathic pain and diabetes differently than it would work for neuropathic pain and cancer? AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Why would that be?

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. He’s chair of the department of Palliative Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer center. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And I think that’s something that we can really focus on, especially with geriatric patients.

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