Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Likewise, the National Institute on Aging developed a toolkit to help promote safe, effective exercise techniques for old er adults. Given practical constraints in many healthcare settings, who are the minimum essential team members for multidisciplinary management of weight loss in older adults?

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Management Primary Care Physicals Telehealth 52

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

The question I would ask is, how helpful is that in our clinical practice? So we put those cutoffs, and I asked the question earlier, how helpful are those cutoffs in clinical practice? And that was a common experience I had in my psychiatry training, was being called to the ER to see someone who’d come in with panic.

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

About half of patients who are over the age of 65 start dialysis with a GFR of over 9, which is sort of the level below which we have clinical trial evidence for suggesting that there may not be a benefit to starting at that level of GFR. I felt like more often than not, we erred towards dialysis because there it is. It’s easy.

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Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. I’m very proud of the work that we do every day and we take care of patients and families no matter where they live or who they are to help them meet their end of life goals. How do we make this work for patients and families?

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IT Provider Patients Family 113

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Why this study was a success due to the sheer size (nearly 100,000 patients in about 30 EDs) of the study, and the fact that, as far as the investigators know, all study sites continue to employ the clinical decision support tool. You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. Corita 00:30 Thank you.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Patients 77

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

And a doc over in Spain named Monica Lalanda, who is an ER doc and also a cartoonist, reached out to me and said you don’t have to do this anonymously. What are your thoughts about using humor to convey ideas, thoughts, clinical work? I was just thinking back to yesterday, we were in a family meeting. That blew my mind.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145