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. Waldrop, MD , and colleagues identified barriers to obesity medications more broadly—and potential solutions. They published their insights in Nature Medicine.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Alex: And we have Kevin McConeghy, who is a clinical pharmacy specialist at the VA Medical Center in Providence, and a PhD candidate at the Brown School of Public Health. Eric: So an educational component potentially going on there. Welcome, Ariel. Ariel: Thanks. I’m excited to be here. Kevin: Thank you.

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Specialization Medical Patient-Centered Provider 104

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Jennifer Temel study did not have a social worker as part of the clinical team. Eric: … social work-led research, social work-led clinical program. It’s a first Department of Health Social Work in a medical school in the country. How much of this is around the evidence base that we’re generating?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

And now my program of research is around testing that person-centered narrative intervention or PCNI because you have to give them an acronym in healthcare. I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that. Working with our clinical decision support team and thinking about where that could be.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

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. Ashwin 18:08 These are things that we often see from a clinical standpoint.

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IT Patient-Centered Screening Patients 66

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. Clearly this issue is important to patients. Sharon, welcome to Jerry Powell.

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