Plum Health

OCTOBER 6, 2024

In this article, I want to give you a clearer understanding of what concierge medicine is, why it’s gaining popularity, and how it might be a good fit for you. Concierge medicine is a healthcare model that offers patients personalized care, better access to their doctor, and a more proactive approach to managing their health.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 16, 2025

Reynolds Feature Article Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts. You might also want to estimate how long the visit will last so the patient can plan their schedule before or after the doctor’s appointment.

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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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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. Read the findings.

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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. What is it that they see? What is their first impression of your staff?

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 18, 2025

With remote-controlled medical robots, caretakers can interact with their patients, check on their living conditions and the need for further appointments. Robotic medical dispenser systems, medication management solutions help any given facility “right-size” its system for its volume.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Moore & Riëtte van Laack — Last fall, when AMG Capital Management, LLC v. Supreme Court in AMG Capital Management, LLC v. As we reported here , the U.S. FTC , No. 19-508 (Apr.

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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 ). Eric 16:36 Okay, Connie, I got one last question about your article. Michelle 35:24 So we did a little different study design than the other articles we’ve heard about today.

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Edge Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Effective Follow-Ups – Great for medication adjustments, test results, and chronic disease management. Secure TeleVisits through our patient portal for seamless online appointments. Accessibility – Ideal for patients in rural areas or with mobility challenges. Safety – Reduces exposure to contagious illnesses. Need to schedule a visit?

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Whether you’re managing a chronic condition, seeking preventive care, or dealing with an urgent health issue, primary care is the foundation of good health. It’s where you turn for regular check-ups, advice on staying healthy, and help with managing any chronic illnesses like diabetes or hypertension. What is Primary Care?

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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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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 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). So this point led us to select these articles.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Because often what we hear from patients, “I do a lot of pain management research,” but mood comes up in that a lot, is that, “Oh, I don’t want to talk to my doctor about this. And then the NCCN now has a similar guideline requiring comprehensive distress management for their accreditation in cancer centers.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. It was around helping communication, and really focused on our nursing manual, and particularly around these guidelines for assessing and managing symptoms. So, the training was largely around… It was different for the nurse. Eric: Oh, wow.

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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. And then there was a lot of stuff on coping and symptom management.

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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. I adored this article. Alexis, welcome to GeriPal. Alexis: Thanks for having me.

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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. And so there’s complexity in Understanding how each state manages this. They have an advance directive.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why the field is moving away from prescribing methadone to bupenorphine; how to manage patients prescribed methadone for opioid use disorder who then develop serious and painful illness – should we/can we split up the once daily dosing to achieve better pain control? But that was my take home from Danny’s article.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. Well, there’s my complaint. Nate 14:25 Oh.

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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? Like, how do we help ourselves maintain psychological integrity in the face of the stressors that we have to manage? Somebody shouts at my front Desk staff because they’re pissed off about their appointment time.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

For example, there was one article that we reviewed for Jags where it asked great questions, they gave great prompts, and ChatGPT answered great questions about antipsychotics and gave a list of references to back up ChatGPT’s assertions. Five minute appointments. Our names were slightly off. They were made-up, cited references.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

GPs Improve Chronic Disease Management We live in a world of aging populations, with rising chronic diseases, multimorbidity, and polypharmacy. 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

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Negotiation Training for Case Managers to Improve Older Adult Acceptance of Services. Prof Case Manag. I chose, not healthcare management, which a lot of my colleagues have done, but I actually chose negotiation and dispute resolution, which I thought was fun, as well as marketing. Is it getting to a doctor’s appointment?

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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. They couldn’t get a case manager to refer them in palliative care.

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