Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals.

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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. This is Eric Widera.

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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. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And not just statistically significant, but clinically meaningful. Most of the measures we use, at minimal clinically important differences that are established, and we met most of them.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans. These were clinically significant and statistically significant improvements. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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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

JULY 21, 2022

I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. When you think about getting your groceries, going to doctor’s appointments, going to religious services, if that’s important to you. Love to talk about also in the serious illness population.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Is it that they’re clinically depressed or that they’re understandably sad at the situation that they’re in or specific issues? It’s high, it’s too high.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Other states set lower bars, including oral assignment of surrogate decision-makers.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Somebody shouts at my front Desk staff because they’re pissed off about their appointment time. The clinical trials and the this and that. I said, you know, I don’t usually start my appointments in laughter. Because like Amanda said, everything we see is coping. Everything. Somebody writes a beautiful poem.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Gretchen: Yeah, I think probably the underlying story here is that I’m really good at doing negative randomized clinical trials, but there is a good thing about doing a big clinical trial, which is that you get tons of data even if you don’t end up with the result that you want. And that’s how we connected.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does. So I do think it often does happen that younger adults appoint a surrogate when they engage in estate planning, for example. And I don’t think necessarily, that appointment needs to be a medicalized process.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

OCTOBER 1, 2024

You can schedule an appointment at our clinic, or stop into a local pharmacy such as Hy-Vee or Lewis to get your flu shot. For more information, contact our team of healthcare professionals. The flu vaccine is very accessible. The post Get Your Flu Shot Before the Flu Season!

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

It always has clinical relevance to practice today. So Annie Since I was appointed timekeeper. So I’m going to ask Eric and Ken to identify their favorite topic that they’ve covered to discuss any of the updates that they’re thinking that can be relevant to clinical care of older people. It’s okay.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Keri Brenner, who is also a psychiatrist and palliative care doctor and clinical associate professor at Stanford. I’m really excited about this because clinically this happened to me, somebody was very angry at something we were talking about. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

And you say, “Okay, that’s fine, but can it really … What about a real live clinical situation?” I think we’re getting closer to real live clinical situations, not just answering a test. I don’t need to know how to bill, to enter encounter information to code. Those things are coming.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Eric 07:31 A clinical perspective, why is it important to test this stepped care model versus implementing more? And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. Jennifer 07:31 From.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Does this issue ring true to you clinically? In your clinical, everyday reality, this comes up and say, like, does this ring true to you from your work in the icu, from your work with patients? And then once we have the surrogate, let’s really try to give them the information they need to make decisions. Alex 10:44 No.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so one of the patients that we mentioned in that article is a gentleman who lived four hours away who was unable to come to chemotherapy appointments because his pain was so debilitating once we gave him not a huge amount of opioids, he was actually able to come get chemotherapy and then live for much longer. Eric: Yeah.

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