Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Read the American Journal of Public Health article, " T alking About “Firearm Injury” and “Gun Violence”: Words Matter." Users also can share resources, like tips for helping survivors cope, and find local behavioral health services. LINK to article Dial 9-8-8 if you or anyone you know needs help.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

The following is a summary of “Stigmatisation of survivors of political persecution in the GDR: attitudes of healthcare professionals,” published in the June 2025 issue of Frontiers in Psychiatry by Schott et al. A total of N=1357 practitioners from the German healthcare system participated.

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Edge Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Healthcare has evolved, and patients now have more choices than ever for medical consultations. Mental health consultations , including therapy and psychiatry. The Best of Both Worlds: Hybrid Healthcare Many patients find that combining telemedicine with in-person visits provides the best balance. Let’s break it down.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 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

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. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. David: Right.

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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.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Eloise is a palliative care NP at Stanford and co-founder of The Radicle Health Clinician Network. 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.

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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. And that’s why I think your article is so important is that we need standards. But why I decided to look at medical and mental health care and assisted living. And which journal again?

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The proximity to campus health clinics may also afford college students greater accessibility to healthcare providers for prescription medications such as stimulants which could end up being misused. We also need to expand barrier-free access to mental health services, including behavioral interventions.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

It’s broader than just psychedelic assisted psychotherapy because there’s non-psychotherapists often involved, and it’s different from what we do in conventional mental health. There was an article in New York Times last week about rampant prescribing of psychedelics. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. Eric 00:51 And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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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

JANUARY 18, 2024

We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Eric: Which brings us to an article. When we take a mental health history, for example, I think we ask people, we do the PHQ, or whatever it is that we’re doing, asking people that mood. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Jessie: Exactly.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

There was a Stanford article talking about you as a pioneer in this field. And then I immediately realized that I was fighting going into a mental health discipline because of my parents’ background in mental health as psychologists. Susan: Thank you. That was one thing. I don’t believe in it.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So falls, mobility concerns, polypharmacy, comorbidities, nutrition, social support, and mental health. 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.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. Eric: Because that article wasn’t too long ago. Did I get that close?

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

And if you want to learn more about buprenorphine from these amazing palliative care clinicians and others, check out of some of these articles: Learn more about caring for those with substance use disorder: . Article on buprenorphine in the elderly. I always thought this article came out 2011. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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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

APRIL 6, 2023

These hick pick codes are available to any chaplain in a healthcare system. And the problem with that, one of those codes is about spiritual assessment, so for me, in a system that has hundreds of hospitals that are now trying to come together as one, we’re the result of a merger of two major health systems.

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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. To learn more about CME for other GeriPal episodes, click here. Ashwin 00:49 Excited to be back.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. What motivated you to reach out to the healthcare audience in this way? The first guest is Liz Salmi.

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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 13, 2023

And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. Really, only thing that I think was really in the biomedical health services literature at that time was probably Carla’s paper on loneliness. Eric: 2010 was so long ago, we barely had Amazon Prime then.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

He studies the mental health system in the ways in which it has failed children and adolescents, and he writes about his experience with cancer in a blog, the Billgardner.substack.com, Billgardner, one word. We could have talked for hours! And I get to play a Bob Dylan song that’s been on my bucket list to learn.

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AMMD

APRIL 1, 2025

Before I do, I want to set the intention for this article. It can also affect your mood and mental clarity. Dr. Vincent Pedre shares incredible insight into the link between the gut and mental health on this podcast episode. Preventing Candida Overgrowth and Transmission Candida is a growing health concern.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

So our elders who are people of color, people who live in places that are already challenged by poor air quality and those things and access to healthcare, they also have greater risks. So the things that Karl mentioned, but also access to healthcare during a disaster or even heat. Why is it up to the healthcare system?

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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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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

When they think about homelessness, their mind goes to what I would call the individual risk factors, things like having a substance use disability or mental health disability. It is completely disconnected, like a scatter plot, between things like rates of substance use and mental health. Those are structural factors.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

See also guides for how to confront and discuss anti-Asian hate in these articles in the NEJM and JGIM. And that has an impact, as we’ve shown in the papers, on your social health, your mental health and physical health. We do talk about healthcare policy. We’re not a general policy podcast.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Eric: Which is, so let’s say I am a provider, a healthcare provider taking, let’s say a nurse practitioner working in an older, a clinic that’s mainly caring for older adults.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

Increased health anxiety has been a feature of the pandemic, with fears around leaving the home, social distancing, hand hygiene, and shortages of goods and medications due to panic buying commonplace. Thus, our results indicate clear shifts in prescribing and dispensing trends during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? We have all of these models that are out there that have proven benefits for patients, for caregivers, and some of them for healthcare systems as far as saving money for, let’s say, Medicare. Why do we need to do more?

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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. And now what we have all been waiting for, our keynote speaker on today’s theme of mental health.

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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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