Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Robin Wolaner, 71, a retired publisher in Sausalito, California, has been known to badger friends who delay getting recommended shots, sending them relevant medical studies. “Season in and season out,” Schaffner said, “it produces outbreaks of serious respiratory illness that rivals influenza.”

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And the classic case that we often hear of is the poor old person who got a whole lot of medical treatment they wouldn’t have wanted an ICU flog.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And he’s also chaired the California Pacific Medical Center’s ethics committee since 1985. Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. Bill, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Bill 00:53 Thank you, Alex. Would that really happen nowadays? It happened to my mother.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 23, 2025

Wood, director of Northeastern Universitys Extreme Medicine Certificate Program, says its important for people to recognize the signs of heat illness and how quickly heat exhaustion can progress to heat stroke, when immersion in cold water is necessary to save lives. Heat stroke is the most serious heat illness, Wood says.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Annals of Int Med.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Or, to phrase the question for 2024, Can AI do better? Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? Can we do better?

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