Dr. Zaar

MAY 20, 2025

The article goes into detail about remote monitoring, its advantages, and how you can begin using it. CGMs, smart glucometers) Real-time data sharing with care teams Benefits of Remote Monitoring Timely adjustments to treatment Reduced hospital visits Improved long-term blood sugar control Early detection of fluctuations Who Can Benefit?

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 10, 2025

We consider such collaborations in this article. It is an individual tool designed to function in this fashion. With such a system in place, a hospital can have multiple AI agents across medical departments to communicate and share insights, such as for appointment bookings and subsequent steps in a patient’s healthcare journey.

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Sound Physicians

APRIL 28, 2025

Still, we know that sometimes the final decision comes down to a single factor: cost. While we’ve earned our reputation over the decades for our clinical excellence in hospital medicine , we’ve also earned — somewhat unfairly — a reputation for being more expensive than our competitors. We’re better at predicting revenue cycle projection.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

Richardson — A recent proposed amendment to Minnesota’s Opiate Product Registration Fee appears intended to ensure continued availability of certain opiate products at hospitals. If enacted, Article 5, Section 6 of HF33 would provide for a reduction to the State’s opiate product registration fee. 151.066, Subd.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 6, 2024

In this article, I want to give you a clearer understanding of what concierge medicine is, why it’s gaining popularity, and how it might be a good fit for you. In a traditional healthcare setup, doctors are often overwhelmed with large patient rosters, leaving them with limited time for each individual. What is Concierge Medicine? "A

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

Michael’s Hospital in Unity Health Toronto, and Dr. Alika Lafontaine, the current President of the Canadian Medical Association. The dehumanization of individuals of color at the margins of society by the healthcare system is not simply a thing of the past, and is certainly a persistent phenomenon.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS. So as you mentioned, dementia, there’s some research that show about 86% or 93% of those individuals will get that. This is Eric Widera.

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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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BMJ

JULY 17, 2020

4 This short article draws on lessons learnt from other infectious disease outbreaks, such as HIV and Ebola, to help inform approaches to COVID-19-related stigma within China. 8 For example, prestigious medical schools and hospitals could use official WeChat accounts to share information and news with the general public.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. Communication techniques we can use when talking to individuals with hearing loss. But individuals who have hearing loss, there’s several problems. How to screen for hearing loss.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

So on today’s podcast we invite four brilliant individuals to talk about their perspective on how to change how we as a society and health care system partner with individuals with dementia. We’re going to be talking about things like creative engagement in individuals with dementia. Susan: Yeah, that was me.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 17, 2023

This blog has connected me with so many incredible individuals over the years, and it let me know the importance of sharing our stories. Paving the Way When I first created this blog ten years ago, I was unsure if there were others out there like me, and this blog has connected me to so many great individuals on a similar path.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In the wake of a hurricane as devastating as Helene, tens of thousands of individuals are likely filing claims, surely totaling billions of dollars. Assuming my hospital is still standing, I would obviously continue to work my job as best as I could to continue to bring in income. It has aged well I believe. What do you think?

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

He overheard the term and used it to describe himself and clinic staff in a 1974 article on staff burnout detailing long-term physical and psychological job stress. Psychiatrists define burnout as a job-related dysphoria in an individual without major psychopathy—meaning you’re normal; your job is killing you. So what’s the real issue?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

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. Beth: Right now, I’m actually just doing individual coaching, but we are writing a grant to start group coaching next year. Beth: Yeah. I got to get my terms right.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

And my hypothesis is that’s because it’s no longer the individual managing their own diabetes, it’s the nursing home staff managing their diabetes. So I’m more familiar with patients who develop diabetes after treatment, but I’m really interested in learning about patients that Nadine cares for.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What should we use to screen individuals? There’s an article about her in New York Times. In addition to the questions asked above, we also cover the following topics with our guests: What is dementia screening? Who should get it if anyone? What happens after they test positive? But it seems very apropos to the topic. Here we go.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

Targeted ICD selection based on predicted therapy benefit enhances patient outcomes while cutting hospital costs by 16.7%. Registry-based prediction models were applied to estimate individual prior probabilities.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. Today Liz Dzeng discusses her journey towards studying this issue in detail. So Liz, let’s jump into the topic.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Even cooler, the photographer took individual headshots of us that will be able to use for branding or however we like. You can check out that article HERE (open in Chrome and right click, there should be a Google tab that says translate page). It was such a beautiful gift. Our hours are grueling. Featured in the Tahitian News!

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

Source: cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(25)00460-4/abstract The post Social Risk Burden and Its Impact on Healthcare Use in IBD first appeared on Physician's Weekly. Social risk burden was categorized as none (0/6 domains), mild (1/6), moderate (2/6), and severe (≥3/6). 10.2]) and cost-related medication non-adherence (OR, 11.8 [2.7-52.1]),

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

We discuss our favorite articles, parody songs, and memories from AGS meetings past, with a little preview of a song for this years meeting. We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. And then I got to choose the first article.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For the better half of 2024, I have been periodically writing posts that are individual articles that double as potential chapters to a future book. Before we discuss each individual savings account, let us first highlight exactly what it means to ‘automate’ your savings. Saving money is simple but not easy.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. David: Right.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This all came out from JAGS just published their first Clin-STAR corner, which is, and we’ll talk about what that is, but it’s a series of articles bringing in specialists to talk about updates in the last couple years within their field. So this point led us to select these articles. Eric: That’s exciting.

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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. And then tier two is unvaccinated individuals not included in tier one who are at risk for severe disease. What’s wrong with that? Why not prioritize them?

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

Edwards edited by Gaby Clark , reviewed by Andrew Zinin Gaby Clark scientific editor Meet our editorial team Behind our editorial process Andrew Zinin lead editor Meet our editorial team Behind our editorial process Editors notes This article has been reviewed according to Science Xs editorial process and policies.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Today we talk with Sarguni Singh, hospitalist-researcher at the University of Colorado, Ann Henshaw, Occupational Therapist who teaches at George Washington and works clinically at Georgetown, and Tamra Keeney, Physical Therapist-researcher at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Tamra, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. 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? Jennifer: Thanks.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. But we’re not perfect individuals.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

If you want to do a deeper dive into some of the articles we discuss, take a look at the following: An awesome JAMA review by Sarah on fall risk assessment and prevention in community-dwelling adults. Sarah 11:14 So it’s really assessing patients for their individual risk factors for falls. Vision is another obvious one.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

-Additional link to study with heatmaps of specific locations (hospital, nursing home, home) after initiating dialysis. -@AlexSmithMD ** NOTE: To claim CME credit for this episode, click here ** Transcript Eric 00:11 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Eric 11:50 I also have to ask, because we will have a link to this article.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Many were community hospitals. The intervention was a negative study for the primary outcome, hospital length of stay. What is sludge?

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals.

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