GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

And then I met a patient in clinic once who asked me a lot of really intelligent questions about medical cannabis, what it does. And you could say the same thing about insurance companies. Insurance companies will pay for a lot of drugs that have really not a whole lot of evidence at a lot of costs. They just kept at it.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? Is this our role?

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

FDA is considering approval, shifting away from Schedule I restrictions, paving the way for use in clinical practice. And some people in studies and just in clinical use have found that to be helpful, including for patients with serious illness. If you put on your clinical hats, what is demoralization to you? What is this?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). What do they do?

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

For example, putting the healthy food at the back of the grocery store is sludge; making an applicant for health insurance climb the flight of stairs to the office – weeding out those less fit – is also sludge. We didn’t make them do anything with that information, just document it. Prior-auth forms?

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So they were a lot of preoccupied with other tasks, but clinical gestalt. And that came down a lot of times to asking the provider whether they felt they met criteria and then also looking to see if they had the financial, like the proper insurance or things like that. Kathleen 20:36 Right. It didn’t seem like from.

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MARCH 7, 2024

And then, I did a lot of introspection and realized that I’ve actually been doing this for folks in an informal way, family church members and friends, but I didn’t do it so well with my own mother. ” I spent 32 years in information technology, would you believe, and switched over to this full time a few years ago.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

There are clinics. But if the services that they require aren’t able to be provided within, they have Health Net as their insurance, so we contract with specialists in the community. Michele: So the patients within the Department of Corrections, there are doctors at every facility.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

And you say, “Okay, that’s fine, but can it really … What about a real live clinical situation?” I think we’re getting closer to real live clinical situations, not just answering a test. maybe eight or 10 months ago, “Please write a prior authorization to the insurance company.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Susan: Yeah, I don’t think the word even surfaced.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. I know Elizabeth has a lot of information about the way to structure the mediterranean diet. Eric 18:14 Elizabeth, how do you bring it up in your clinic? Anna 07:06 Thank you.

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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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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I could walk down the hall and get information. So IU, we have been able to convert our paper, Chris Callahan paper that was published in 2006, the first clinical trial that was positive. Within two years we converted to clinical program serving in a safety net healthcare system, 50% African-American, 6% dual eligible.

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