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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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. 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. Transcript.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). I will say, the other critique we had in the article was around generalizability.

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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. It’s the same measure we used in the New England journal article.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. 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. I’m excited.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Bragging rights. Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I remember as a fellow, I would come in and our nurse practitioner on our hospice team, I would say the word narcotics, and f or half an hour, she would just lay into me. But that was my take home from Danny’s article. Alex 01:17 We had the wrong terms drilled into us. We just unlearn what we have learned. Sach 07:22 Yeah.

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