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.

IT 64

IT Hospital Screening Patients 64

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. So you mentioned the burden of chronic multimorbidity and sort of flogging through the diabetes and the hypertension.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Eric: This comes down to also like, if I find… As an oncologist, somebody has very high hypertension, is it my role to control that hypertension? Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Oh, you were? Eric: Yeah.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations. 2 , 4 I believe this is crucial and that all politicians should know about it.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Family Families GP 130