GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would.

IT 102

IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. Relationships are usually more complicated. I am not a board certified. I forgot about.

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And they should be forced by doing research, followed by translating research into practice and continued education of a wide variety of individuals to then care for our aging population. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. So you’re right.

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JULY 11, 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.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Instead, what if your surgeon told you that the operation she was discussing could help with only 4 things: live longer, feel better, prevent disability, or obtain a diagnosis? And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications?

IT 128

IT Families Family Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. I have oncology on the brain. Alex: Okay. I have two followup questions I have to ask here.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We’ve done work with medical improvised, we’ve done work in museum based education. So the first thing, explain the diagnosis. Your patients expect you to care for them, their mental well being, their physical well being. This is a complicated case. What should I say? So you got to be better than AI.

IT 132

IT Illness Families Family 132

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Here are a couple of articles if you want to do a deeper dive: Dani and colleagues article on Psychiatry and Palliative Care: Growing the Interface Through Education. It’s one of the core things that we think about palliative care is you got the physical, psychological, social and spiritual symptoms. I sound smart.

Illness 101

Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 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.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. All guests agree that clinicians feel they need to have something they can do if they open Pandora’s box. And I said, sure. We haven’t really talked about this.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

JULY 25, 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.

Families 106

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But the process of implementing this project across two big health systems in our area was very complicated and had its share of both challenges and rewards. There’s also education that goes with it, educating, like, what does that mean? The intervention itself is very straightforward. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) .

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. And then, it did, finally, come to an end, but the hospital-at-home community was able to educate policymakers.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

An inspiring leader and educator of the next generation of physicians, Doctor Wible has been named one of the 2015 Women Leaders in Medicine and the “Physicians Guardian Angel.” It’s just a trash can label—not really even a diagnosis, a made-up term that is used as psychological warfare on physicians to control us. Is that true?

Clinic 246

Clinic Nurse Practitioner IT Medical 246

GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Ken Covinsky reminds us that we should not be making a diagnosis based on what we see on TV, and that if a patient’s daughter expressed a concern that their parent “wasn’t right,” we would conduct an in depth evaluation that might last an hour. Of note, we talk about candidates from all parties today. There is a tension.

Diagnosis 141

Diagnosis Diagnose IT Physicals 141