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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 19, 2025

Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini Blog Article These essential strategies will enable your practice to safeguard digital assets and ensure compliance. Smartphones sit on the reception counter, physicians tap tablets at the bedside, and billing staff troubleshoot laptops from home.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 25, 2025

He has written ten books on practice management and the business of medicine. He has authored or co-authored over 250 articles that have appeared in peer-reviewed medical publications on various urologic topics as well as articles on practice management. which has served as a guide for women’s health.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini News Article Physicians Practice Physicians Practice June 2025 Volume 3 Issue 3 This year’s survey shows medical practice administrators wrestling with familiar challenges and new uncertainties.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini News Article Your monthly collection of insights from the Physicians Practice Pearls writers is available now! Reynolds June 9th 2025 Article This year’s survey shows medical practice administrators wrestling with familiar challenges and new uncertainties. 65: Patient autonomy with Jeffrey A.

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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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Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini Feature Article Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts. Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini Feature Article Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts. Recent Videos Related Content Practice tip of the week: Leading a medical practice Keith A.

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Physician's Practice

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 26, 2025

He has written ten books on practice management and the business of medicine. Each tightly produced episode offers a front-row seat to the personalities, real-world experience and quick-hit advice behind our most popular practice management columns. Our goal is to humanize expertise while adding fresh energy to your practice.

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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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Physician's Practice

JUNE 27, 2025

Reynolds Blog Article The small details, like restroom cleanliness, shape patient perceptions and impact healthcare experiences in practices. Please share your stories for a future article at doctorwhiz@gmail.com. Finding and fixing these details doesn’t just solve small problems; it prevents patients from imagining bigger ones.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

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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. As Michael LeBoeuf, PhD, says in his book The Greatest Management Principle in the World (Putnam, 1985), "You get what you reward."

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Eric 16:36 Okay, Connie, I got one last question about your article. Within the VA , there’s a program called Whole Health, which is really about trying to engage patients in many different modalities for pain management and just self care. We’ll go in order of how we did your articles. Why is that? Eric 35:19 Yeah.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 16, 2025

My article concluded: When reviewing colorectal cancer screening test choices with patients, family physicians can continue to recommend annual or biennial FIT as a comparable option to colonoscopy. But an analysis published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine indicates that it does not.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to focus upstream on the decision to initiate dialysis vs conservative kidney management. For example, with peritoneal dialysis and conservative management.

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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. . AlexSmithMD .

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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

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. We address: Why is caring for patients with this overlap so hard? That was my take home.

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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

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. But again, mindfulness, I think, is a big issue, and that’s how I counsel. Eric 19:32 And I love this.

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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. And it was amazing just seeing the differences in how end-of-life care is managed at those three institutions, which were all a subway right away from each other.

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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. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor.

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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. And so there’s complexity in Understanding how each state manages this. They have an advance directive.

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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

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? That could include a robust home care plan to manage his symptoms. Key ingredients are both potentially unsafe and low evidence.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!) Even in the crazy hurried clinic space, the interesting thing, I have had two or three outpatient clinic managers email me that said, “I saw this narrative.” But wait, there’s a shiny new anti-amyloid drug, lecanemab! (No

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Even in the crazy hurried clinic space, the interesting thing, I have had two or three outpatient clinic managers email me that said, “I saw this narrative.” I just realized we haven’t had him on GeriPal. We need to remedy that issue, Eric. We need to get Harvey on GeriPal. You did write a blog post about him though, Eric.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. I mean, those articles didn’t get published in jama, so in journals, but we had qualitative. Eric 26:01 Curtis’s, he had a 2014 JAMA article on simulation. Corita 10:59 No, it was rather simple. No, no, no.

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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. It improves symptom management. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

This specific study , published in JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted in 17 ICUs in North Carolina. But you know, we managed to work it through and people got used to it and throughout the duration of the trial. Prior-auth forms? Examples of nudges, some based in health care, others in coffee. Many were community hospitals.

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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

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. As a managed care state also, our care managers in managed care for Medicaid could be 300 miles away. Eric: And Susan? Having that visual is really important.

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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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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

I had heard of course heard of imposter syndrome in the past but I didn’t make the connection to myself until I read this article and saw my thoughts printed on the page. Even declining to review an article for a journal is accompanied by some stomach knots (it’s so hard to find reviewers!) Well it helps you. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Jasmine, is it you? Jasmine 01:31 It is me.

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