GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Alex 00:12 We have a guest host who has requested this episode, Matt Shuster, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc. He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. He’s in Boston. Alex 04:47 Probably was, yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 3, 2025

We’ve invited two palliative care doctors to talk about survivorship with us: Laura Petrillo , a physician-researcher at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Laura Shoemaker , an outpatient palliative care doctor at the Cleveland Clinic. Alex 00:03 This is Alex Smith. Great to see you guys.

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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. I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So the data relating to the number of geriatricians in this country, salaries in comparison to hospitalists or primary care physicians. And I met with the clinical pharmacist who worked in that clinic and she told me, “You know what? And finally the big thing was the match. We don’t have a geriatrician.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Joel: The Brigham and Women’s Hospital likes me to say that too. Alex: And the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And she was rushed to the hospital. And they agreed on that and they talked to the people at the hospital, the surgeons and the nurses. They stayed in the hospital for longer. Joel: Oh yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It’s that mixture of intimacy and vulnerability, of shared clinical experiences, that fosters a sense of belonging. Alex 00:40 We’re delighted to welcome Alexis Drutchas, who is a palliative care doc at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and co founder, also of the Palliative Story Exchange.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there. There are clinics. Everybody has a primary care doctor, a primary care nurse, a team.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have. And so you could say that’s sort of starting the normalizing that process of advance care planning. And I would say too, as a primary care provider, it really doesn’t take that long to ask people about a surrogate decision maker.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

As a general practitioner and primary care researcher, it was always fascinating for me to delve into the scientific literature to investigate this issue. The following graph shows the striking difference in premature mortality between countries with weak or strong primary care: 2. Here are the key results.

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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?” And the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. I think we’re getting closer to real live clinical situations, not just answering a test.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 4, 2025

The episode emphasizes thoughtful, individualized care in the context of rising vaccine hesitancy and declining immunization rates. Unfortunately, timely clinical question, what do we do with the UN or under vaccinated child who presents to the emergency department with fever? So what are we gonna go over in this episode?

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 17, 2025

Researchers whose funding was stripped said they stopped clinical trials and other work on improving care for people with HIV, reducing vaping and smoking rates among LGBTQ+ teens and young adults, and increasing vaccination rates for young children. health care system and academia. NIH grants routinely span several years.

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