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10 Tips to Find the Best Diabetes Doctor for Type 2 Diabetes

Dr. Zaar

Diabetologist: A doctor who specializes in diabetes (sometimes used interchangeably with endocrinologists). Certified Diabetes Educators (CDE): While not doctors, they play a key role in diabetes education and lifestyle support. Certification shows they’ve completed specialized training and passed rigorous exams.

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

GeriPal

If you’re going to be talking to the brand new intern on the service, or the chief executive of the hospital, are there some themes or similarities to how you’d approach that in the mentoring, sorry, not the mentoring, the coaching process? Never took the boards because I was on the writing committee, which was really weird.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. Many also suffer from distressing symptoms like pain. What do we know about.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Brooke Calton, who is a palliative care physician and faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is also newly the Medical Director of palliative care at Devoted Health. Because pre-pandemic, right, there was issues with you had to be boarded in the state, right?