The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

The California-based firm, Second Sight , the German company, Retina Implant AG, and the French venture, Pixium Vision were the forerunners of the field, developing implantable visual prosthetics to restore vision to patients who are blind as a result of the rare condition of retinitis pigmentosa.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Milburn Smith Child Health Research, Outreach, and Advocacy Center at the Ann & Robert H. All healthcare professionals will have patients who are directly or indirectly impacted by the carceral system. People who are incarcerated are dehumanized and feel they are treated as inmates, rather than as patients.

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Vascular Physician

OCTOBER 26, 2021

What is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and How it Helps Heal Wounds Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy involves treating patients with 100% oxygen (O2) at elevated atmospheric pressures in a specially designed chamber. Most patients lie on their backs or sit up just slightly.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

Within medicine, we tend to hold white men from history books in high esteem, often without recognizing the dark legacy that accompanied their lives. Persaud’s initial article on Osler here ] Osler lived in the time of Numbered Treaties and the North-West Rebellion under Louis Riel, when Indigenous rights were front and center.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . Her most recent book is Creative Care: a revolutionary approach to dementia and elder care . She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief.

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Tiny Physician

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

A few days back, a video went viral on social media in which a resident doctor (a doctor who is undergoing post-graduation / PG doctor) was shouting at the bystander of a patient. For example, a PG doctor, while examining a case, will be asked to collect blood test results from the lab and to accompany a patient for a CT scan after that.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

Reynolds Blog Article Innovative medical practices thrive by embracing change, prioritizing patient care and learning from setbacks to enhance success and satisfaction. Neil Baum, MD Successful practices do not follow others; rather, they make their own paths and follow their own pathways and agendas.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 17, 2023

I even had my first Tessier #7 cleft patient and have experienced patients with things like Pierre Robin sequence and 22q deletion in real life now (previously it was all textbooks and videos). Somehow in between all the operating, I was even able to submit an academic book chapter and keep up with my academics as well.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If they’re a beginning fellow, that’s a very different coaching situation than coaching the chief medical officer or the president of a medical center. I think in medicine, in particular and probably in all clinical specialties, there is this sense of a rival fallacy of, “When I finish residency, I’ll be happy.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The many arguments, theories, & approaches across settings and conditions are explored in detail in the book they edited, “ Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care ” (discount code AMPROMD9). And they begin on today’s podcast with one clinical ask: everyone should be a generalist and a specialist. Like, what is this book?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

During this episode, we hear from Zahra Khan, an educator and editor who has written extensively on abolition in medicine, and Dr. Sayantani DasGupta, a physician-educator, prolific children’s book author and faculty at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. But watch out! Travel time can leave this champ vulnerable to fatigue and no-shows.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? And, David, I’m going to start off with you because you wrote an entire book about this. Eloise, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Do you want one? They just kept at it.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 31, 2024

In February, I decided to see what the hype was about, so on a weekend I wasn't on call, I worked all day Friday, came home around 8pm and went to bed, woke up after midnight, got dressed and made it to the club at 2am and got to see Jeezy perform front in center. I had definitely been missing out! That article can be read HERE.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Michigan residents have been buzzing about a primary care clinic that’s setting a new standard for healthcare across the state. Whether you’re in Detroit , Corunna , Lansing , Royal Oak , or Van Buren , this clinic is offering comprehensive care that puts patient well-being first. What Makes This Medical Clinic Different?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Welcome back, William. William: Thanks so much.

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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. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient. A few data based publication links from Person-Centered Narrative Intervention Program of Research: .

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

How, though, do we navigate anxiety and help our patients who may end up in the anxiety spiral that becomes so hard to get out of? Something I’ll often point out to patients is, you know, how do you identify your emotions? The question I would ask is, how helpful is that in our clinical practice?

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. Jenny reached out to us because she plays music regularly for her patients, and she said, you should do a podcast about music. And I performed for many palliative patients, and that’s when I started to understand.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So I think the first reason that we saw and felt the opportunity was ripe for updating was that some of us had come across some anecdotal examples of patients expressing some offense to that terminology. And I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive. Is the patient in your descriptor?

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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? Summary Transcript Summary. Yeah, I’ve been there too.

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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. Alex: Yeah, that means you could see more patients, right. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

If the purpose of initiating dialysis is improving function – our complex, frail, older patients are likely to be disappointed. Are we seeing people like more older adults, more nursing home patients starting dialysis, and even at a higher gfr? So I wonder if I could turn to either of our nephrologists.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

On today’s podcast we talk with Jason Karlawish, who we’ve had on previously talking about his book The Problem of Alzheimer’s and with Aaron Kesselhim, to discuss FDA approval of Aducanumab , as well as frequent guest and host Ken Covinsky. . She was a heart failure patient. The times, they are a changin’ -@AlexSmithMD .

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

First, a clinician’s thoughts must be encoded into words, then transmitted often via sounds, and finally decoded back to thoughts by a patient or family member. Patient Values: Three Important Questions-Tell me more? Simple, right? Not so much, as each one of these steps is fraught with miscommunication. What else? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

She covers topics on death, dying, and hospice from a hospice nurse perspective, and she also has a book coming out called “ Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully ,” which is now available for pre-order. Her book is called Nothing to Fear. Julie McFadden discloses an employee relationship started on 15Apr2024.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Our focus today, however, was on her most recently published book titled How to Say Goodby e. This beautiful book began as a very personal project for Wendy while she was the artist-in-residence at Zen Hospice. About 25, maybe even 30 years ago, at the Zen center in Green Gulch in Marin. She has a TED talk.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. The patient’s capacity to make decisions was marginal, and his sons were shouldering much of the responsibility. Dear listeners, if you have a podcast idea, feel free to reach out to us.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. We each had an average between 23 and 25 patients each.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Clinicians were randomized to 4 groups: Usual care Prognosis nudge – EHR prompt asking, do you think your patient will be alive in 6 months?

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 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

APRIL 13, 2023

But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients? Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? Dr. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We have the new geriatric surgical verification process where they’re, I think now eight or so level one geriatric surgical centers with 40 more somewhere in that process of becoming certified. And I met with the clinical pharmacist who worked in that clinic and she told me, “You know what? Do you have it?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. And who’s a latest book is Dignity and Care: The Human Side of Medicine.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In his book The Hour of our Death Philip Aries described a long evolution in western civilization of cultural attitudes towards dying. More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Eric 04:44 Could just make you a little bit more resilient, you can increase your Rvus so you can see more patients. It’s really not about helping the patient or physician. link] ** NOTE: To claim CME credit for this episode, click here ** Transcript Eric 00:09 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. If you were just.

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