Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

These are the moments when you don’t have time to wait for an appointment with your primary care doctor, and the emergency room (ER) seems like overkill. In this article, I’ll walk you through why urgent care could be your best option when time is of the essence. Life happens fast, and sometimes, so do medical issues.

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 18, 2025

Clinical use is already accepted, new FDA approvals and new trials are underway targeting new niches, like pediatric surgeries. They have started a large-scale clinical trial involving 10,000 patients, expected to last two years, with plans to obtain CE marking by the end of 2024. Since then, the concept has become a reality.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

Reynolds Blog Article Innovative medical practices thrive by embracing change, prioritizing patient care and learning from setbacks to enhance success and satisfaction. Did they have to wait long to obtain an appointment? or less) on an appointment card. " For example, would you wait three or more weeks for an appointment?

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 24, 2025

Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini Blog Article Thoughtful design in medical practices enhance patient experience, boost staff productivity, and improve online reviews without major renovations. Likewise, flow-oriented layouts have been linked to higher staff productivity and fewer late appointments. Singer, M.D. Singer, M.D.,

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. Eric 15:32 Could do this in clinical practice. Connie 14:57 Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? Lastly, I also just want to give a shout out to the last article above which also includes this lovely checklist of methods to address hearing loss in clinical encounters. I’m guessing not.

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CDOCS

APRIL 14, 2021

Michael Snider<br /> Sponsored by 3M</em></p> <p>& </p> <p><span style="font-size:14px;">As I was sitting down yesterday to begin a standard appointment for a single unit restoration, I was struck by how far we have come in such a short time.&

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore what makes primary care essential, how it differs from other types of care, and what you should look for when choosing the best primary care provider in Michigan. Choosing the Best Primary Care Provider in Michigan Inquiring about the clinic for primary care in Michigan.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

We discuss our favorite articles, parody songs, and memories from AGS meetings past, with a little preview of a song for this years meeting. We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. And then I got to choose the first article.

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Tiny Physician

DECEMBER 11, 2021

The PG doctors strike has entered its 12th day at the time of publishing this article and it has badly affected the patient care at the Government Medical Colleges (GMCs). If you feel that the resident doctors (PG doctors) are at fault for this mess, then please go through the whole article to completely understand the problem.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. David: Similarly informed by my clinical experience, really, actually, beginning in residency when I took care of a lot of sick folks in the hospital, particularly those with cancer and heart and lung diseases like these. Eric: How about you, David?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Find out on this weeks podcast where we invite Joseph Greer, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson to talk about their recent JAMA article on Telehealth vs In-Person Early Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer – A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial. So no differences between the modalities.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On today today’s podcast, we are joined by guest host and UCSF geriatrician Ashwin Kotwal as we welcome Dr. Tisamarie Sherry (Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy (BHDAP) , appointed by the Biden administration). Eric: So we got a pretty exciting topic today.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I love this series of articles because each presents a component of a practical, patient-centered approach to patient-surgeon communication and decision making, and language surgeons (and surgical trainees) can start using in their next patient visit. Alexis, welcome to GeriPal. Alexis: Thanks for having me.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So let’s just say you have a healthy 55 year old or 65 year old in your clinic. So whether it’s 50, 52, 55, 65, we should ask every person who comes into clinic at least once a year, how do you feel like your thinking is? So I’m in a specialty clinic, so I’m in this interdisciplinary memory assessment clinic.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). What do they do?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

I, for example, had one patient, I remember during my fellowship, I was in geriatrics clinic and had a very well read patient who came in and was reading a New York Times article, I think in the well section at one point. Alex 16:45 That really rings true with my clinical experience. And I know I do primarily inpatient work.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Is it that they’re clinically depressed or that they’re understandably sad at the situation that they’re in or specific issues? So there is this meaningful difference between appropriate reactions to illness and clinically significant symptoms of mental health problems. It’s high, it’s too high.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In case you miss the introductions at the start of the podcast, Bernie and Laurie are married, and offer wonderful reminiscence of their clinical practice over the last several decades. You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Alex: And joining us via Zoom, we have Charlotta Lindvall, who is a palliative care physician researcher who studies the intersection of natural language processing and communication data at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, where she also works in clinical informatics. Five minute appointments. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Charlotta.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Start by reading this article by Sean Morrison, Diane Meier, and Bob Arnold in JAMA , and this response from Rebecca Sudore, Susan Hickman, and Anne Walling. So I do think it often does happen that younger adults appoint a surrogate when they engage in estate planning, for example. It created a lot of challenges.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Here are some more resources we’ve discussed in the podcast Dani’s NEJM article on coping: “ Should I Laugh at That? Somebody shouts at my front Desk staff because they’re pissed off about their appointment time. The clinical trials and the this and that. Because like Amanda said, everything we see is coping. Everything.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

What are your thoughts about using humor to convey ideas, thoughts, clinical work? Occasionally, people will come to me and say, like when I’m meeting them in the clinic and say, “Hey, we Googled you. ” And I thankfully haven’t had anybody decline an appointment or something that I knew of because I did this.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

On average, twice as many patients have contact with GPs than with all specialists (in offices and/or outpatient clinics) combined. Because chronic diseases are largely managed in primary care and are therefore the GPs’ daily business: Patients with multimorbidity account for 78% of GP appointments (based on 100,000 UK patients).

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So you, Jennifer, probably have, like, the most cited, probably should be the most cited randomized controlled trial of palliative care and lung cancer patients that everybody, every palliative care article I’ve seen, whether or not it works, always includes, it was outpatient palliative care in lung cancer patients. All of this is.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Because I remember there was an article maybe six months ago in JAGS, maybe it was longer than that, everybody was talking about ChatGPT-3.5, And you say, “Okay, that’s fine, but can it really … What about a real live clinical situation?” That is the first clinical use case. Let me ask you a question.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

For an ever deeper dive into the subject of negotiation and dispute resolution, check out the following links (and for any caregivers interested in participating in the randomized clinical trial of the NegotiAge training, feel free email the NegotiAge Research Team at negotiage@northwestern.edu ): . Eric: Yeah. Alaine: Yeah. Eric: Fabulous.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. We do a lot of clinical focused discussions.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Drawing from her experience running a physician suicide helpline , she speaks candidly about the emotional toll of assembly-line medicine , the link between overwork and doctor suicide , and the revolutionary joy of reclaiming your career by launching your own ideal clinic. I was in a big-box clinic. Trying to get out. Is that true?

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The New York Post, not known for its Democratic leanings, stated in an article published on November 14 that installing Kennedy as the head of HHS breaks the most important rule of medicine: first, do no harm. On the flip side, in the case of drugs that he believes should have been approved but were not, FDA is waging a “war on public health.”

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

You wrote the SF Chronicle article on an op-ed. Carly: Absolutely, and I will say we had a really hard time narrowing it down to these three because amongst those of us who wrote that article, we can think of hundreds of people. So Carly, I’m going to start off with you. What instigated you to write an op-ed? Eric: Yeah.

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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!

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