Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

On Fridays, Stephanie Johnson has a busy schedule, driving her navy-blue Jeep from one patient’s home to the next, seeing eight in all. Forget a lunch break; she often eats a sandwich or some nuts as she heads to her next patient visit. “Our patient isn’t just the older adult,” Johnson said. “Hello.

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Nurse Practitioner Family Families Primary Care 52

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. Urging healthcare professionals to educate their patients on these topics and all related sustainability and resilience action steps. It is a public health catastrophe—and it’s claiming lives every day.

Healthcare Professional 52

Healthcare Professional Healthcare Finance Education 52

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The bill also requires the Alabama Statewide Area Health Education Center Program Office to administer and verify the eligibility of physicians claiming the credit and mandates an evaluation of the program’s success during the 2030 fiscal year.

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Insurance Hospital Management Vaccination 130

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Illness 133

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We were never going to have all the geriatricians that folks had forecast, whether it was 25,000 in 2025 or 30,000 in 2030, we were never going to get there. And he asked me questions like, “Why is this patient in bed? I didn’t meet a geriatrician, didn’t know the field even existed. Why do they have a Foley catheter?”

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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. That’s at every conversation I share, “These are the statistics, this is what’s going to happen by 2030, 2050. This is what they’re projecting.”

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Community Family Families 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. It is appropriate for all patient populations, and it is developed specifically for the palliative care and hospice populations. Why do this?

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And that’s a good thing to share with an older patient or client that making decisions about your activity. There’s good research showing that activities around environmental sustainability and conservation that’d be good to prescribe to your patients. So how are your patients going to deal with extreme heat and cold?

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Healthcare IT Education Hospital 129

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. It was in the mid-nineties, and about half of the patients that we cared for in the inpatient service were homeless.

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