Tiny Physician
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
There is an increasing trend in the number of medico-legal cases filed against doctors and doctors have started practicing defensive medicine (the ordering of tests, procedures, referrals, or avoidance of high-risk patients or procedures, to reduce medico-legal cases) for the sake of their safety. patients show their frustration at doctors.
Blood, Sweat, and Tears
MAY 24, 2022
You have to be able to laugh at situations, the system, the government, people and especially yourself (Mostly yourself). We booked a follow up appointment and he was on his way home. But I was glad no one needed referral. The phone rang, a referral from a clinic so I left to take the call. I’m not sure why.
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GeriPal
MARCH 6, 2025
As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. And that’s about half of our referrals. And so the attitude isn’t like, you know, oh, like they missed an appointment, like, okay, like this is so annoying.
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). We talk about: .
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. What state are they in?
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