2024 Healthcare Professional Hospital Utilities 
The Motivated MD
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
For the better half of 2024, I have been periodically writing posts that are individual articles that double as potential chapters to a future book. In medicine, it is commonly agreed that ‘to err is human’ Most healthcare professionals would agree that humans make mistakes. So yes, humans make mistakes.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So it’s just a wide-opening lens that most of us never really get to see if we’re on the hospital-based side. But what was really interesting is the transport to the hospital was actually going down in their system. Eric: Yeah, that is amazing.
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GeriPal
JANUARY 25, 2024
You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. David: Yeah, yeah, I agree.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.
GeriPal
JUNE 5, 2025
JAGS 2024 Nursing Home Palliative Care Referral Process, Barriers, and Proposed Solutions: A Qualitative Study. And so they’re in there for a very short time, couple weeks, get a little bit stronger and transition home after a hospitalization. Like, yeah, utilization of hospice has increased pretty well.
GeriPal
APRIL 6, 2023
On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system.
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. Jennifer 00:44 Thanks.
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