The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

For anyone gravitating towards personal finance and physician finance content, discussions around intelligent investing in stocks and bonds are relatively commonplace. We are a collective profession of high-earning and driven individuals. However, we are often inundated by recommendations to invest in real estate. Remember that.

Management 52

Management Finance Individual Education 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 14: Race, Place, and Health: Clinician and Community Perspectives Show Notes by Alec Calac February 15th, 2022 Summary: This episode highlights how racism manifests in the built environment, and how community and individual-level efforts can mitigate these inequities. Be curious.

Community 52

Community Individual Mental Health IT 52

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

It does seem that if communities, particularly historically marginalized communities, are interested in ACP, that fact should carry some weight in how resources are allocated to research and health care financing. So am I measuring it for that specific clinic level quality metric or am I measuring it for my research study?

Community 95

Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 95

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

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

My favorite line from Emily’s paper: “Geriatric assent has not been widely adopted in clinical care, but bioethicists should advocate for this, as adoption of partial-involvement strategies can prolong the period in which individuals are (appropriately) engaged in decisions about their health care.” This is a clinical intervention.

Families 97

Families Family Patient-Centered IT 97

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? So usually they’ll make recommendations, maybe some medication adjustments or something like that, and then the provider that’s caring for them in house will take over from there. I mean, there’s a workforce shortage of palliative care providers.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

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. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Well, I’m a geriatric nurse practitioner and I provided care to over 800 nursing home residents in 11 different nursing homes. Ruth: Sure.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 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. Sometimes people call them health shocks, but we kind of all, like, clinically, intuitively know what these things are. Has really changed.

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. And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. ” We put together a clinical pilot study.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115

FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Currently, individual Medicare Part D plan sponsors negotiate rebates but the government is explicitly prohibited from interfering in those negotiations. The Plan supports legislation to expedite market entry of biosimilars and generics by providing federal support to develop nonprofit generic drug manufacturers.

Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing Supply Chain Patient-Centered Utilities 98