Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini News Article Physicians Practice Physicians Practice June 2025 Volume 3 Issue 3 This year’s survey shows medical practice administrators wrestling with familiar challenges and new uncertainties. 67: Immigration policy and the physician shortage with Thomas E. Price, M.D.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

And our next guest is Amy Linsky, who’s a physician and researcher at the VA Boston Healthcare System and associate professor at Boston University University. Eric 16:36 Okay, Connie, I got one last question about your article. Maybe even had come in with a complication. Emily, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Why is that?

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Some of our healthcare systems are hard, and challenging, and I think that it’s time that we have a change. I think there’s maybe a little bit of debate as to when those turn from being just normal age related changes to then being something more, but it happens in many different areas of healthcare. Eric: Lovely.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

There’s an article about her in New York Times. So I think we’re poised now with the guide model and with the evidence we have about healthcare utilization, impact on caregivers, course of dementia, comorbidity management and all of that. But it seems very apropos to the topic. Soo 01:37 It’s a little obvious.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

If you want to do a deeper dive in ACE units, check out some of the following articles: The original NEJM paper on ACE units from 1996. After coming out of residency and taking care of lots of complicated older adults as of now, a brand new physician attending, I really needed that team to help me out. And that model just made sense.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

But I would say that in terms of education, it’s really complicated because it’s so confounded by socioeconomic status and so many social determinants of health. Or is it going to get worse because they’re now having these complications from lecanemab? AlexSmithMD Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

-@AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of life care Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex Smith: This is Alex Smith. Is that your experience?

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

In my previous article I covered the types of illness and the causes. During the examination, healthcare providers assess vital signs, such as heart rate and blood pressure, and look for physical signs of infection or illness. Using these methods can reduce temperature discomfort and minimize complications. FEVER FAQs (contd.)

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It’s Lona Mody who is a translational infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System. Our first guest is a repeat guest.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. Eloise 10:29 Yeah, I think what we saw in California was, prior to legalization, there was curiosity, but also a lot of their healthcare professionals didn’t know enough about it, so they didn’t discuss it with them. Is that your feeling, too? Alex 12:33 Sure, sure.

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Edge Family Medicine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Preventive screenings are essential medical tests that help detect diseases before symptoms arise, leading to more effective treatment and reduced healthcare costs. Better Health Decisions : Knowing about a health issue early empowers individuals to make informed choices about their lifestyle, treatment options, and overall healthcare.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. And really learning from them about what kinds of things healthcare might provide, that might be of help to them. It used to be a much more complicated model. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Falls are very common among older adults but often go unreported or untreated by healthcare providers. If you want to do a deeper dive into some of the articles we discuss, take a look at the following: An awesome JAMA review by Sarah on fall risk assessment and prevention in community-dwelling adults.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

This week, we discuss an article by bioethicists Govind Persad and Emily Largent arguing that the NIH guidance for allocation of Paxlovid during conditions of scarcity. I think we often said that we prioritize healthcare personnel on the basis of instrumental value because it seems less controversial. Govind: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

