GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Alex 00:30 And we’re delighted to welcome Alison Huang, who’s a primary care doc and researcher and professor of medicine, urology, and epi-biostats at UCSF in the division of General Internal Medicine. I’m an internal medicine physician. We prescribe medicines. Alison and I go way back.

IT 120

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 120

GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Should do medicine?” ” Because I loved internal medicine. But I would say that in terms of education, it’s really complicated because it’s so confounded by socioeconomic status and so many social determinants of health. I was a psychobiology major, surprise, surprise, one of the first at Yale.

Physicals 85

Physicals IT Hypertension Education 85

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. I think I certainly have had a lot of friends and colleagues in internal medicine who are so fearful that, oh, if I get this definition wrong, I’m going to cause some harm. I wonder why?

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

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. There are lots of people involved.

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. The intervention itself is very straightforward.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

And as things sometimes happen in surgery, patients can experience complications and one complication, particularly in someone who’s frail, who’s not buying the cabbage, maybe they’re buying the chard at the farmer’s market. Alex 44:45 Mm hmm.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 106