Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. Fever in infants under three months, a fever lasting more than three days, or a fever in individuals with weakened immune systems should be promptly addressed by a doctor for appropriate management and treatment.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I actually wrote a blog post about this when we were a blog. We were a blog? Alex: And, it means pain management. I’m most proud that when we started the blog, there was some tension between Geriatrics and Palliative care. ” I think we started the blog in 2007 or 2008, we were doing that up until 2016.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 127

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. 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 how am I going to manage their pain? Two great videos on buprenorphine initiation. Transcript.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 103

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. ” Somebody in the comments on their blog response said, “Did you check the date? We just had Harvey Chochinov on.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago. Jessie: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

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. I started blogging as a patient, just talking about my own story online like patients did back in the day. So unlike academic journals and elsewhere.

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FDA Law

MAY 5, 2024

The White House Office of Management and Budget will review the rescheduling proposal. Xochitl Hinosa, Justice Department Director of Public Affairs, confirmed that Attorney General Merrick Garland signed off on DEA’s proposal stating, “Today, the Attorney General circulated a proposal to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III.”

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. You did write a blog post about him though, Eric. 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.” A few Dignity Therapy- Harvey Max Chochinov links. SPONSOR:

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And then when I did residency in internal medicine first, there was just a lot of focus on a lot of heroic management in the ICU that didn’t always appeal to me without thinking about what the morbidity might look like. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor. Ken Covinsky wrote about it for GeriPal.

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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. So it’s a lot of palliation. I gotta get some sleep.

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 102

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

You did write a blog post about him though, Eric. 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.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 106

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). The last time we had you on the podcast, Bill, you talked about your cancer diagnosis and a personal experience with MAID, which you also, we’ll have a link to your blog post too about this as well. Eric: Thank you Bill.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I wasn’t able to really fully recover from that, from a relational standpoint, and as best I could do symptom management along the way. Not a lot of blogs out there. It was surprising how much of a blow that carried to the relationship. And then she ended up being discharged home and dying. Eric: I’m switching 180 degrees.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 102

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

And I actually shared that story with Bonnie’s manager and she just thought it was pretty cool that the whole thing had come full circle, the song that she was inspired by them and then they were so moved by the song that she wrote. Listen to the podcast and do what you can to help these people, especially those who are dying in prison.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. Thaddeus 39:58 That’s how she decided to manage it. Thaddeus, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Thaddeus 00:46 Thank you. Is that right, Hope?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 21:31 Blog post, if we’re talking about the same study, was like, fast food palliative care, in and out palliative care, something like that. Or the article that, the fast food article, to use the parlance from the blog post. It’s not just about physical symptom management. This is Eric Widera. We’re what?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

FDA Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

We blogged on the December 5, 2023, letter from six Democratic governors to President Biden). Thousands of doctors in the 38 states that permit the medical use of cannabis recommend marijuana to their patients and millions of patients consume medical marijuana under healthcare professionals’ guidance each year.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

He basically is talking about people who got promoted to senior management. Bob: And how they sucked at senior management. The things that made them really good salespeople, made them really bad senior managers. We’ll start a thread to this blog post. Sounds like this is what this book is trying to do. Eric: Yeah.

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