The Medical Futurist

MAY 18, 2025

Assisting surgeries, disinfecting rooms, dispensing medication, keeping company: believe it or not these are the tasks medical robots will soon undertake in hospitals, pharmacies, or your nearest doctor’s office. These new ‘colleagues’ will definitely make a difference in every field of medicine.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

She is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Simon, MD, MPH , is Boston’s inaugural Chief Behavioral Health Officer, appointed by Mayor Michelle Wu. He Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

She is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Simon, MD, MPH , is Boston’s inaugural Chief Behavioral Health Officer, appointed by Mayor Michelle Wu. He Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Promote SNAP and Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) Program Enrollment: Have information available to patients within the clinic for food assistance programs: WIC and Health Care Providers resource and SNAP. M Health Fairview’s Fair Table program ensures convenient access to food during medical appointments.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

APRIL 12, 2025

Typical tasks may include: Recording information in patients’ medical records. Providing prescription information to pharmacies. Some medical assistants work in the offices of other health practitioners, outpatient care centers, or hospitals. Scheduling patients’ tests and procedures.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 27, 2025

Opportunities for healthcare admin assistants across Connecticut are growing, from clinics and hospitals to private practices like the Physicians Alliance of Connecticut. Scheduling patient appointments and ensuring providers’ schedules are well-organized. What Does a Healthcare Administrative Assistant Do?

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Plum Health

MAY 22, 2023

DPC clinics provide members with: Personalized, preventive care Management of chronic conditions No co-pays or insurance billing Treatment of ailments and illnesses Same-day appointments and no wait times Unlimited appointment lengths 24/7 access to care Exams, labs, and testing Specialist referrals, as necessary And much more.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

Health insurance covers only very short visits that are limited to 1-2 problems per visit, leaving little time for patients to be able to share all of the relevant information about longstanding symptoms. In fact, because they are starting from scratch and missing information, they may end up contradicting something you were previously told!

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Contributing to this challenge is the exponential growth of information, an expanding population of older adults, and office visit documentation. 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. Outside of work.

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ABIM

JUNE 12, 2025

Upgrades to the ABIM website and Physician Portal for 2025, designed to make it easier for both physicians and the public to find information. At the spring meeting, the Geriatric Medicine Board reviewed candidate materials for two openings and voted to approve the following appointments: Kourosh A.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

The doctor can bend the rules by informing the patient about the potential adverse effects. Did they have to wait long to obtain an appointment? For example, if you need to refer your patient to another physician for specialized attention, encourage staff to do the preliminary work and make the call and appointment for the patient.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). I’m an internist, so when I hospitalize patients, 1 in 8 of my patients now takes pregabalin or gabapentin. Eric 20:51 And your deprescribing was on hospital discharge.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

He was an otolaryngologist and epidemiology person too, might have an appointment in geriatrics too. And when you think about that, they’re hearing pieces of the information and their brain is trying to make sense of it. Including more hospital utilization or healthcare utilization, maybe cognitive impairment issues.

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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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Concierge Choice Physicians

APRIL 23, 2025

Membership is simply an option for those patients who want the assurance they will always see their chosen physician for appointments. For more information, please visit www.ccpmd.com. No patients are dismissed, and referral networks remain intact.

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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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Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 28, 2024

There is a lot of information and a lot of marketing out there creating a lot of confusion. In my residency training at a community hospital in an underresourced area of Washington, DC, I frequently treated patients who were suffering severe consequences of these conditions that could have been prevented with earlier treatment.

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ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

Upgrades to the ABIM website and Physician Portal for 2025 designed to make it easier for both physicians and the public to find information. SHEA is developing an infectious disease fellows healthcare epidemiology curriculum that will be published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology within the next few months.

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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 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

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

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

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. While everyone says we should be doing this to the best science available, every hospital has a different interpretation of that. ” Some say, “Everyone gets a PHQ-9.

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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

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

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. I can get you guys that information.

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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

APRIL 3, 2025

So Annie Since I was appointed timekeeper. I believe the age range was over 80 hospitalized patients and showed that relatively light level physical activity, often with weights, improved hospital outcomes. So Tim Anderson did a wonderful study looking at hypertensive management in the hospital. It’s okay.

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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

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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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. You may not see the big picture, like treating somebody with advanced dementia by hospitalizing them and starting antibiotics for aspiration pneumonia and potentially a peg tube.

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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

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 30, 2025

So delivering those month visits in clinic, often in tandem with their other oncology appointments. But we do have the information about referrals to other ancillary providers as part of that multidisciplinary team. Lynn 37:39 I was in the hospital. So it matters. It’s a piece of the intervention.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Providers at New South Family Medicine and MedSpa can address the patient's deeper needs, rather than trying to rush through a hectic day full of too-brief appointments. In some cases, you may be referred to a hospital or specialty service. Instead, they establish a direct patient-provider relationship, for a flat fee.

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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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