Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Weight loss programs for older adults also benefit from co-management by an interdisciplinary team that may include a geriatrician, an obesity medicine specialist, an endocrinologist, a registered dietitian, a bone metabolism specialist, a physical therapist and an exercise physiologist.

Management 52

Management Primary Care Physicals Telehealth 52

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. I am not a board certified. I’m a doctor.

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

We need to strike it from our vocabulary and leave sort of a gap in the clinical vernacular about how we talk about life-sustaining treatment. It’s such a physical act, showing just how strong doctor’s moral resolve is to save a life. And yet, it’s so hard to be able to draw a boundary.

Illness 136

Illness IT Patient-Centered Family 136

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

I would talk about this, except I was a clinician, and I’m seeing these folks in the hospital and in clinic. The journal section’s requirements are the same as for a clinical investigation. Folks who were first homeless after 50, there was an event, and usually those events could be described in one of four categories.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health IT Community Individual 123