The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

True we have a fulltime nanny, but we still both work full-time clinically and still wish to have a steady hand in our children’s lives. Second, we have had some unexpected transitions at my job, and this has left me to cover extra clinical obligations with some consistency. Keeping a personal finance blog is a tricky thing.

Finance 52

Finance Education Family Families 52

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.

Primary Care 95

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As Alex Lee says on our podcast today, all prognostic models will be wrong (in some circumstances and for some patients); our job is to make prognostic models that are clinically useful. As Sei Lee notes, the argument for developing prognostic models has won the day, and we increasingly use prognostic scores in clinical decision making.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. We found their physical environment was drastically different; where those with low feeding tube rates had really a rather beautiful physical environment. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

But from our clinical work, many of us are familiar with people with dementia who experience sudden shocks to their health, think hip fracture, think hospitalization for pneumonia. Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? And the government can do something about that?!?

Illness 93

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How is it financed and what comes next? 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 put together a clinical pilot study. Bruce: Sure.

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115