GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Physical activity is a big one. 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. And because we can’t resist, we dip into aducanumab and lecanemab at the end. This is Eric Widera. So, that’s one thing.

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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

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. Importance of Physical Examinations Physical examinations also play a significant role in diagnosing health conditions. 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

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

JULY 3, 2025

Spoiler: It’s more complicated than it seems. That that idea of kind of achieving stability and needing ongoing care for cancer related complications was sort of where the advanced cancer survivorship idea came. So one of my colleagues, Riley Fadden, is a melanoma NP and she’s an expert in immunotherapy complications.

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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

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. A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. Eric 04:42 There was even less on GeriPal.

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Edge Family Medicine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Regular physical exams at Edge Family Medicine are essential for maintaining your health and well-being. Whether you’re dealing with a chronic condition or simply maintaining wellness, regular physical exams are a key component of long-term health. Why Schedule Regular Physical Exams? This ensures your care stays on track.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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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. I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0 Greenwall Foundation Bill Stubbing lecture Are Robots Racist?

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. But I think if I were under normal constraints of the healthcare system, I wouldn’t have that time. Drugs has to do with polypharmacy. And so that’s good for comorbid conditions.

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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

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

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

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

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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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

Patients that remind us of loved ones, patients that are often younger, really hard stories, complicated issues. The whole idea of holding hope seems also so much more complicated for younger people because the hopes that they had, the normal hopes are not likely to be realized. What are the patients that we remember? Abby: Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. So while you don’t have to, we’re gonna summarize these articles. Alex 02:37 Great choice.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Here are a couple of articles if you want to do a deeper dive: Dani and colleagues article on Psychiatry and Palliative Care: Growing the Interface Through Education. Dani and colleagues article on Palliative Care Psychiatry: Building Synergy Across the Spectrum. Eric 33:23 Article on Thaddeus Pope. And you can talk.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And I got from your article, while the peaks follow this pattern, people feel a lot of different things where it just reminds me of the times I’ve grieved. It’s complicated, it’s messy. How does that defer from is it complicated grief, prolonged grief disorder? Eric: Is that the same as complicated grief?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 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.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

That said, I think we, and I mean collectively, not just in critical care, I think we as a healthcare system, I think we’re really good at keeping people alive. I think it’s really, really complicated. Where she has each of the age categories and you see the prevalence of frailty increasing. That’s a great question.

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AMMD

APRIL 1, 2025

Technically, no… but it’s a little more complicated than that. Before I do, I want to set the intention for this article. Healthcare providers typically diagnose candidiasis through a combination of medical history, symptom evaluation, and laboratory tests. How do you know whether it’s candida or something else?

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary We are dusting off our crystal balls today with three amazing guests who have all recently published an article on prognosis over the last couple months: Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley. Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. This is Eric W id era.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

That was the lesson I learned from reading a new book edited by Matt Loscalzo along with Marshall Forstein called “ Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals ”. Eric: We’re going to be talking about loss and grief and the role of debriefing for healthcare providers. Turns out, it’s maybe not.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Here are some articles that Kira and I have written about the topic, and that’s really how my interest in addressing sexual health concerns started. It sits at the intersection of emotion, interpersonal, physical, psychological, cultural. And I work right next to Don at the time. He was like, yeah, tell me about it.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Eric 01:07 So we have an amazing lineup of guests and we’re going to be talking about a pragmatic study on advanced care planning, which we’ll have links to in our show, notes for the actual article. But before we dive into the study and the implications it has for the practice that we do, I believe someone has a song request.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It’s not a new debate but has gathered steam at least in palliative care circles since Sean Morrisons published a JPM article titled “ Advance Directives/Care Planning: Clear, Simple, and Wrong.” And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Read transcript and/or download & listen to MP3 below:  Physician burnout—symptom of a broken system “Burnout” has become one of the most talked-about issues in healthcare—but behind the buzzword lies a deeper crisis. ” I’m like “Do you really want to like complicate your life? Just stop right now.

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Permanente Medicine

JULY 8, 2025

Ceci has long been recognized as one of Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People, and spent 25 years covering politics and health care as a reporter. My articles would’ve gotten a lot longer, but not necessarily any better. Thank you for joining us today, Ceci. Ceci Connolly: Thank you, Steve.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

So take a listen and if you want a deeper dive into some of the references we discuss on the podcast, here is a list: Medscape article on how “ COVID-19 Vaccines Work Better and for Longer Than Expected Across Populations, Including Immunocompromised Individuals”. Stat news article about variants/COVID becoming more predictable.

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