Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

During the examination, healthcare providers assess vital signs, such as heart rate and blood pressure, and look for physical signs of infection or illness. While mild fevers often resolve on their own, persistent or severe fevers warrant professional evaluation. What are the Management and Treatment Options in a case of fever?

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Diagnosis Management Illness Diagnose 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 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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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. And which of those experiences would you like to share with us that we could then write into a story that we’ll share with providers? So it’s a very scary culture for people who are not in healthcare. A few Dignity Therapy- Harvey Max Chochinov links. SPONSOR: .

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Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We previously blogged on FDA’s September 2022 guidance exempting and excluding specific naloxone transactions (e.g., Many states already have standing orders that allow for the dispensing of naloxone without an individual prescription and other public health initiatives to increase naloxone access.

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Supply Chain Healthcare Professional Community IT 64

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. And that’s a lot easier if all providers were X waivered too.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

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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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

And which of those experiences would you like to share with us that we could then write into a story that we’ll share with providers? It started here at Madison at one and it’s also spread outside the VA now to hospitals in Boston, Providence and now starting up actually in California and UCLA and UCSF. Alex: Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

FDA Law Blog

MAY 5, 2024

Houck — The Associated Press reported on Tuesday following confirmation by five anonymous individuals with knowledge that the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) is moving to reschedule marijuana from schedule I to the less stringently controlled schedule III. By Larry K. 30, 2024).

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Medical Manufacturing Physicals Healthcare Professional 95

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. My entree into healthcare is not in the academic space at all. Liz: That’s right.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 96

FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

Recall that the funds provided under the Prescription Drug User Fee Acts (PDUFA) are not available to support the agency’s efforts related to monograph drugs.) Most OTC drugs, particularly drugs that have been around for a while, are primarily marketed pursuant to OTC monographs.

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Manufacturing Consulting Healthcare Professional Vaccination 40

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This episode of the GeriPal Podcast is sponsored by the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Division of Hospital Medicine , which is committed to providing outstanding, compassionate care to all patients, advancing health equity, and fostering excellence in hospital medicine. Oh, yeah, yeah. Good artist. Really tasteful.

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Back then we were a blog and Ken’s post, which is titled, Survival from Severe Sepsis: The infection is cured, but all is not well, is still one of our most viewed posts on Jerry Powell. We try to make that point because it speaks to especially ICU providers, we know how bad that is. Ken Covinsky wrote about it for GeriPal.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As we’ve written about on GeriPal when we were a blog (a decade ago!) And so the control room is a contiguous room, but the individual rooms where the patients, the actors and the doctors are separated by a wall. And so she was able to validate that their nonverbal communication was very different within an individual physician.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. In the individual clinical encounter, that’s a lot of what we do. Not a lot of blogs out there. It’s challenging. Not a lot of Substacks.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So at our cancer center, we have physicians, advanced practice providers. They had access to the cancer center resources, but they didn’t have access to sort of regular contact with palliative care mental health professionals. Or the article that, the fast food article, to use the parlance from the blog post.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

So this week we’re going to be talking about writing for the lay public, and next week we’ll be publishing a podcast on writing for healthcare providers. And then I feel like when I’m in clinic I’m helping individuals, and you only have so much time to help so many people. Rosanne: I certainly do.

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IT Healthcare Professional Healthcare Transportation 105

FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The three letters together provide the range of actions DEA may take: no rescheduling from schedule I (former drug officials), rescheduling to schedule III (Democratic state attorneys general), or descheduling altogether (Democratic senators). (We We blogged on the December 5, 2023, letter from six Democratic governors to President Biden).

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Medical Healthcare Professional Community IT 59

FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Otsuka did not provide a citation for the 62% claim but may have used the placebo-subtracted difference in least-squares (LS) mean change from baseline (difference between 8.4 Notably, Evofem provided considerable context around its 99% claim. and 5.2 = 3.2) divided by the average baseline score of 27 to get 11.85%. and 5.2 = 3.2)

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Healthcare Professional Provider IT Patients 59

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? Using data from wearable devices, internet searches, and purchasing history?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 108