Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 6, 2025

The state’s Department of Labor projects that healthcare practitioners and healthcare support occupations will see greater employment through 2030, particularly in chronic care and family medicine. Nurses: Nurses work as part of a team to provide care and support, and educate patients about health conditions.

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Healthcare Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Professional Education 52

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. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice?

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Families 73

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. But the patient would say, well, but it still hurts, though.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

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. This means: Direct influence: Training healthcare professionals to understand and manage the growing connections between environment and illness. These deaths will not be evenly distributed.

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Healthcare Professional Healthcare Finance Education 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But if we have this disconnect, we have to be able to recognize it, recognize that this is important for patients and families. Alex: So potentially really splitting out the before death and the after death components when we’re talking about what’s important to people who are facing serious illness. Alex: Yeah.

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Community Families Family IT 128

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. So the palliative performance scale, or PPS, is essentially a tool to help clinicians with prognostication for seriously ill or palliative care populations.

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