Tiny Physician

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Nevertheless, PG doctors have to work 80 to 100 hours a week without any holidays and this tiring schedule does affect their physical and mental health. This may result in errors in the diagnosis of the patient whom the doctor was examining initially. patients show their frustration at doctors. What can we do to solve this problem?

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Government Referral Hospital 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Eric 00:27 So we’re going to be talking about making the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in a primary care setting, not specialty care, but maybe we could talk a little bit about that. How much should it change how we think about making a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in primary care? Great to be back. Absolutely.

Primary Care 96

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 96

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. So they had to be within three months of diagnosis and they were going to be randomly assigned to either the traditional model that we’ve been testing. Who will emerge victorious?

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. Those things do just accumulate with age.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A lot of those symptoms of depression can also be attributed to different kinds of physical symptoms. We might say, “Of course you’re sad, you just got a very serious diagnosis.” If you’re low energy, well, is that the illness or depression? Is this a new onset depression? Is this an adjustment disorder?

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

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).

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119