Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

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Vaccination Family Families Appointment 52

Rao Doctor

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In this article today, I am going to answer a few frequently asked questions about this illness and also learn how to get rid of it. Heat Exhaustion: Exposure to excessive heat, whether environmental or due to physical exertion, results in heat exhaustion. In the meantime, you can browse my other articles.

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Diagnosis Management Illness Medical 100

GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Sonali Advani and Lona Mody talk about their recent JAGS article highlighting three recent articles that every clinician caring for older adults should be aware of in the treatment of infectious diseases (hint: I’ve never finished a course of antibiotics, and maybe your patients don’t need that full course either).

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 96

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. Number four, again, structure and process that promotes early mobilization which may or may not require a formal OT and PT consultation. Kellie: Yes. And so there’s not a lot of added cost.

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Hospital Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 100

GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Eric: In the article, you wrote about creative engagement.

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Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

If you want to take a deeper dive into this subject and read some of the articles we discussed in the podcast, check out the following: Hearing Loss: Effect on Hospice and Palliative Care Through the Eyes of Practitioners. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. It has to do with movement and food in a lot of ways- Tamryn: Physical activity, nutrition, dietary changes. Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. Absolutely.

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 73

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. With their regular providers? And really learning from them about what kinds of things healthcare might provide, that might be of help to them. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. In their communities? How might we help this population? Eric: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 121

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

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. But watch out! That’s what I’m waiting for, Alex.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 104

PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

What you can expect to learn from this article: Recognize signs of end-organ injury when BP is 95th percentile + 30 mmHg. Before your blood pressure rises as well, know that this PEMBlog article is here to provide an overview of the recognition and management of hypertensive emergencies.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This office is tasked with providing aging policy research and recommendations within ASPE, including long term care and the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. And that led to many specialists doing work and advancing their fields within their professional societies, providing guidance and so on for older adults.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I love this series of articles because each presents a component of a practical, patient-centered approach to patient-surgeon communication and decision making, and language surgeons (and surgical trainees) can start using in their next patient visit. Alexis, welcome to GeriPal. Alexis: Thanks for having me. Alexis: Yeah.

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IT Family Families Patient-Centered 127

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. And which of those experiences would you like to share with us that we could then write into a story that we’ll share with providers? And so it was from that time on that then I continued going and that’s how Thor came into my life.

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Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 114

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!) So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. And which of those experiences would you like to share with us that we could then write into a story that we’ll share with providers? So it sounds like them.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 104

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

And it kind of made its way into medicine probably around, I’m going to say the 50s after there was a fairly interesting Time Life article that was published. And when that article went to print, it just went ballistic. Now they’re getting psychedelic experiences, you know, and transformation in a consulting office.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

So when I make a cartoon, usually I’m sending it to a few people before it’s ever seeing the light of social media, to make sure it’s not going to come across as insensitive either to patients or to my fellow providers. And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars. Did they ask for a consult?”

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

We’ve invited Jacqueline Kruser and Bob Arnold on this week’s podcast to talk about their recently published JAMA Viewpoint article titled “ Reconsidering the Language of Serious Illness. ” Sunita: Honestly, I’d be happy to provide the vocals. And I wonder, because I read that need part a lot in this article.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Family 135

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

For example, there was one article that we reviewed for Jags where it asked great questions, they gave great prompts, and ChatGPT answered great questions about antipsychotics and gave a list of references to back up ChatGPT’s assertions. I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

I wonder from a provider perspective, if you’re open to talking about your team. I think that as everyone is already starting to allude to, I think that there’s this in between space with adolescence and young adulthood that falls between our two areas of pediatrics and adult provider work. Eric: Yeah.

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Family Families IT Illness 83

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We discuss an article they wrote about PULET for the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, including: What makes a PULET a PULET? It’s just that he was foregoing things that we think would have provided him more benefit. Why did you even decide to write this article? Laura 10:36 Yeah, I was just.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 76

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. And so the article focuses on the work of these three men who were mostly gang involved and did something really bad when they were young. Michele: Yep. Eric: A few years?

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Family Families IT Community 131

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. 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.

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 100

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. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Check out some of their recent work, including: Dr. Holt-Lunstad’s and Dr. Perissinotto’s powerful perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine which provides a clinical framework for addressing loneliness and social isolation. I think I feel more comfortable as a provider in trying to support people in their isolation.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 98

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Well, I’m a geriatric nurse practitioner and I provided care to over 800 nursing home residents in 11 different nursing homes. I was really struck by the difference in care provided to people with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And for this podcast in particular, both Bill and Louise wrote articles that we’re going to be discussing particular patient cases. So while you don’t have to, we’re gonna summarize these articles. If you have a chance to read those articles before you listen to this podcast, I highly recommend that you do.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

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. What she called total pain, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual, and she started addressing it. Raj is an anesthesiologist turned palliative care doctor. What do you think about that?

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Community IT Relationship Healthcare 114

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. by Kearney. I promise its short. Justin 01:59 Absolutely.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 103

GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing. There was an article that came out about cancer center advertising. Welcome back to GeriPal, Tony.

Illness 101

Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So you, Jennifer, probably have, like, the most cited, probably should be the most cited randomized controlled trial of palliative care and lung cancer patients that everybody, every palliative care article I’ve seen, whether or not it works, always includes, it was outpatient palliative care in lung cancer patients. All of this is.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 117

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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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 105

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

So take a listen and check out some of these resources for healthcare provider loss, grief, and wellness: 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. Craig: Thanks so much, Alex and Eric.

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Healthcare Professional Healthcare IT Relationship 102

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. Eric: Yeah.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Family 98

GeriPal

JULY 17, 2025

Articles : Emanuel LL, Solomon S, Chochinov HM, et al. Dani 17:06 All those patients who decline the palliative care consult because on some level, our presence symbolizes death. Eric 18:03 So I would say that the number of palliative care providers would be significantly less. Solomon S, Greenberg J, Pyszczynski T.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Relationship 55

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

You wrote the SF Chronicle article on an op-ed. What was life for you as a provider pre-pandemic? If we’re going to get really academic, that’s the umbrella, and that can include a lot of things like including phone calls between a provider and a patient or messages in someone’s electronic medical record.

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