The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

There are now nearly 300 cryogenically frozen individuals in the US, another 50 in Russia , and a few thousand prospective candidates signed up. Wake me up when cryosleep ends The trouble with cryogenics and cryosleep is pure physics: our cells are filled with water. No matter what, some people are still hopeful.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So there’s this, what is suffering to the individual, and is there some threshold that we could say, “This is real suffering,” or “This is the suffering we talk about in geriatrics or palliative care”? Naomi, your thoughts on this?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And I love the podcast that we did because it really highlights… We pride ourselves in palliative care, and focusing on physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. We’re willing to spend $50,000 a year for individuals for their expensive pharmacy medication. We shouldn’t be mandating individuals, this should be an optional thing for individuals. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. How you actually physically started doing this and built up so many followers over time and why are you doing it? And so I think we feel like we’re a community of practice almost, not just individuals trying to rack up the viewers and things. Alex: Matt?

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. As this patient has an x percent mortality in three months, there’s a little more nuance to it, and it isn’t really applied to the individual. When the lymphedema therapy, it’s a type of physical therapy where they do wraps and they go.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So it started off for individuals with a terminal illness. They could have a prognosis of years, or decades. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area. Did it have any impact?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. It’s not just about physical symptom management. And that’s where a lot of hospice referrals happen for these individuals when they’re really declining and they get discharged with, with hospice. It’s about coping.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Rescheduling increases the ability to research cannabis to determine the physical and mental impacts of cannabis use. Letter 3: Top Ten Reasons for Descheduling Cannabis Altogether From: Democratic Senators Date: January 29, 2024 Twelve Democratic senators signed Letter 3. January 29, 2024).

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. That just leads to issues that can make home care very difficult for these individuals. Eric 05:50 Yeah.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 106

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And interesting enough, this is a really fascinating study that just got published in JAMA I M in December of 2024. And is it at all individualized to the patient? Danny 12:07 I don’t know how individualized it is. Alex 03:54 Very generous. Eric 03:57 Okay, we got a lot to talk about. It’s a lot. Yeah, yeah.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. So if you can share this early, January 30th, 2024, you can apply as two things, as an established program like us, UCLA, UCSF, or a new program. This is Eric Widera.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The patients that, I think, most benefited from it were those individuals who, as I said, maybe, had a pneumonia, and needed IV antibiotics, but wanted to do that… If they could get better in the comfort of their own homes, that were not interested in passing away in the hospital. It takes a bit to get these things up and going.

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