Sound Physicians

OCTOBER 30, 2024

I was born and raised in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, before immigrating to Toronto with my family. It was my father’s dream to have a child become a physician, and his support motivated me to pursue medicine. We understand each other’s personal and family situations, so if a need arises, we can handle it accordingly.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 10, 2025

BowFlex filed for bankruptcy in March 2024. But the CPSC says the adjustable design may pose a safety hazard. The recalled units include 3.7 million sets sold by Nautilus Inc., which changed its name to BowFlex in 2023, CBS News reported.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

In 2024, the NIH funded six short-term research projects totaling over $1 million. These funds would be a lifeline for many families who are still grappling with health concerns and some economic hardship,” she said. The new funding will take a more in-depth look at possible long-term impacts.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. He died in 2024. So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples. Is that fair?

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

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. How, though, do we navigate anxiety and help our patients who may end up in the anxiety spiral that becomes so hard to get out of?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. As the caregiver or as a family member of the patient? ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. And it was very clear, and she could now no longer recognize her family members. And the family says, dad would never want to live like this.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And so we know that the decision to enter a nursing home is incredibly challenging for families, especially because it often comes with thoughts that they’re, like, abandoning their loved one, really. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

This podcast was initially sparked by Josh’s “Note From a Family Meeting” Substack post titled “ Ambivalence in Clinical Decision-Making ,” which discussed Bryanna’s and Jenny’s 2022 article titled “ Two Minds, One Patient: Clearing up Confusion About Ambivalence.” ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. It’s all stemmed from a post that Josh wrote, I’ll caught from his Substack Notes from a Family Meeting. Alex: Great choice.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Anna Pleet is an internal medicine resident at Allegheny Health Network who has a collection of amazing YouTube videos on aging and the Mediterranean diet. Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. So I lived with a family there. Great to be here.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

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. I’m hearing family and caregivers. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

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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.” Malaz: I love it.

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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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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 27, 2025

. “We are facing the collision of two policies here that could further erode staffing in nursing homes and present health outcome challenges,” said Eric Roberts , an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Conteh said taking care of elders is embedded in the culture of African families.

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