Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. Do you prefer a full-service medical center or a walk-in clinic?

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Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

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.

ER 52

ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment 52

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Emmy: But we know that physiologic changes with aging, like decreasing night vision and so forth, as well as medications, as well as medical conditions, can all affect whether you can drive. When you think about getting your groceries, going to doctor’s appointments, going to religious services, if that’s important to you.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

We have two new FDA-approved medications that reduce that amyloid buildup and modestly slow down the progression of the disease. So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? But these tests were never designed to diagnose. Great to be back.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Lastly, we discuss Katie’s paper on substance use disorder in an aging population and how one can incorporate the 5 Ms (ie, matters most, medications, mind, mobility, and multicomplexity) into a framework for age-friendly care for older adults with substance use disorder. Jessie: Yes. And then, looking at- Eric: Wow. So, one out of 10?

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. This topic came up with Bernie published an article in New England Journal called Deciding for Patients Who Have Lost Decision-Making Capacity Finding Common Ground in Medical Ethics.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alex 01:32 For us, answering that question today, we have Joe Greer, who’s a psychologist and associate professor of psychology at MGH and Harvard Medical School. So delivering those month visits in clinic, often in tandem with their other oncology appointments. Alex, who is gonna be answering that question?

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

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). Where are we with a lot of these medications?

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Five minute appointments. And this case has been worked out the best in terms of the artificial intelligence suggesting diagnoses the clinician may have missed. I would say though that any healthcare system needs to have a very, we have to have frameworks for how to evaluate this model Eric: Yeah. Alex: Mm-hmm. Charlotta: Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome S a ch Kale, who is a palliative care doc at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. But my medical training kicked in. Or they might, you know, they might sell their medication, which this population is also prone to. Who’s going to manage these medications?

Patients 72

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

And I also worry about this push towards just amyloid blood testing so as a way of diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease without doing the workup that’s needed beforehand. So Annie Since I was appointed timekeeper. So that’s what I worry about. That’s like less than one month month of these AB drugs. It’s okay.

IT 64

IT Hospital Screening Patients 64

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Eric: I also wonder, thinking about our own medical school training, at least mine, is that there wasn’t a lot of normalizing emotions in our med school. There’s so many elements of a patient that’s hospitalized or going through our medical system. What medications are the patient on? We’ll act it out.

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Patients IT Family Families 109

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Then, it was like, well, it does as well as, and now, better than humans passing the medical boards, passing the law boards, doing great on the SAT, all that stuff. You and I would listen to a suggested list of diagnoses and say, “That’s a reasonable idea. They had no idea. Okay, that’s scary, but pretty impressive.

IT 139

IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Eric 16:38 So everybody was diagnosed with an advanced lung cancer sometime in the last twelve weeks and then they were randomized. That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119