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. Both conditions can present with similar symptoms. And the presentation for GERD varies by age.

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Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. So delivering those month visits in clinic, often in tandem with their other oncology appointments.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Based on this surge in evidence, the American Society of Clinical Oncologists recently updated their guidelines for care of older adults to state that all older adults receiving systemic therapy (including chemo, immuno, targeted, hormonal therapy) should receive geriatric assessment guided care. Alex: How is your family doing?

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Can you come and be in our clinic once a week? It used to also be a social worker and myself who would actually go to clinic and spend some time up there. Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? I started our liver embedded liver clinic about seven and a half years ago.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Is it that they’re clinically depressed or that they’re understandably sad at the situation that they’re in or specific issues? They’re still engaging fully with their family and with the activities and the hobbies that they’re still able to do. It’s high, it’s too high. Eric: Yeah.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So let’s just say you have a healthy 55 year old or 65 year old in your clinic. So whether it’s 50, 52, 55, 65, we should ask every person who comes into clinic at least once a year, how do you feel like your thinking is? So I’m in a specialty clinic, so I’m in this interdisciplinary memory assessment clinic.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine. You started off as a physician, right? LaVera: Yes.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge. Alex 04:07 A heart failure clinic playing in the background. I think at the age of 91, a patient should have a say, really, in terms of, hey, I can present you with some of the reasons I think we should make a switch, but what do you think?

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Whereas the home with the low rate of feeding tube use involved families in decision making. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. Which is… In fact, I was approached by the Mayo Clinic recently.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. It’s hard for your family to know. It’s part of our family mythology. Like, should we be doing advance care planning? Is that right?

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

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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PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Do All Children Who Present With a Complex Febrile Seizure Need a Lumbar Puncture? Family history of febrile seizures. And let’s be honest, the term simple sort of undersells how scary this is for families. This is an important thing that we talk to families about. Ann Emerg Med. 2017 Jul;70(1):52-62.e6.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

The article “ American Doctors Are Moving to Canada To Escape the Trump Administration ” (May 30) presents us Canadians with welcome news. Walk-in clinics are overbooked, the emergency rooms at the hospitals all have overfull waiting rooms and doctors and nurses are doing 12-hour or longer shifts.

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