The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

So, with this chapter, I hope to briefly touch on the basics of market investing and describe why simple diversification and index fund investing are the most effective ways for busy clinical physicians and healthcare providers to invest with the expectation of long-term gains. Don’t try to beat the market; be the market.

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ABIM

APRIL 24, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Dr. McDonald explained that the LKA provides MOC points for questions answered correctly, but since ABIM is not an accreditation organization, it does not offer CME credit.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

” “Whether you’re the call center agent, the receptionist, [or] the lab tech, you participate and you provide the input into innovation,” said Dr. Nguyen. The Southern California Permanente Medical Group is one of the largest medical groups in the nation with more than 8,800 physicians providing care for over 4.8

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Alex 00:36 And next we have Connie Fung, who I know well through the Beeson community and is a physician, researcher, professor of medicine at UCLA. We’re starting to adopt them as well for different cultural communities. Could have been people weren’t seeing their providers. Amy, welcome to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities. And that led to many specialists doing work and advancing their fields within their professional societies, providing guidance and so on for older adults. difficile infections. Lona: Absolutely. Was there a difference Sonali?

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The role of lifestyle and dietary modifications in management. Management of gastritis and the consideration of Helicobacter pylori infection. Join me as I scope out the nuances of gastroesophageal reflux and gastritis and provide practical insights for clinicians in the emergency setting. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. And yet, after assisting the older adult to their feet, the EMS providers would leave. So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

In the United States, extreme weather events and air pollution are already costing the healthcare system over $820 billion annually. Without closing this gap, healthcare systems everywhere will struggle to meet rising demands, especially in vulnerable communities where climate change is accelerating inequality and suffering.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Trauma is a universal experience, and our approach as health care providers to trauma should be universal as well. So there’s an event or a series of events. So there’s an event or a series of events. Kate 04:53 As well as how they cope with that event.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of. those experiencing homelessness).

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Between routine care, medication management, and patients who opened up about their mental health struggles, it was clear that a strong baseline of trust had been established. As I am interested in becoming an abortion provider and continuing to be involved with Maine Family Planning throughout my career, this experience was very meaningful.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This office is tasked with providing aging policy research and recommendations within ASPE, including long term care and the National Alzheimer’s Project Act. How HHS and ASPE solicit input from clinicians, community leaders, and older adults and how much it impacts policy decisions (spoiler alert: this involvement is CRUCIAL).

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. Michele: Yep.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We provide critical education. We provide critical conversations with colleagues and families to coordinate transition planning.” So pacing strategies for breathlessness in different patient conditions, repositioning and different pain management modalities for pain and different end stage disease. And oh, guess what?

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address it. Alex 00:20 Today we’re delighted and honored to welcome Eduardo Bruera, who is one of the biggest symptom management gurus, if not the biggest symptom management guru in palliative medicine.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

So if you haven’t been to this event, there is a literature review where we. Ken 12:14 I’ll remind you, Nancy, that this is an honor for companies that manage to make lots of money despite having a product that’s worthless or doesn’t. Alex, you’ve probably penned about 50 songs, which is also amazing.

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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. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. So at least in my oncology community, I really didn’t have anyone guiding or supporting or mentoring me. ” Right?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This tool provides a clinical recommendation for starting/stopping medications and cancer screening based on the prognosis of the patient in front of you. So these are really relevant outcome events. So we provide a range of these clinically meaningful benefits. See screenshot below. You can either access it directly here.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38129210. Kleinman, A.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Our volunteers are starting to take over ownership of this program, so we’re kind of like building a team to help kind of maintain it, manage it, and make sure that everything’s on the up and up with it. And we’re. We’re sort of. Theresa 19:34 So you’ve hit on something really interesting there with the vinyl.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Many were community hospitals. At one end of the spectrum you can provide decision makers with information that doesn’t work very well in most contexts. The events are conditions that’ll be set into place unless some active choice to the contrary is chosen. Participants were critically ill and intubated.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

When we protect our kids from the dangers of gun violence, the whole community stands to benefit. In our current environment, it can feel overwhelming as a healthcare provider to discuss firearms. Nonjudgmental communication is key to this conversation. Ultimately, secure gun storage prevents kids from accessing guns.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? And we found out in our work that something like 70 or 80% of patients with dementia who have surgery come from the community, who are coming from home. What does it mean for functional status, symptom management, location of care? Samir: Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I must admit, though, sometimes it just feels off… inauthentic, as if it’s not a genuine desire to improve our lives as health care providers, but rather a metric to check off or a desire to improve productivity and billing by making the plight of workers a little less miserable. It was hard to keep my balance. Alex 43:44 Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community. Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. Lindsey: Thank you so much.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Leslie Wharton is a leader in the 26,000 member grassroots organization Elders Climate Action , which organizes older adults to create communities engaged in making a difference at local, state, and national levels. What do we do to very concretely provide heat shelters and cool shelters?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So at our cancer center, we have physicians, advanced practice providers. Jennifer 20:48 We don’t, you know, our palliative care team here in the outpatient setting is only physicians and advanced practice providers. So, for example, the intervention visits had to be delivered by a physician or advanced practice provider.

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BMJ

JUNE 25, 2021

Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000780. 2–5 These drugs are usually taken over long time periods to prevent cardiac events, yet little is known about the long-term effects on all-cause mortality. 16 Figure 1.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

One of the worst ways is you have a community of people who’ve paid into Social Security their whole life, paid into to support Medicare their whole life, and don’t live long enough to see the fruits of that. I would love to get the geriatrics community to say, “Age is just a number.” Not true, actually.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

To the deeper emotions – of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence – that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. Look also for a forthcoming article by Mike and Redwing in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management on poetry as a healing modality, to be published mid May (will add link when out). AlexSmithMD .

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. Eric: We’re going to be talking about loss and grief and the role of debriefing for healthcare providers. Turns out, it’s maybe not.

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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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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. It’ll provide you with like a percentage estimate of probability of nursing home level of care at two, five and ten years, and also the median predicted time to nursing home care.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Dangerous changes loomed: To compensate for tax cuts for the wealthy, Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill and budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 threaten to curtail Medicaid, which provides health coverage for people with low incomes and disabilities. “But I am grateful that I am part of a community that will not bow down.”

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