The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Researchers say that the implant cannot provide any highly detailed vision – but it can help patients detect distinct patterns such as door frames and shapes. The journal Nature provided a commentary report on HKUST’s research into the bionic eye. The paper, recently published in PLOS , summarises three years of data.

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AMMD

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The average age of a breast cancer diagnosis has statistically been around 65. If you’ve recently received a DCIS diagnosis or know someone who has, what are your options? Conventional Detection and Diagnosis Conventional medicine diagnoses about 90% of DCIS during mammograms. Breast Cancer, as are all cancers, is on the rise.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Joe 03:55 You know, my thoughts are screening is important for a variety of reasons, and certainly Doctor Boris and Soo and Anna, Doctor chodos can provide a lot greater clinical insight than I. There has to be effective support provided behind any type of screening strategy in order for it to truly be effective. Joe, your thoughts?

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Differentiating these pathogens based on clinical presentation is crucial for targeted management, minimizing unnecessary diagnostic tests, and optimizing healthcare resources. Common Complications : Otitis media : Diagnosis is supported by the presence of a bulging tympanic membrane with purulent effusion.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It’s Lona Mody who is a translational infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System. Our first guest is a repeat guest.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 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

JUNE 8, 2023

-@AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of life care Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex Smith: This is Alex Smith. Is that your experience?

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

In case you have missed it, click below to read- FEVER FAQ- Part 1 Fever Diagnosis: How is your health assessed? When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. Understanding the patient’s medical history is crucial for an accurate diagnosis.

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Dr. Michael Bazel

AUGUST 8, 2024

Knowing the difference can help you seek the right treatment and avoid unnecessary complications. When to See a Doctor While mild UTIs sometimes resolve on their own, it’s essential to consult a healthcare provider if: Symptoms persist or worsen after a few days. However, not all urinary symptoms indicate a UTI. What is a UTI?

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Mesa Family Physician

MAY 8, 2025

These visits help catch illnesses before they become more serious, reduce healthcare costs in the long term, and improve overall quality of life. By investing time in preventive care, you’re helping reduce the burden on the healthcare system while ensuring your own physical and mental resilience. Annual Physicals: Covered or Not?

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. They also provide immunizations and lifestyle advice tailored to your specific needs.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. This requires emergency treatment.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 7, 2025

Routine cholesterol screenings help assess your risk for cardiovascular disease so you and your healthcare provider can better understand your overall heart health. Some healthcare providers may recommend yearly screenings for patients with high cholesterol or underlying cardiovascular issues. bad” cholesterol HDL a.k.a.

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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.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 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

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. Eloise 10:29 Yeah, I think what we saw in California was, prior to legalization, there was curiosity, but also a lot of their healthcare professionals didn’t know enough about it, so they didn’t discuss it with them. Is that your feeling, too? Alex 12:33 Sure, sure.

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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. It’s Lona Mody who is a translational infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Our first guest is a repeat guest.

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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.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In general, the case is a patient who wound up with a new diagnosis of metastatic cancer during the course of the admission and at a certain point had full capacity, was able to make decisions and communicate. Eric: And just for our listeners, can you briefly describe the case? Lynn: Sure. Anne Rohlfing: Yeah. Eric: Yeah, I love that too.

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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. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Rethinking Automation and Inequity in Healthcare [link] [link] [link] MD Calc approach to inclusion of race [link] —— Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? Greenwall Foundation Bill Stubbing lecture Are Robots Racist?

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. Joel: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We are delighted to welcome Jane Euler, who is lead doula and co-founder of Present for You, which is a benefit LLC company that provides doula support at the end-of-life. We are doulas for those with serious illness and those at end-of-life, just a longitudinal relationship, nonmedical support to provide presence. Jane: Right.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

By diagnosis? Kate: You just embed it into routine care and workflows, and you really aim for a broader population,, outcomes that are routinely collected care that can be provided in the course of routine care, and not trying to manipulate and control all of the factors. That gets really complicated as well. Kate: A diagnosis.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

I wonder from a provider perspective, if you’re open to talking about your team. Patients that remind us of loved ones, patients that are often younger, really hard stories, complicated issues. Eric: Yeah. From a personal emotional perspective, what do you think makes it hard? Nick: Such a good question. It was incredible.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

Elise 07:02 So healthcare workers for sure. And for many years, I think there was a focus on physicians and then providers. So the first thing, explain the diagnosis. Gordon 12:01 One absolute right answer to all these questions, and we will provide that. This is a complicated case. Take the courses.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

For example, we once thought that the lower urinary tract was sterile, but we now know it has its own microbiome, which may even provide protection against infections. Eric: And then as we talk about Venn diagrams, probably the most common reflexive thing that providers do when they hear about lower urinary tract symptoms is they check a UA.

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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.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Alex: We are honored to welcome Dr. Rajagopal, who goes by Raj, who is the author of Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Healthcare. The reasons are tied to the basically poor healthcare in low and middle income countries. It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. Healthcare industry cannot do it.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. I think that there are some really great for-profit hospices out there that are actually able to provide more services and more open access for patients. And then at the regional level-.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Before we talk about miscommunication, would love to hear briefly from each of you, how or why did you get interested in this topic at all just around patient communication, patient-doctor communication, patient-provider communication. Abby: I’m going to use Alex’s words from before, that’s really complicated.

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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. The model is predominantly physicians, advanced practice providers. I have oncology on the brain.

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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?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This episode of the GeriPal Podcast is sponsored by the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Division of Hospital Medicine , which is committed to providing outstanding, compassionate care to all patients, advancing health equity, and fostering excellence in hospital medicine.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I think that policy in the emergency department is showing that no matter what that provider is looking to see if a patient has a preference. Gretchen Schwarze like surgery, four things, live longer, feel better, be more functional, make a diagnosis. It would have a CPR section and then it would have a healthcare proxy section.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

I wish they were just a diagnosis. I recently had this patient in clinic who, for complicated reasons that I won’t go into, our outpatient clinic had to put limits on his frequency of visits with me. And I think limiting the visits really triggered a deep sense of abandonment in him from a provider that he felt attached to.

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AMMD

APRIL 1, 2025

Technically, no… but it’s a little more complicated than that. While these can help temporarily, they rarely provide lasting relief. Pairing that with the enzymes in Candifense provides a comprehensive, synergistic approach to restoring healthy gut microflora. How do you know whether it’s candida or something else?

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