Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Bill Skelton, founder of the Acupuncture Clinic here in Columbia, SC, gave me the film to watch and said he thought that as a Direct Primary Care physician and owner of Noreta Family Medicine, I would appreciate it. As a family doctor who has worked for a large hospital system in the past, I fully agree with this contention.

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Sound Physicians

JUNE 9, 2025

Family practitioners hold critical knowledge about that patient’s health history to help guide a more successful stay in the hospital. Posted in Hospital Medicine Share Article Subscribe to the Sound Physicians Blog A trusted source for todays healthcare needs.

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Reference: Benson J , Sexton R , Dowrick C , et al, Staying psychologically safe as a doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic As we face the ongoing global pandemic of COVID-19, doctors, and particularly general practitioners and family doctors (GPs), answer the call to serve in time-pressured, unfamiliar, chaotic, and often-traumatic environments.

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Sound Physicians

JUNE 25, 2025

Are you looking for a vibrant city life or a quieter, family-friendly community? Look at the leadership structure, continuing education opportunities, and potential for advancement. Posted in Uncategorized Share Article Subscribe to the Sound Physicians Blog A trusted source for todays healthcare needs. Ready, set, GO!

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

AUGUST 29, 2024

Summer Edition - Part 1 - Articles on State & Federal Advocacy efforts, Student Interest, MAFP Member Spotlight, Practice Resources for SUD, Coding & Billing, Coping With Burnout and more! Fellows of the AAFP are recognized as champions of family medicine.

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Sound Physicians

OCTOBER 30, 2024

I was born and raised in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, before immigrating to Toronto with my family. From the very start of my transition to medical director, I have enjoyed the incredible support, education, and development needed to fulfill the duties of this position. How has Sound supported your leadership development?

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Faithful MD

JULY 28, 2021

This is a brief post to share a few updates, links to recent articles, and upcoming events. Earlier this year, I was one of five family physicians chosen to join the multi-specialty national WEL Alliance. First, Gratitude!

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

In an article for Obesity , researchers investigated how to better design lifestyle-based weight loss programs for older adults in order to address muscle and bone health concerns. Social support from family and friends ensures the patient has a robust support system to continue engaging in lifestyle behavior change.

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CDOCS

MARCH 31, 2021

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Because of this, carving out the time for family remains a top priority, and as our family grows, more and more time is needed to make that goal a reality. Publishing post after post, week after week, while juggling my clinical burdens, family life, personal goals, my health… it just became too much. Why reinvent the wheel?

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

There will be episodes of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast, blog posts here on PEMBlog, articles from Don’t Forget the Bubbles , videos, and more! You will no doubt be familiar with the following five recommendations – even if you’ve never heard of the Choosing Wisely organization before.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. 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. When was that, 2010? It’s a connection to that.,

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 17, 2023

I am also grateful for my family who stepped in after graduation and let my daughter come live with them so I could focus on intern year (they refused to let me move her to "dangerous" Philly lol) after not matching the first time. Later on in the month, I was able to take my daughter on a family trip to my alma mater LSU.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids. What is the role of the family caregiver system, how they play a role? Tamryn: Yes, 100%.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Helene highlighted that even wealthy communities and well-financed and well-educated populations can be caught off guard and devastated. If our family were to evacuate for a severe weather event and return to find a completely destroyed home or town, what would that look like financially? It has aged well I believe. What do you think?

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Attendee 3: PCHETA, the Palliative Care Hospice and Education Training Act, of course. Attendee 9: Early integration of palliative care in medical education. Eric: That’s why I love reading your articles, always so deep in science. Eric: And when do we expect that article to come out? Eric: What is PCHETA?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Today we are coming back for more (or less given the content), talking about the following articles with their lead authors: First up, we talk with Ariel Green about her article in JAMA Network on preferred phrases a clinician may use to explain why they should reduce or stop the medication. Welcome, Liz, to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

I just thought there was so much we could learn and offer from every sense, from the clinical point of view, from the family point of view, from prevention, from treatment, epidemiology, et cetera. Certainly education, quality of education is extremely important. AlexSmithMD Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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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. Nick: More than obesity, more than education, that’s the one that people pay attention to. Transcript.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

She enjoyed talking with the half dozen other residents at her adult family home in Washington state. “It’s also often the family member or the person helping to manage them.” She works with the patient and a family member who often has power of attorney. “She was accurate,” Watt said.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Additional free firearm resources available at: The BulletPoints Project provides clinical tools for doctors and medical educators to help prevent firearm injury. Firearm Life Plan offers peace of mind to older adult firearm owners and families. LINK to article Also view this guide.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

First, a clinician’s thoughts must be encoded into words, then transmitted often via sounds, and finally decoded back to thoughts by a patient or family member. 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.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. 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.” And the sort of the ask was, “Oh yeah, you can talk to the family, right?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. So in preparation for this, I read a couple articles about social work leadership in palliative care.

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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.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 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

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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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. And so, three years of seeing over and over people having really difficult end of life experiences in the ICU, not being able to advocate for themselves, a lot of trauma for their families, I just thought, we have to do better than this.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

First, we’ve invited Jerry Gurwitz to talk about his recently published article in JAMA titled The Paradoxical Decline of Geriatric Medicine as a Profession (while it’s not the most upbeat title for the future of geriatrics, Jerry sees it as a call to action). I was going to start off by asking Jerry about why he wrote the JAMA article.

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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 21, 2023

Fayron: I think I was interested in family caregiving early on because I had it in my family, but it wasn’t until my postdoc days when I was writing my application that I needed to narrow it down. Those are the things that Black family caregivers that I’ve been working with go through. Fayron: Yeah. Alex: Oh, sorry.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. And there are no default pathways of family or friends to rely on and no known people who could potentially represent this person from within their inner circle.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. 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

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. It’s since spread to over 70 VAs. Heather: Sure.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

There was a Stanford article talking about you as a pioneer in this field. There was no conversation with the patient or the family about this. And the families were part of it, which is not what it was like in the hospital. Susan: Thank you. Eric: I wonder if, as a pioneer in the field… And I was just reading about that.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

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