And I was looking for articles, and I wasn’t seeing as many as I expected. Jenny 04:45 Like, the last article was, like, 10 years ago. Eric 11:13 And, Tyler, that’s why I loved your article at J Gym on bringing music and benefits to patients at the bedside. Eric 04:42 There was even less on GeriPal. Can you tell us?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Eric: Well, this is the part that I love about your article, too, is that it’s not just these big, big family meetings where miscommunication happens. Yeah, I think we took a pretty broad definition in the article, but really it’s any failure to communicate clearly and adequately. And I think of the Doug White article?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications? Eric: We’re going to be talking about surgical communications, really based off a series of four wonderful articles in JAMA Surgery, titled Innovations In Surgical Communication.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Our guests Tim Farrell, Ramona Rhodes, and Nancy Lunderbjerg wrote an article in JAGS on this issue, and Sharon Brangman wrote a separate JAGS article on the need to achieve diversity in study populations. The article was titled, “ Change is coming ” – which also gives you a hint as to today’s song request.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 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. BJ: Mm-hmm.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Start by reading this article by Sean Morrison, Diane Meier, and Bob Arnold in JAMA , and this response from Rebecca Sudore, Susan Hickman, and Anne Walling. Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does. I think Bob also noted documenting it. Rebecca: Agreed.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Rethinking Automation and Inequity in Healthcare [link] [link] [link] MD Calc approach to inclusion of race [link] —— Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Charlotta: But I would say to that, I mean our healthcare system is currently has a lot of biases. This is Eric Widera. Our names were slightly off.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. They were more likely to have a major inpatient surgical complication. She falls and breaks her hip.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Today we talk with Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint, and Anne Kelly, authors of a JGIM article on the reasons we shouldn’t stop at “no.” This is not a process where they can see into the future around what complications or challenges may arise, but this is the world that we live in and we can anticipate that. Should you stop at “no?”

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Stacy: I honestly read Michael Pollan’s New Yorker article and was really inspired, and cold emailed the group at NYU, and they responded. Alex: It’s complicated. We, for very complicated reasons, ended up with niacin. There was an article in New York Times last week about rampant prescribing of psychedelics.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

We’ve got a, Sheryl published a great article, and Kenny and Ken published an editorial for that article. The songs about how saving lives is actually a pretty complicated business. And that’s why I think your article is so important is that we need standards. And which journal again? Eric: JAMA Network Open.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Eric 00:13 And, Alex, I am very excited today because there was an awesome article on Annals on conservative management versus dialysis. Or is it just this lingering practice of starting dialysis early before really severe complications develop? Eric 11:50 I also have to ask, because we will have a link to this article.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

So we’re going to have a link to the article that you published in JAMA IM titled The Hospital Culture and Intensity of End-of-Life Care at Three Academic Hospitals. So before we talk about the results, can you give us a very brief overview of what you did in this article? Eric: Yeah, and for our listeners, excellent job, Kai.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

But I think if I were under normal constraints of the healthcare system, I wouldn’t have that time. We brought up your JAGS article, which we’ll link to our show notes about some of the geriatric needs, falls. ” There’s a great article, I have to say, it’s one of my favorites in JCO.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Isom continues the conversation around the intentionality of these structural processes and the language that frames the racialization of substance use in the United States by lawmakers, media, and the healthcare profession. Once the need for labor was largely met, anti-Chinese narratives (e.g., Horvitz-Lennon, M., Balasuriya, L., Greiner, M.,

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

There was a Stanford article talking about you as a pioneer in this field. Several of your former PDIA, Project on Death in America, scholars banded together and published a very controversial article in JAMA as I’m sure you’re aware. My question is, what article are you most proud of? Susan: Thank you. Susan: Yeah.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. And I had no idea what that would look like or what I would do until I happened upon an article by actually a fellow Winnipegger, a man named Jim Brown who was an expert in mood disorders. She died at the age of 55, and was born with cerebral palsy.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And I just want to highlight, Jennifer has a great JPSM article that just came out. Would you also just mind mentioning kind of the JPSM article too? What drove you to write that article on this important trip to Seattle? And my article is about when I was a mid to junior faculty member trying to build this career.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Having read at least some of your research articles there’s a lot of focus around this intersection between what happens to people after the hospital stay post-acute, especially in the cancer patients. Eric: I felt that reading the article. We’ll have a link to that article on our show notes. Ann: Likely.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. Alex: We are honored to welcome Dr. Rajagopal, who goes by Raj, who is the author of Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Healthcare. We know that a department of healthcare cannot give it.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy! It would have a CPR section and then it would have a healthcare proxy section. Eric: That’s a complicated form then.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

First, we talk with Christine, a researcher and geriatrician from the University of North Carolina, who recently published a JAGS article titled Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections by nursing home clinicians versus a clinical guideline. So my algorithm in that article is really based off the work Van Bo et all have done.

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