Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 6, 2025

is now 60 or older, leading to a greater need for healthcare professionals. To meet this need, local initiatives like CT Health Horizons are working to train professionals and improve care in the region. Administrative and support staff: Admin staff ensure healthcare facilities run smoothly.

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My Green Doctor

JULY 2, 2025

According to the World Health Organization, climate change will cause an additional 250,000 deaths every year worldwide between 2030 and 2050. Without closing this gap, healthcare systems everywhere will struggle to meet rising demands, especially in vulnerable communities where climate change is accelerating inequality and suffering.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. What are the risks and rewards of new classes of medications? When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. How high is too high?

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My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

According to the World Health Organization, climate change will cause an additional 250,000 deaths every year between 2030 and 2050. We must transform healthcare into a frontline responder for climate resilience. Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on European Healthcare (2025). Link NRDC/Medical Society Consortium.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary I always find cachexia in serious illness puzzling. In today’s podcast, we had the opportunity to learn from a renowned expert in palliative care, Eduardo Bruera, about cachexia and anorexia in serious illness. It’s just that they look like a big bmI, but they lost 15, 2030 pounds.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

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