Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

Cost-sharing and education may improve access to GLP-1 therapies for obesity, but systemic barriers remain, requiring broader policy and clinical reforms. Healthcare Professionals Among healthcare professionals, potential barriers include lack of education, safety concerns, and obesity stigma/weight bias.

Healthcare Professional 52

Healthcare Professional Insurance Manufacturing Healthcare 52

My Green Doctor

APRIL 4, 2025

Earth Day 2025, Part 2: Why Your Voice Matters in the Environmental Health Conversation As we prepare to celebrate Earth Day 2025 on April 22, healthcare professionals, clinic administrators, and medical teams have a unique and powerful role in shaping how patients and communities engage with sustainability and environmental health.

Healthcare Professional 52

Healthcare Professional Healthcare Community Medical Advice 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended?

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. But we’re not perfect individuals.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

If somebody’s dealing with a chronic pain and multiple chronic diseases, they have an opioid use disorder and we get referred that patient to a palliative care clinic is that in our Bailey wick? Is that something we’re doing? Are we mainly thinking about in people with advanced cancers?

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

These are patients who had a pre-existing chronic disease, very broadly defined. COPD, heart failure, solid oncology, hematologic malignancy, dementia, ALS, interstitial lung disease, several others. Eric: I think about it as the first one to address individuals’ curative therapy. Kate: These are very sick patients.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 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.

IT 116

IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116