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988 Contacted More Than 16 Million Times From Its Launch to December 2024

Physician's Weekly

31, 2024, 988 was contacted 16,333,707 times nationally, with 11.0 per 1,000 is less than half that of the rate of adult emergency department visits that include a mental health diagnosis (53.0 per 1,000 is less than half that of the rate of adult emergency department visits that include a mental health diagnosis (53.0

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Alex 00:30 And we’re delighted to welcome Alison Huang, who’s a primary care doc and researcher and professor of medicine, urology, and epi-biostats at UCSF in the division of General Internal Medicine. I’m an internal medicine physician.

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. If they’ve said they had a traumatic experience receiving a diagnosis. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

Just got the diagnosis based on blood tests of amyloid. Then just got the diagnosis. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. So I think that you can start going back further and further. You know, what about stage five? What about stage four?

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Alex 03:54 Very generous. Eric 03:57 Okay, we got a lot to talk about.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric 44:46 That’s also why I like, you know, talking with surgeons, too, because, like internal medicine doctors, we often like just to give a bunch of options, and then we get really upset if they choose the one that we think is really bad for them.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. So if you are established program, the starting point is July 30th, 2024.