The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. However, things are moving fast, and success doesn’t come easy for the pioneers of any medical field. The drug helped decrease the initial healing from 5 days.

Diabetes 98

Diabetes Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Unlike appointments that address specific illnesses or injuries, preventive care visits focus on screening for potential health issues, assessing your overall wellness, and helping you establish healthy habits before problems develop. Evidence-based screening tests based on current medical guidelines, your age, and risk factors.

Preventive Care 100

Preventive Care Preventative Care Appointment Screening 100

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

GeriPal post on “fast food” style palliative care in chronic critical illness. Areej: So when I was in college, I had a close friend who had a serious illness and actually died as a result of cancer. And so I went into medical school wanting to cure cancer. Additional links: Editorial on Areej’s study. Transcript.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And we have Scott Halpern, who is Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and Director of the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center or Payer Center at the University of Pennsylvania. So now it’s just POLST, the word POLST, Portable Medical Orders. We changed our name. Alex: National POLST Collaborative.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 127

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. You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. Did I get that right?

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. Eric: Well, Terri and Emmy, thank you for joining on this podcast. How did you both get interested in this as a topic? They’re really not.

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Family IT Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. Because the in serious illness care and care for older adults, their care is often very complex. And maybe there aren’t medications or procedures, but there could be some early interventions that perhaps could slow down the disease course.

IT 100

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 100