Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

How Family Physicians Can Help Address Food Insecurity Family physicians are often the first point of contact for patients, uniquely positioning them to identify food insecurity and connect individuals to vital resources. M Health Fairview’s Fair Table program ensures convenient access to food during medical appointments.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

Unfortunately among these alternative practitioners are many individuals who are selling tests, treatments, or supplements that are at best useless and expensive but at worst actually harmful. In the worst cases, the patient is dismissed as a malingerer or the symptoms are labeled as psychiatric when no one can find an answer through testing.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 26, 2023

Dr. Mary Catherine Beach is a professor in the School of Medicine, with appointments in the Center for Health Equity and the Berman Institute of Bioethics, at Johns Hopkins University. Opioid Epidemic and Stigma : Providers generally have a fear or discomfort using opioid agents as treatment for individuals with substance use disorders.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. Communication techniques we can use when talking to individuals with hearing loss. He was an otolaryngologist and epidemiology person too, might have an appointment in geriatrics too.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

And then, so from that point on, I began to look at technology systems, processes for all settings, inpatient, outpatient care at home, a hospital at home. I was at an ophthalmology appointment a while back and I was checking in and there was a receptionist, her name was Rosie. Outside of work. And who knows, you may just save a life.

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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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Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 28, 2024

Therefore, it is my practice not to prescribe intentional weight loss and instead focus on improving each patient's health with an individualized approach- by addressing underlying health conditions, social, and lifestyle factors affecting health- regardless of weight. But it is in my opinion the ethical and medically appropriate approach.

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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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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended?

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Asking clinicians to document prognosis did not change the primary outcome of hospital length of stay or really any of the secondary outcomes, which I’ll get into. Also the same hospital system? That’s when they got enrolled.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. How did you get interested in this? Alex: Yeah.

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ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

SHEA is developing an infectious disease fellows healthcare epidemiology curriculum that will be published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology within the next few months. The Education Committee is currently working on a certificate course to follow the launch of this curriculum.

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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

APRIL 3, 2025

Annie 02:31 So if you go to the A G S meeting every year, you know that this group of three individuals comprises the AGS literature update. But in spite of that, it is a lot of work for three individuals to pull all this together. So that this is not something that might affect the individual clinician patient decision.

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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). And this happened to me while I was in service a couple of weeks ago.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michaels Hospital in Toronto, and health justice activist. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Today we talk with Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician at St.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Katie: Yeah.

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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. For those individuals, how do you think about that? I think it is just about any clinician.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

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. So every transition into the hospital, every transition out of the hospital. It created a lot of challenges.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

So delivering those month visits in clinic, often in tandem with their other oncology appointments. Lynn 37:39 I was in the hospital. But it really does need some individualizing. Eric 37:27 And then all of a sudden, like, we started doing all video visits. Lynn, what were you doing in Covid 2020? Joe 41:30 Yeah.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations. 2 , 4 I believe this is crucial and that all politicians should know about it.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

So writing a eulogy or seeing that individual, we had an open casket, which was both very hard, but also, I would say, somewhat cathartic to actually do these rituals and participate in these rituals. It just depends on the family preference on the individuals involved. But there was something about the rituals that accompanied death.

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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. That’s a lot of appointments that we have to account for over time. Eric 26:47 How soon after from a hospitalization, all. They’ve been in the hospital twice in the last six weeks.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I was also working there at an adult day center for individuals with Alzheimer’s and other related dementias. Is it getting to a doctor’s appointment? How would you think about each individual of those three steps? Tell me, Alaine, how’d you get interested in this? Alaine: Yeah. What would that look like?

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Vida Family Medicine

JANUARY 18, 2022

Flu and COVID vaccines do not eliminate infections, but they can reduce the risk of infection and drastically reduce the risk of severe disease requiring hospitalization or ICU care. Skin cancer screening is recommended with an annual skin exam for individuals at increased risk based on their skin type and sun exposure.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

And really they’re trying to understand what reasonable quality of life can this person expect to achieve and just agonizing over those decisions, over every individual decision. That makes us lots of money for our hospital, but none of them want to be in the ICU and a respirator because we’re not making as much money off of that.

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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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