East Cary Family Physicians

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In this blog, we’ll explore the importance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, focusing on early detection, prevention, and the vital role of regular screenings in women’s healthcare. We encourage all our patients to perform monthly self-exams. At East Cary Family Physicians, we believe that knowledge is power.

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Vascular Physician

JULY 18, 2022

Fortunately, there are methods to repair an aneurysm, depending on where it's located, how it's shaped, and the overall health of the patient. As a result, the aneurysm could very well rupture and result in life-threatening bleeding, just as if a balloon that was filled with too much air is likely to pop. What Is Involved in the Repair?

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Family Physicians of Greeley

MAY 17, 2023

In this blog, we will explore effective strategies for improving mental health and nurturing a positive mindset. If you struggle with sleep difficulties, consider implementing relaxation techniques or consulting with a healthcare professional. Maintaining good mental health is essential for our overall well-being.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 24, 2023

NAD found that while claims in healthcare professional facing advertising had a reasonable basis, similar claims in consumer-facing materials constituted inappropriate comparative superiority messaging.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid). Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. Step four is adjusting it for your patient. How do you do that?

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FDA Law

AUGUST 16, 2023

And before CooperSurgical, another 2021 Warning Letter was issued to AcelRx for the infamous “Tongue and Done” tagline used to promote a Schedule II controlled substance subject to a REMS program that requires a healthcare professional’s precise placement of the drug using a single-dose applicator into the patient’s sublingual space.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

This simple challenge was focused on putting ourselves in the shoes of our patients with dysphagia who are prescribed thickened liquids. Eric: Well, before we talk about dysphagia and revisit it, which is also interesting, because this is our first podcast, I think on dysphagia, but we’ve talked about it before on GeriPal, in our blog.

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FDA Law

MARCH 16, 2023

The inclusion of a requirement to test twice over three days with at least 48 hours between tests is consistent with study findings from the National Institute of Health published in 2022 ( LINK ); however, it is not clear if this proposed use case is practical for “point-of-care” outside of an in-patient setting.

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FDA Law

APRIL 13, 2025

By Sarah Wicks & Dara Katcher Levy FDAs Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) issued its second Untitled Letter of 2025 to Taiho Oncology (Taiho) for a healthcare provider branded website for its drug LYTGOBI (futibatinib). Mirati) about a healthcare professional branded website for KRAZATI (adagrasib).

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

Rectal method is more appropriate for infants, children and unconscious or comatose patients who are not able to hold the thermometer in their mouth. The choice of method depends on the patient’s age, condition, and preference, with rectal measurements often being the most precise for infants and young children.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient.

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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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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Along the way we address: Is this degree of slowed cognitive decline meaningful to patients or care partners? Eric: So patient narrative storytelling, independent of what we call it, I’d like to turn to both of you and just how you got interested in this as a subject. She was a heart failure patient.

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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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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. Learn about using the low dose buprenorphine patch: . Eric: And why Under Pressure.

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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? Bill: Thank you. Was it April 1st?”

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. In one room the physician under study interacts with a white patient-actor, and in another room interacts with a Black patient-actor.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. Liz wrote a fabulous perspectives piece in the NEJM titled “ Deciding on My Dimples ” which talks about her experience as a patient doing shared decision making during neurosurgery for resection of an astrocytoma.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Have you ever had that moment when talking to a patient, when you realized that the phrase you just uttered, which you’ve uttered a hundred times before, came out rote and scripted? And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? How can I get the patient to make a decision? Josh: Mm-hmm.

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We previously blogged on FDA’s September 2022 guidance exempting and excluding specific naloxone transactions (e.g., mistakenly administered to a patient who is not experiencing an overdose), and (3) an Rx-to-OTC switch for NNS will save lives.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 18, 2024

OASH concluded that “there is widespread current experience with medical use of marijuana in the United States” by the licensed healthcare providers for which “such medical use is recognized by entities that regulate the practice of medicine” in these states.

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FDA Law

JUNE 8, 2022

Althera Pharmaceuticals, LLC would have been wise to follow this advice in formulating its professional piece for healthcare professionals for ROSZET (rosuvastatin and ezetimibe) tablets, for oral use ( here and here ). ROSZET is indicated to reduce cholesterol in certain groups.

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FDA Law

MAY 5, 2024

OASH concluded “there is widespread current experience with medical use in the United States” by licensed healthcare providers for which “such medical use is recognized by entities that regulate the practice of medicine in these states.”

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

In further contrast to the United States, MAID in Canada is almost entirely administered by a clinician, whereas in the United States patients must self administer. And importantly the patient has to have capacity and they have to be able to take the drug themselves. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. But that was separate from MAID.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

A NY Times article titled Should Patients Be Allowed to Die From Anorexia ? That’s how do we treat the mental health needs of patients with serious medical illness? So in those cases, can we adopt an approach to mental health care that centers primarily around quality of life of patients and their families?

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FDA Law

AUGUST 21, 2023

After all, the labeling is intended to do exactly that: it informs patients and prescribers of the risks to ensure the product is used effectively and in a manner that mitigates risks, according to FDA’s understanding of the relevant science. FDA went so far as to issue a proposed rule (see our blog post here ), that ultimately went nowhere.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

It’s emotionally hard, but it’s also rewarding because I have such a meaningful life, especially when you see the family members of the patient are so grateful that you’re there. And they’re my family and the patients here and the doctors and the nurses. ” He was hardcore. Jeff: G1 is a hospital wing.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Recently, discussion has emerged about how these issues intertwine in caring for patients with advancing dementia who have stated that they would not want to continue living in that condition: for those with an advanced directive to stop eating and drinking, how do we balance caring for their rational past self and their experiential current self?

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

We discuss, among other things: Findings that in several studies AI was rated by patients as more empathetic than human clinicians (not less, that isn’t a typo). I remember walking through San Francisco Airport with Bob, we just happened to be there at similar times, and saying, “Eric and I are thinking about starting a blog.”

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Give too much, it may cause harm (even if the higher dose had no significant side effects, it would require patients to take a lot of unnecessary additional pills as well as increase the cost.) So, what is the effective dose of palliative care? Give too little – it may not work. This is Eric Widera. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on.

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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. Rosanne: I think I was motivated by the number of times patients asked me to get rid of their pot-bellies, quite honestly. Rosanne: I certainly do.

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FDA Law

MAY 21, 2024

OASH concluded “there is widespread current experience with medical use of marijuana in the United States” by licensed healthcare providers “operating in accordance with implemented state-authorized programs, where such medical use is recognized by entities that regulate the practice of medicine under these state jurisdictions.”

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

This podcast was initially sparked by Josh’s “Note From a Family Meeting” Substack post titled “ Ambivalence in Clinical Decision-Making ,” which discussed Bryanna’s and Jenny’s 2022 article titled “ Two Minds, One Patient: Clearing up Confusion About Ambivalence.” AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Josh, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion center? He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. Eric: So not from the patient perspective or family, but from the provider perspective? Doing home care? Hospice visits?

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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

Bob: Well, it changed how I helped talk to people who are seriously ill and it acknowledged some of the feelings that I have and helped me be more aware of those feelings when I’m taking care of patients. Bob: It’s a little bit like patient care, right? We’ll start a thread to this blog post. Eric: Yeah.

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