Physician's Weekly

JUNE 14, 2025

The following is a summary of “Bridging Gaps in LDL-C Management: Utilization of Lipid-Lowering Therapies, Gender Disparities, and the Impact of Cardiology Visits on Secondary Prevention,” published in the June 2025 issue of American Journal Cardiology of by Sedrakyan et al.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. 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. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

In 2024, 77% of eligible ABIM Board Certified endocrinologists who chose an assessment opted for the LKA over the traditional, 10-year MOC exam. Special Consideration IMG Pilot Pathway* In August 2024 , the ABIM Council proposed a pilot model for exceptionally qualified IMGs pursuing accredited subspecialty fellowship in the U.S.

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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. Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. While everyone says we should be doing this to the best science available, every hospital has a different interpretation of that.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

He died in 2024. And so there’s complexity in Understanding how each state manages this. So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples. So on the clinical side, people are really focused on how long do they have to be on the ventilator and managing that.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose.

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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. Panelists Kate Courtright and Scott Halpern have no relationships to disclose. and consulting for Papa Health.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So if one of my patients gets admitted, I also see them on the inpatient side of our hospital.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. It’s the relationships to the world. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Alex 00:26 And we’re delayed to welcome Amanda Moment, who is a palliative care social worker at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Like, how do we help ourselves maintain psychological integrity in the face of the stressors that we have to manage? Dani, welcome back to GeriPal. Dani 00:25 Excited to be back.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

JAGS 2024 Nursing Home Palliative Care Referral Process, Barriers, and Proposed Solutions: A Qualitative Study. And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t. Pain management wouldn’t come to the facility, and she was bedbound. So basic pain management goals of care conversations.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eduardo 07:17 Well, we had a palliative care unit in another hospital that was 510 minutes away. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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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 studies are important. This is Eric Widera.

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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. You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). Panelists Bill Gardner, Sonu Gaind, Leonie Herx have stated they have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I don’t manage anybody, but I get to sit in on some leadership meetings and make my voice heard. We were often the only ones left in the hospital. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Jane Thomas, Naomi Saks, and Ishwaria Subbiah have no relationships to disclose. We went into the rooms.

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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. Eric 23:45 Yeah, I love that, too, because I think that one for me really is, can our interventions need to target the patient population that we’re managing? Jennifer 00:44 Thanks.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric 07:03 And those classic studies, were those done in the hospital and PALP care units and clinic?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Knowing I was interested in neurology and had opportunities to observe brain death determination in the hospital. So in the case of Jahi McMath, you were talking about, you know, her family was kicked out of the hospital. We do have, like, a relatively operable consensus around this where, you know, it’s working in the hospitals.

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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. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson have no relationships to disclose. Alex 03:54 Very generous.

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