Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

What practical strategies would you recommend for implementing resistance training in community or home-based settings? For older adults, the YMCA’s Silver Sneakers Program is a fantastic community resource. Many older adults may have limited access to training facilities or experience with resistance training.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

” Related AI scribes story: Analysis: AI scribes save physicians time, improve patient interactions and work satisfaction Dr. Nguyen also highlighted the potential to utilize artificial intelligence and Kaiser Permanente’s extensive medical database to develop predictive analytic models aimed at enhancing patient care.

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ABIM

APRIL 24, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Dr. Johnson led a discussion with the Rheumatology Board on community practice in rheumatology to create a more inclusive understanding of its role and scope.

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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 . It is a heavy load and yet I think all of us here think that it can be lighter when there are supportive programs and community engagements in place. Summary Transcript Summary. What would it take to transform dementia care? Transcript.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

So, with this chapter, I hope to briefly touch on the basics of market investing and describe why simple diversification and index fund investing are the most effective ways for busy clinical physicians and healthcare providers to invest with the expectation of long-term gains. Most clinical physicians are busy.

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CDOCS

MARCH 15, 2021

Patients depend on our clinical knowledge as well as our recommendations and relationships with our specialist partners.</span></span></p> & We participate within our dental community in educational meetings and events, which builds our trust in the specialist. .</span></span></p>

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. Alex 00:36 And next we have Connie Fung, who I know well through the Beeson community and is a physician, researcher, professor of medicine at UCLA. However, the DANTON study adds more questions to that conclusion.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We have a discussion about the decision to remove race, a social construct, from clinical risk calculators (though I’m not 100% sold that race should always be removed – if removal is likely to worsen disparities for example – at least until a superior race-blind calculator can be developed). Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

It depends on the clinical situation. Summary Transcript Summary. A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid). How do you do that? Do you do what I do, pull out a handy-dandy opioid equianalgesic table to give you a guide on how much to convert to? . Oh boy, what should we do?

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

To this end, FDA recently announced the publication of a guidance titled “Considerations for Long-Term Clinical Neurodevelopmental Safety Studies in Neonatal Product Development,” (the “Guidance”). This guidance finalizes a draft guidance issued in February 2023. What factors should be considered when developing a long-term safety study plan?

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical. Alright, let’s scope things out.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Highlight how structural racism against Asian-Americans surfaces in clinical settings, and describe means of counteracting such structures. Understand how engaged community-based work, centered on trust and accountability, has supported the health of communities served by Oakland, CA’s Asian Health Service.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. Their job was done.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

FDA is considering approval, shifting away from Schedule I restrictions, paving the way for use in clinical practice. Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events. Ethical issues , including colonization of psychedelics by big pharma.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, and LJ Van Scoy argue that diverse communities are asking for ACP. Sarah Nouri gives an example from her work in the LGBTQ+ community of a trans woman who was buried as a man because existing laws/rules did not protect her wishes. But before we jump into that topic, I think somebody has a song request.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This tool provides a clinical recommendation for starting/stopping medications and cancer screening based on the prognosis of the patient in front of you. Think of the 10 years it takes to benefit from colon or breast cancer screening, which is designed to detect slow growing cancers. See screenshot below. James: Thanks for having me.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

In the United States, extreme weather events and air pollution are already costing the healthcare system over $820 billion annually. Without closing this gap, healthcare systems everywhere will struggle to meet rising demands, especially in vulnerable communities where climate change is accelerating inequality and suffering.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How HHS and ASPE solicit input from clinicians, community leaders, and older adults and how much it impacts policy decisions (spoiler alert: this involvement is CRUCIAL). There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities. How to make your voice heard and get involved.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. So there’s an event or a series of events. Here we go.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

This is not highly scripted orchestral music, people, its Jazz. -S And I was fortunate to record an episode of my medical mixtape with Tyler at the w hich meeting were we at, Tyler ? Tyler 01:12 AHPM. We were in Denver. Alex 01:15 AHPM. So check that episode out. Check all the episodes out. It’s a terrific podcast, Tyler. Welcome, Tyle r.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It’s that mixture of intimacy and vulnerability, of shared clinical experiences, that fosters a sense of belonging. We definitely draw on the sciences, on biomedical science, on clinical trials, on pharmaceutical design and all sorts of things like that. There’s something magical that happens in small group storytelling.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

So if you haven’t been to this event, there is a literature review where we. Annie 02:31 So if you go to the A G S meeting every year, you know that this group of three individuals comprises the AGS literature update. So this is something. This is the plenary to attend. It is a sold out crowd. Of course. We will step aside. Go Cubs, go.

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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. Ann Henshaw is an occupational therapist who works clinically at Georgetown and teaches at GW. Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Ann Henshaw who brought this podcast idea to us.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Eric: So we’re going to be talking about the intersection between structural racism and ageism, but before we go into that topic, Ramona, I think you have a song request for Alex. Ramona: I do. It’s called A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke. Eric: And can you describe why you picked that song? Alex: Thank you. I love this song.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

MOC Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.75 MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. We also talk about the eligibility for the unit, what makes it run including the interdisciplinary team and the inmate peer workers, and the topic of compassionate release.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

I also spent one day at the Maine Family Planning clinic in Augusta, shadowing the head clinician, Lindsey Piper, NP. I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to shadow the head nurse practitioner at the Augusta clinic. As a full spectrum physician, Dr. Der Simonian cares for patients throughout all stages and walks of life.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As Alex Lee says on our podcast today, all prognostic models will be wrong (in some circumstances and for some patients); our job is to make prognostic models that are clinically useful. As Sei Lee notes, the argument for developing prognostic models has won the day, and we increasingly use prognostic scores in clinical decision making.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Well-being committees are popping up at every level of an organization. And C-suites now have chief wellness officers sitting at the table. Eric 01:54 Why’d you pick this song, Naomi? Naomi 01:57 Because it really talks about this beautiful experience of our beloved, which is ourselves, the part that we often cut out of the equation.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Many were community hospitals. We’re going to be talking about a JAMA IM paper that just came out not too long ago, a nudging clinicians promote serious illness communication for critically ill patients. Examples of nudges, some based in health care, others in coffee. Participants were critically ill and intubated. Where was it?

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 9, 2024

Livornese — The Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act (“FDORA”), enacted in December 2022, added a requirement that sponsors submit Diversity Action Plans (“DAPs”) for certain clinical studies involving drugs, biological products, or devices (codified at 21 U.S.C. § 355(z)(3) and 21 U.S.C. 360j(g)(9)(A)). population demographics.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

So at least in my oncology community, I really didn’t have anyone guiding or supporting or mentoring me. Jennifer’s study is most widely known for the “kicker” – not only did it improve quality of life, palliative care was associated with a couple months longer survival. . Alex: Can’t tell…maybe a little bit.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

We need this type of push to make us feel that we are part of a community and we are part of a movement and things are changing because we are around. Summary Transcript Summary I always find cachexia in serious illness puzzling. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eduardo, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia. Before we go into this topic, who has a song request for Alex? It was Remember Me. Was that the title? Alex: I think it’s I Will Remember You. Joel: Yeah, right, I Will Remember You, right. Alex: … Sarah McLachlan.

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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. It’s great to be here.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

How the act of drawing can help us sloooow down, pay attention to the people and world around us, and ultimately let go… The possibility of incorporating drawings in research and even clinical care. Some highlights from our conversation: The role of art in humanizing the dying process. Sit down and draw each other for only one minute.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. This is Eric Widera.

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