The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

There are widely varying figures, ranging from 66% to 90% depending on the source of information.) Their success is understandable : they offer a fast and easy method to check any skin conditions, typically for a fraction of the cost of a traditional healthcare appointment.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. During these regular appointments, doctors conduct various tests and screenings to catch issues early. Conclusion Finding the right clinic doesn't have to be a headache.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

In these cases, an urgent care clinic might be the best option since it offers same-day appointments, extended hours, and immediate treatment. If your symptoms get worse before your appointment, you may need to go to urgent care. No fever or difficulty swallowing Without these red flags, it’s typically safe to wait for an appointment.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Also the same hospital system? Eric: Okay. Kate: 3,500.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. People had to be in the top 20th percentile of risk for being hospitalized or dying in the next year.

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Tiny Physician

DECEMBER 11, 2021

As Government medical colleges are the only hope for a major section of the society who can’t afford the bills of corporate hospitals, the crowd at medical colleges is almost always unmanageable with the current strength of doctors. Appointment of Non-Academic Junior Residents (NAJRs) till new batch of junior residents arrives.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. And that can really inform what your own institutional policy is. This is Eric Widera. Alex 01:24 This is Alex Smith. But we always talk about capacity being decision specific. Eric 20:31 Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. 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.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. You get a consult if you get a consult.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

” And Bing responded, I should ask about how AI can help identify patients who need palliative care and reduce hospitalizations, what are the benefits and challenges of using AI in decision-making, communication, palliative care, and how could AI support the quality of life and dignity of patients for those who are receiving palliative care?

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. You know, we found that 64% of the people we cared for never went to the hospital or ER.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I think the two spaces it comes out of, one is informed consent, which is this idea that people need to have an understanding of their disease and treatment. People think of the phases of a typical clinical consultation. And that’s how we connected. Gretchen: Absolutely. And I think it came out of this good space.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Alex 00:26 And we’re delayed to welcome Amanda Moment, who is a palliative care social worker at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Somebody shouts at my front Desk staff because they’re pissed off about their appointment time. I said, you know, I don’t usually start my appointments in laughter.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. We got admitted to the hospital, our inpatient palliative team developed their skill set because they had a place to send patients when they got discharged. He’s now hospitalized to break up that methadone into three times a day dosing.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. It’s opening this stock box of, all of a sudden, now what do I do with this information? Katie: Yeah.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And while I was in the hospital, I never actually got over, like you were talking about, Eric, my defensiveness, the sting to my ego and my character and my worth, enough to get to the place of thinking about how I could be a good doctor for him. Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 00:34 We are delighted to welcome back Jennifer Tem e l, who is a thoracic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Alex 10:53 Yeah, or like palliative care if they get a consult for whatever reason, but not trn consult, like standardized, you know, randomized to palliative care versus whatever they’re doing before.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

It was specific to the relationship with the patient, the patient’s social context in which they might take this information. Alex: Yeah, we talk a lot about de-skilling in geriatrics and palliative care, because so much of what we do is a consultant role. And then, this little mini consultant. That makes sense.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Another thing you could do is let’s really encourage discussion ahead of time between the appointed surrogate and the patient while the patient’s competent about patients preferences about their values. And then once we have the surrogate, let’s really try to give them the information they need to make decisions.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Brooke Calton, who is a palliative care physician and faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is also newly the Medical Director of palliative care at Devoted Health. Joe: Great to be here. Welcome back to GeriPal, Brooke. Brooke: Thank you.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts. After one appointment, the woman who was supposed to schedule me for my next one called me “Sweetie.” I went home and wrote a complaint letter to my health plan.

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