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. They're also called direct primary care (DPC) or personalized medical service providers. Contact Plum Health Direct Primary Care today!

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In this article a group of family practitioners from around the world, members of the World Organisation of Family Medicine’s (WONCA) Working Party for Mental Health, share insights into how doctors and other health professionals can look after ourselves and each other during this time.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Today we learn more about coaching from 3 coaches: Greg Pawlson, coach and former president of the American Geriatrics Society, Vicky Tang, geriatrician-researcher at UCSF and coach , and Beth Griffiths, primary care internist at UCSF and coach. We’re doing a lot of interactive relationship building. Beth: Thank you.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). Eric 16:36 Okay, Connie, I got one last question about your article. Eric 26:43 And this is in primary care, right? So we did primary care. Why is that?

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Edge Family Medicine

APRIL 10, 2025

Establishing a long-term relationship with a primary care provider can make a profound difference in how effectively your health is managed over time. Why Primary Care Relationships Matter A trusted PCP gets to know you — not just your chart. You’re not just another patient — you’re known.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Discover the Best Primary Care in Michigan As an experienced doctor who has worked with thousands of patients across Michigan, I can confidently say that finding the right primary care provider is one of the most important decisions you can make for your health. What is Primary Care? A family pediatrician.

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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

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. We’re doing a number of work. Not the patients?

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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 also I was in the HVMA primary care program. He’s in Boston. Eric 12:21 Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Eric: And in the article that’s being published in JAGS, you have multiple tables. I feel like geriatricians have a, maybe it’s more of a hate/hate relationship with NSAIDs right now. Ruining the patient doctor relationship because you get into a fight about what anti-coagulants should be on.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Today, we talk with Bernie Lo, prominent bioethicist and practicing primary care internist, and Laurie Dornbrand, geriatrician at the IOA On Lok PACE, about the legacy of Nancy Curzan. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Eric: Which brings us to an article. And so, we ultimately kept him on in palliative care clinic for a while. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Oh, you were?

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

To start with assessing all these syndromes and palliative care related problems and geriatric syndromes, so that we can create interventions that allow people to receive the cutting edge therapies. 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 15, 2023

Alex: And joining us via Zoom, we have Charlotta Lindvall, who is a palliative care physician researcher who studies the intersection of natural language processing and communication data at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, where she also works in clinical informatics. Is there a true relationship with that? Charlotta: Thank you.

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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? How did you think about this when you’re together thinking about writing this article? Eric 11:35 And let me ask you this.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. Practical strategies to overcome these barriers and enhance care. JAGS 2024 Nursing Home Palliative Care Referral Process, Barriers, and Proposed Solutions: A Qualitative Study.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

And man, I still remember those sessions, some of the most powerful learning experiences of my career as a palliative care doctor. There was a Stanford article talking about you as a pioneer in this field. ” And I wonder, how did you fall in love with palliative care? My question is, what article are you most proud of?

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. 29% (n=86) of the participants were undecided about getting vaccinated.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. Actually, it’s not really an article.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

As a general practitioner and primary care researcher, it was always fascinating for me to delve into the scientific literature to investigate this issue. The following graph shows the striking difference in premature mortality between countries with weak or strong primary care: 2. Here are the key results.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

Juliet, last time we talked to you, you were talking about shifting from advanced care planning to serious illness conversations. You’re a senior author on this article in JPSM, where you interviewed some geriatricians and other people caring for older adults, nurse practitioners, social workers, et cetera.

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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. We’re going to be talking about trauma informed care.

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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 I think overall, we lack the ability to truly sit with suffering together in medicine and palliative care, especially in the setting of COVID and caring for those that are dying. Eric 04:44 Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

So, for instance, would it have made a difference if, as a requirement in this study, every single emergency department who was eligible to be in the intervention had to have a relationship with a n inpatient hospice for which discharge was immediately available to an emergency department? No difference in their primary outcome.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

They need to become experts in understanding the biology of Alzheimer’s or all cognitive conditions and marry those two things because we are going to be either in the primary care clinic doing this or in the specialty care clinics doing it because geriatrics is in both. And we will have him on a podcast. Eric: Sharon.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Because I remember there was an article maybe six months ago in JAGS, maybe it was longer than that, everybody was talking about ChatGPT-3.5, And the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. Let me ask you a question. They had no idea. And they suck at it for a lot of reasons.

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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. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Sydney 00:41 Thank you.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

A review article, which I still like to go to. It is kind of weird that my first publication was in jama, part of the Care of the Aging Patient series. I mean, treatment is really best done in a chronic or continuity setting, whether it’s in a primary care setting or some other. Eric 11:14 Yeah, we go way back.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Here are some articles that Kira and I have written about the topic, and that’s really how my interest in addressing sexual health concerns started. There is a patient caregiver relationship that evolves over time, and there’s less of a focus on intimacy in that relationship. And I work right next to Don at the time.

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