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JUNE 6, 2025

Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini Blog Article These nine cost-effective strategies can boost employee morale and retention in medical practices, addressing turnover without breaking the budget. Turnover is eating medical practices alive. Below are nine no-cost tactics to lift morale today and retention tomorrow.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

Reynolds Blog Article Physicians Practice Physicians Practice June 2025 Volume 3 Issue 3 Physicians navigate challenging payer negotiations, sharing success stories of securing approvals for innovative, cost-effective treatments. First, I found the decision maker (bean counter) with some effort.

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JUNE 24, 2025

Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini Blog Article Thoughtful design in medical practices enhance patient experience, boost staff productivity, and improve online reviews without major renovations. First impressions in medicine form long before anyone touches a stethoscope. 65: Patient autonomy with Jeffrey A. Singer, M.D.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 27, 2025

Reynolds Blog Article The small details, like restroom cleanliness, shape patient perceptions and impact healthcare experiences in practices. Their thoughts might jump to, “If they can’t keep their bathroom clean, what about their attention to my healthcare records?

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 16, 2025

Reynolds Feature Article Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts. Reynolds Feature Article Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts. Click here to read the rest of the article and be sure to check back next week for another Tip of the Week!

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JUNE 9, 2025

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JUNE 9, 2025

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 19, 2025

Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini Blog Article These essential strategies will enable your practice to safeguard digital assets and ensure compliance. Reynolds June 9th 2025 Article Your monthly collection of insights from the Physicians Practice Pearls writers is available now!

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 26, 2025

In just three to five minutes every contributor will introduce themselves, share a signature “pearl” they rely on in daily work or preview the practical themes they will unpack in upcoming articles. Our goal is to humanize expertise while adding fresh energy to your practice.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

Reynolds Blog Article Innovative medical practices thrive by embracing change, prioritizing patient care and learning from setbacks to enhance success and satisfaction. I don't believe anyone will arrest or fine you for practicing patient-first healthcare. The rule is being bent only with the patient's best interest in mind.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

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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. Alex 00:36 And next we have Connie Fung, who I know well through the Beeson community and is a physician, researcher, professor of medicine at UCLA. Alex 00:24 Great.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Kemi Doll , a physician-researcher and coach, has a terrific podcast I highly recommend everyone listen to, though it is targeted at women of color in academic medicine. On the other hand, there is a concerning side, described in this Guardian article titled, I’m a life coach, you’re a life coach: rise of an unregulated industry.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Should do medicine?” ” Because I loved internal medicine. The post Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. And because we can’t resist, we dip into aducanumab and lecanemab at the end. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

So I actually was doing a grand rounds as my final presentation here at Yale for my fellowship on the role of music in host pice and palliative medicine. 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. That’s how you do it.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Wonderful work. Every Veteran has a story.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

I, for example, had one patient, I remember during my fellowship, I was in geriatrics clinic and had a very well read patient who came in and was reading a New York Times article, I think in the well section at one point. But they also did not do the DPOA for healthcare form. So there’s no healthcare surrogate.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!) Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. So it’s a very scary culture for people who are not in healthcare.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . Susan: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Eric: And in the article that’s being published in JAGS, you have multiple tables. Eric: So I guess it was table two in the JAGS article is about potentially inappropriate drugs. The review articles, the case studies, opinion pieces, things like that. So we’re trying to find articles that maybe support.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

And the main topic of today is a paper in Annals of Internal Medicine , Maria first author, that addressed the tradeoffs between initiating dialysis vs continued medical/supportive management. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, I am very excited today because there was an awesome article on Annals on conservative management versus dialysis.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

On this podcast we talk about her paper in JAMA Internal Medicine which studied three hospitals that varied in the intensity of care they provided to seriously ill patients. So before we talk about the results, can you give us a very brief overview of what you did in this article? So Liz, let’s jump into the topic.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

– @AlexSmithMD Here’s a link to an article about the Palliative Story Exchange. ** This podcast is not CME eligible. And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. There’s obviously a lot of flaws in the healthcare system. Transcript Eric 00:01 Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

Times , The BMJ , and Annals of Internal Medicine. . And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars. ” The first healthcare provider said, “I said withdrawal of care. Alex: And you published in Washington Post, Annals of Internal Medicine. Like, oh no, I said it.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

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. And decided, interesting article, but it raised as many questions as it answered. ” And we began writing and we got our first grant.

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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? Why did you even decide to write this article? And that was the last time that he’d been seen by our healthcare system. Eric 11:35 And let me ask you this.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I’d also like to give a shout out to a recent ACP article on HFpEF with an outstanding contribution from Ariela Orkaby, geriatrician extraordinaire (we also just did a podcast with her on frailty ). ** This podcast is not CME eligible. And so what happens is people just say, well, they’re older, they’re more vulnerable.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A great Curbsiders podcast episode on Trauma-informed care with Megan Gerber CAPCs Trauma-informed care toolkit Mariahs article on Home-Based Care for LGBTQ or another diverse gender identity Older Adults ** This podcast is not CME eligible. Eric 27:08 I’m going to also call out Mariah’s article in jags. Kate 01:09 Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Inspired by Dani Chammass paper in Annals of Internal Medicine titled, Wishing for a no show we talk about countertransference: start by asking yourself, Why am I having difficulty? But that was my take home from Danny’s article. Janet, how are you integrating addiction medicine and palliative care? We have this.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. Alex 06:20 Can I what’s the healthcare equivalent to the Starbucks coffee? Inside or outside of healthcare? Prior-auth forms? Examples of nudges, some based in health care, others in coffee. Eric 06:19 Oh yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We’re gonna be talking about three different articles that are gonna be presented Saturday, I believe, at the annual meeting. Three different articles. Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? We are going to have healthcare utilization data as well.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy?

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. It was this slow build, I would say. How do I reconcile these two issues?

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. One of them is Karen Steinhauser’s Annals of Internal Medicine paper on, In Search of a Good Death. And to keep it short work for an article. That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Aw, thanks. Ruth: Mm-hmm (affirmative).

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Thaddeus, you wrote an article in JAGS not too long ago.

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

There’s this great article in the New York Times yesterday about how maybe we should be treating AIs more respectfully because it’s possible they’re conscious. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. I appreciate that good job.

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