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Insurers Promise to Speed Up Delays in Health Care Approvals

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

WEDNESDAY, June 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Getting approval from your insurance company before a procedure or treatment may soon get a little easier. Starting next year, if a patient switches insurance plans while getting treatment, the new plan must honor the old plan’s prior authorization for at least 90 days. Kennedy Jr.

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Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2 Show Notes by Asya Pitre April 25, 2025 Summary: In this second half of a two-part series, Dr. Tami Benton and Dr. Kevin Simon discuss racial and gender health disparities in youth suicide. Accessed 2025.

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Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist

Priority Physicians

JANUARY 20, 2025

member login CONTACT US About Us Concierge Medicine Services Our Physicians Locations Member Login Contact Us L Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist January 21, 2025 Orthopedic pain management is a guessing game. Typically, a patient wants an X-ray , pain relief, and the quickest path back to normal living.

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Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Priority Physicians

JANUARY 27, 2025

member login CONTACT US About Us Concierge Medicine Services Our Physicians Locations Member Login Contact Us L Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future January 28, 2025 Are you worried about what tomorrow may bring? Physical Effects of Anxiety Anxiety levels in Indiana are high — 32.9% You’re not alone.

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Trading One Substance for Another: Replacing Alcohol With THC

Priority Physicians

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

member login CONTACT US About Us Concierge Medicine Services Our Physicians Locations Member Login Contact Us L Trading One Substance for Another: Replacing Alcohol With THC February 4, 2025 Musical icon and recovered addict Sir Elton John recently commented on the legalization of THC, the intoxicating element in cannabis.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. Jenny reached out to us because she plays music regularly for her patients, and she said, you should do a podcast about music. And I performed for many palliative patients, and that’s when I started to understand.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity.

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. In one room the physician under study interacts with a white patient-actor, and in another room interacts with a Black patient-actor.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And then when you see clinically patients coming into hospital, they’ll have, you know, they’ll be admitted for aspiration pneumonia. And the government can do something about that?!? Lauren 18:33 Yeah. Alex 18:34 Okay. By evidence.

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Only 5% of intervention patients received the facilitator-led component of the intervention (there were other components, facilitator-led was the most engaged component). And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. I’m hearing dementia patients or patients with dementia.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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.”

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STATEMENT RELEASE: Doctors for America Condemns Inhumane Immigration Enforcement

Doctors for America

JUNE 23, 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doctors for America PO Box: 21161 2300 18th St NW Lbby Washington, DC 20009-9996 June 23, 2025 Doctors for America Condemns Inhumane Immigration Enforcement WASHINGTON, D.C. These raids, detentions, and family separations are both morally reprehensible and public health catastrophes.

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

A podcast producer and director emeritus of WOUB Public Media zeroed in on our article about restless doctors, sharing his thoughts on X: This must be Trump and Kennedy’s idiotic plan to make American Healthy Again… [link] — Tom Hodson (@thodson) May 29, 2025 — Tom Hodson, Athens, Ohio Oh, Canada Welcomes American Doctors! Kennedy Jr.’s

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Insurers Promise to Speed Up Delays in Health Care Approvals

Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

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STATEMENT RELEASE: Doctors for America Condemns Inhumane Immigration Enforcement

Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

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