Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. These symptoms require immediate medical attention. This is a medical emergency where you should call 911.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Yael 02:12 Thank you. I’m excited.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Alex: Today we’re delighted to welcome Jerry Gurwitz, who is a geriatrician and professor of medicine at the UMass Chan Medical School. I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

Annie 02:31 So if you go to the A G S meeting every year, you know that this group of three individuals comprises the AGS literature update. Nancy 03:05 And just not to do any sort of spoiler alert here, but 2025 is their last time doing this session at AGS. You have to see about 2025 whenever that comes up, but we’ll see maybe.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome S a ch Kale, who is a palliative care doc at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. But my medical training kicked in. For those individuals, how do you think about that? Or they might, you know, they might sell their medication, which this population is also prone to.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

So most of our medical schools have simulation centers. I think the first time I noticed it was, like as a medical student when you would rotate on one service with one attending and they would make decisions about how to treat a case one way. And your job is to say, “Okay, what’s medically achievable?

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

And so this term was developed by our group to capture either non traditional therapies or really conventional medical therapies that patients may be pursuing with little hope of reaching a goal of care and significant risk. Eric 06:58 It could be CPR in an individual with metastatic cancer in the icu. Did I say that correctly?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

So I think the examples that we’ve seen is an individual will all of a sudden start using humor in a particular way or will using wry humor and that is reminiscent of the kind of humor the person used prior to developing dementia. Did you have a different medication? And Andrea, you can help me out here. And the Clin.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? You’d have to tailor it to each individual emergency department because you couldn’t. Do we know these individual things really work in big randomized control? That’s not news to us.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. The black individuals wanted to have a separate one from the white individuals. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2025.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Disruptive events are medical, surgical. And hospitalization for pneumonia is like a medical event. Those are all things that could dramatically be a major health shock for an individual. And maybe we’ll turn now from these medical and surgical events to start talking about social events. Any other social events?

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. And is it at all individualized to the patient? It’s a lot. Yeah, yeah.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: … you’re getting paid for individual encounters, not going to people’s homes, not being paid for all of the additional support that’s needed for comprehensive cancer care. But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side. And they can start July of 2025. Malaz: Correct. Purely architected.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Alex 00:23 And we’re delighted to welcome Peter Chin-Hong, who is an infectious disease physician and medical educator, professor at UCSF and associate dean for regional campuses. And then, of course, other treatments and other sort of medications and such came out. Year four, year four of COVID What are you hoping in 2025, Lona?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

You can donate tax deductible donations to GeriPal so we can continue to produce t hese podcasts in 2025. We are delighted to welcome back returning guest Jenny Blumenthal-Barb y , who’s a philosopher and bioethicist and associate director of the center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Baylor College of Medicine.

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