The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Self-care and telemedicine for patients The options of teledermatology services, as well as self-care platforms, are soaring. It is a win-win for everyone: patients do not have to wait in crowded waiting rooms for an exam, while dermatologists can deal with the easier cases in shorter time online.

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Patients Healthcare Board-Certified Telemedicine 111

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary If you’re anything like me, you might find the process of what happens to patients when they visit a radiation oncologist somewhat mysterious. Anish 01:02 Well, I speak, you know, from a physician lens of some of the patients that I get referred, and by the time there’s. This is not a good option.

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Think about the last time a patient yelled at you in anger. Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? Ask why: What is underneath the anger for this particular patient? Taking care of the hateful patient.

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Patients IT Family Families 109

Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2022

I want to respond to the many strong emotions and fears expressed by many of my patients regarding the recent Supreme Court decision overturning of the Roe v. I try as much as possible to avoid political and polarizing topics with my patients because I recognize that we all have different beliefs, and that is okay. What Roe v.

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Family Physician Family Families Healthcare Professional 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

So I’m going to last longer in my position and I’m going to seek opportunities to grow and to help families and patients more and more. We’re just like, “Okay, I see this patient has a need. Jennifer Temel study did not have a social worker as part of the clinical team. Let me just fill right in.

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IT Family Families Clinic 102

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . This is both a research and a clinical interest of yours. Learn about using the low dose buprenorphine patch: . Low-Dose Buprenorphine Patch for Pain – Fast Fact. Learn about how to initiate buprenorphine: .

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

First, a clinician’s thoughts must be encoded into words, then transmitted often via sounds, and finally decoded back to thoughts by a patient or family member. Patient Values: Three Important Questions-Tell me more? Simple, right? Not so much, as each one of these steps is fraught with miscommunication. What else? Eric: Yeah.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 144

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient.

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Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So a couple weeks after it was published, I took a trip to a medical school in the western part of the country and I was visiting to think about their geriatrics research program, and they had a geriatrics evaluation clinic. And I met with the clinical pharmacist who worked in that clinic and she told me, “You know what?

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Along the way we address: Is this degree of slowed cognitive decline meaningful to patients or care partners? Eric: So patient narrative storytelling, independent of what we call it, I’d like to turn to both of you and just how you got interested in this as a subject. She was a heart failure patient.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Have you ever had that moment when talking to a patient, when you realized that the phrase you just uttered, which you’ve uttered a hundred times before, came out rote and scripted? And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? Summary Transcript Summary. Yeah, I’ve been there too.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Eric 04:44 Could just make you a little bit more resilient, you can increase your Rvus so you can see more patients. Naomi 04:59 So we know that we in healthcare, and all of our colleagues are some of the most resilient people that ever existed. If you were just. If you could make it, if we. Eric 05:27 80 2080 20.

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IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 110

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. In one room the physician under study interacts with a white patient-actor, and in another room interacts with a Black patient-actor. Amber: Thank you guys.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Healthcare 111

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. You’re a disgruntled medical student.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 104

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Liz wrote a fabulous perspectives piece in the NEJM titled “ Deciding on My Dimples ” which talks about her experience as a patient doing shared decision making during neurosurgery for resection of an astrocytoma. Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

We talked with Thor Ringler, who helped found the My Life My Story Project at the VA and beyond, and Heather Coats about the evidence base for capturing patient stories. It’s that mixture of intimacy and vulnerability, of shared clinical experiences, that fosters a sense of belonging. Today’s podcast is both similar and different.

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IT Community Patients Family 107

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. These studies are important. So, learn as many as you can and what they’re all about.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

How the act of drawing can help us sloooow down, pay attention to the people and world around us, and ultimately let go… The possibility of incorporating drawings in research and even clinical care. What is it about the images of the dying that helps teach medical students? I wonder why you did that. And I wonder, what is your.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Relationship 122

GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

Patient Poets: Illness from the Inside Out. So we are delighted today to welcome Marilyn McEntyre, who’s a longtime teacher of literature and medical humanities. I think it’s titled Patient Poets Illness. Marilyn: Patient Poets: Illness From Inside Out. Alex: Patient Poets: Illness From Inside Out.

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IT Patients Medical Illness 70

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

We discuss, among other things: Findings that in several studies AI was rated by patients as more empathetic than human clinicians (not less, that isn’t a typo). And I’d say, particularly in healthcare, where we’re not very good. The experience of both patients and clinicians isn’t very good.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

Rosanne: I think I was motivated by the number of times patients asked me to get rid of their pot-bellies, quite honestly. So I felt like over all these years I have learned so much from my patients and from the science, that it should be out there in one place where people can easily access it and help themselves.

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IT Healthcare Professional Healthcare Transportation 105

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Something that I’d very little experience of having been a medical student in Pakistan. Haider: And because it is so subjective and because we have these arbitrary rules around what the right patient with pain looks like, I think we really trap patients in a really difficult situation.

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Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 105