The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

The company works closely with a continuously growing number of insurance companies in Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, the UK, in the Netherlands among others, as well as with companies offering this service to their employees. VisualDx is an excellent source for diagnostic clinical decision support.

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Patients Healthcare Board-Certified Telemedicine 111

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Jessie: Yes.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.”

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Families Family IT Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

This is both a research and a clinical interest of yours. But that just didn’t really resonate with what I saw clinically which was that there was lots of suffering both in the patient, their family and on the clinical team and just felt it was really this space where I didn’t have a lot of evidence to guide me.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). What do they do?

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Because I don’t come from a clinical background, so I have a whole different set of language in the way I approach something than someone with a medical background. Our folks all die of congestive heart failure and dementia, even oncology diagnoses with new immunotherapies like the old days. Is that right, Jane? Jane: Right.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

And you say, “Okay, that’s fine, but can it really … What about a real live clinical situation?” The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. They had no idea.

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Electronics IT Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Sharon Bober, clinical psychologist at DFCI, notes that clinicians can get caught in an anxiety cycle, in which they are afraid to ask, don’t ask, then have increased anxiety about not asking. And it actually came up during a clinical encounter that I had. So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. So that’s I think diagnoses. But it was also later on in the disease. Diane: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Drawing from her experience running a physician suicide helpline , she speaks candidly about the emotional toll of assembly-line medicine , the link between overwork and doctor suicide , and the revolutionary joy of reclaiming your career by launching your own ideal clinic. I was in a big-box clinic. Housewives were burned out.

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Clinic Nurse Practitioner IT Medical 246

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

That’s focused on older adults who are too frail to get into clinic. In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. We relied on our clinical experience as geriatricians, that home-based primary care experience. Bruce: Sure.

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115