Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

We need to better understand the guardrails around safe cannabis use and educate the healthcare community and patients. It’s more complicated than that. Participants provided urine samples on the day of scanning to detect recent use. We need to engage in conversations about what can harm and what can help.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Those big claims “seem to get on the insurer’s radar,” said Casey Schwarz, senior counsel for education and federal policy at the Medicare Rights Center. Costly claims may trigger an insurer to examine someone’s coverage. ” The Department of Labor didn’t respond to a request for comment. .”

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We are a collective profession of high-earning and driven individuals. With a significant portion of our income now free from the shackles of educational debt, we can entertain new ways to invest our earnings and grow our wealth. I understand the incentive, sure. Like so many of you, I have little background in real estate investing.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. One of your articles addresses that.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Rather, it can change the bleeding phenotype from severe hemophilia to mild hemophilia – thus potentially reducing the risk of complications. An increasing number of children and adolescents with hemophilia A are on Hemlibra, and therefor the purpose of this post is to educate and raise awareness. This is a black box warning.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

I know this is like, we’re talking about math and so that makes it all a little complicated, but think about it this way. I really am not buying that it’s too complicated to do A over B, equal C over D, if you know three of the four variables. And then again, individualizing it to the patient. Delighted to be here.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

And individual practice styles are fine. This thread from a 2015 post illustrates how varying needs of a child with ulcerative colitis call for different ways to connect: Take Luke, a school-aged child with moderate ulcerative colitis complicated by sclerosing cholangitis. The problem comes with call and cross-coverage. Pretty simple.

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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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CDOCS

APRIL 7, 2021

<p><span style="font-size:14px;">Dental technologies are constantly being developed, and each clinician must decide which innovations best fit their individual practice needs. Some other uses for CBCT are when I sense complicated anatomy, resorption, perforations, or instrument failures.</span></p>

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Certainly education, quality of education is extremely important. Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health. Like, education, is it that it prevents you from getting Alzheimer’s disease, or does it just give you more reserve so Alzheimer’s peeks out later?

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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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FDA Law

JULY 10, 2023

These AI requests often address complicated scientific scenarios in which a submitter has already provided some information, but FDA is not completely satisfied. if additional testing is required or justification would suffice), responsible individuals, proposed timelines, and any clarifying questions for FDA.

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FDA Law

MAY 17, 2022

But even before the House Energy and Commerce Committee acts, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee held a April 26, 2022 hearing on UFA reauthorization. During that hearing, FDA’s Patrizia Cavazzoni, M.D. and Peter Marks, M.D., in response to questions posed by Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Bill Cassidy, M.D.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

During my training, I didn’t receive much education about radiation oncology, and I’m not entirely sure what some of the terms mean (hypofractionated means fewer sessions, right?). Anish 07:54 I would say sort of echoing what Emily was just referring to is education is key. So I think education is key.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Red flags that you should always ask about include hematemesis, melana, dysphagia, and Unintentional weight loss, these all need further investigation for complications like esophagitis or another diagnosis such as EOE or peptic ulcer disease. If any of those red flags are present, you should definitely consider a further diagnostic workup.

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Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 28, 2024

Therefore, it is my practice not to prescribe intentional weight loss and instead focus on improving each patient's health with an individualized approach- by addressing underlying health conditions, social, and lifestyle factors affecting health- regardless of weight. But it is in my opinion the ethical and medically appropriate approach.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Between 2007 – 2019, Black individuals experienced a higher death rate for opioid overdose deaths than any other racial or ethnic group. These narratives have vilified individuals who would benefit from comprehensive, person-centered substance use treatment, rather than incarceration and other adverse harms.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

Push back against individual narratives that blame individuals for systemic injustice. Dr. Kushel detailed how the use of dehumanizing language equates to complicity in a narrative that systemically harms our neighbors with lived expertise in homelessness. Push back against dehumanizing language.

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Community Patient-Centered Emergency Room Medical 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 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 26, 2022

They argue that the current guidelines, which prioritize immunocompromised people and unvaccinated older people on the same level, should be re-done to prioritize the immunocompromised first, and additionally move up older vaccinated individuals or vaccinated persons with comorbidities. What’s wrong with that? Why not prioritize them?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. One of your articles addresses that.

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.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 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.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. But I think then the other factor in this that makes it complicated is the decision for someone in Manhattan might be very different than the decision for someone in, like, rural Wyoming. Alex: Yeah.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

You can either get one little individual canister of nitrous, or a big canister which costs about 120 to 120. Further complicating matters is that each inhalant has its own special risks. So pediatricians, Educators and parents all play a crucial role in prevention. Students should be educated about the dangers of inhalants.

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Complication Patient-Centered Management Patients 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Second, as we discussed in last week’s podcast , older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, were far more likely to die than younger individuals. It can influence education systems. So I think you can see how there’s a lot of work to do among multiple sectors within healthcare, including education and training.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It’s very challenging from a hospitalist standpoint because I think there’s definitely a population of people who are not educated well about what are the outcomes when people go to subacute rehab, who benefits from that. We provide critical education. Sarguni: I hear what you’re saying and I struggle.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

My favorite line from Emily’s paper: “Geriatric assent has not been widely adopted in clinical care, but bioethicists should advocate for this, as adoption of partial-involvement strategies can prolong the period in which individuals are (appropriately) engaged in decisions about their health care.” This is Eric Widera. Not anymore.”

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. But yeah, it’s complicated. The one thing that we know is that education alone will not actually deliver behavior change. You’d have to tailor it to each individual emergency department because you couldn’t. And it was like 29eds. Is that right? Yeah, yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

We did another nudging trial where the deep default was for default palliative care consultations for high risk patients, and it significantly increased individuals who were receiving palliative care. We tested two different nudges individually and then we combined them. And especially that requires a lot of education.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 118

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. We’ve done work with medical improvised, we’ve done work in museum based education. This is a complicated case. Eric 40:08 Great.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 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

MARCH 6, 2025

Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Today we discuss: What is the best terminology?

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Alex: It’s complicated. We, for very complicated reasons, ended up with niacin. I’ve met individuals in, let’s say indigenous communities and Columbia, they have longstanding uses of psychedelic plants and some of them are not interested in outsiders learning these ways and having access to these substances.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Or is it just this lingering practice of starting dialysis early before really severe complications develop? So we created these heat maps where you could see for each individual what actually happened in the days and you. Alex 06:10 Or having watched that John Oliver episode about DaVita, we will have a link. And we have these.

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Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 117

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Although, certainly when you start facing complications of serious illness, it is increasingly important to engage as individuals and conversations about goals, values, and preferences. And trying to translate this very complicated process into a universal means of acting at a complex time in life is really, really difficult.

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Andrew complicates this definition , stating it raises more questions than answers. So I think the examples that we’ve seen is an individual will all of a sudden start using humor in a particular way or will using wry humor and that is reminiscent of the kind of humor the person used prior to developing dementia. And the Clin.

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