GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

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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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 74

Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

This information can help pinpoint possible causes of illness and guide further investigations. Importance of Physical Examinations Physical examinations also play a significant role in diagnosing health conditions. Using these methods can reduce temperature discomfort and minimize complications. And I do this regularly.

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Diagnosis Management Illness Diagnose 130

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. Frequently Asked Questions What is the definition of a clinic?

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Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. Eric 04:49 Drew me to the field physics and math. Usually that will include the physical exam, but also the type of imaging that would be helpful for us to have to guide what would be next steps. Anish, can I ask you why you went into radiation oncology?

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

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. Infections or allergic reactions can block your airway and lead to life-threatening complications.

ER 52

ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 115

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body. But it’s this physical sensation that comes along with these ideations.

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

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. Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. ” Alex: Interesting.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. I mean, to me, the Buddhist concept that there are multiple forms of suffering, like there’s the suffering that’s due to pain and physical symptoms. We have to be honest.

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IT Family Families Physicals 137

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

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. And one of the hardest things is to distill it down to a sentence or two about what is information, what does it mean? This is a complicated case.

IT 132

IT Illness Family Families 132

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And I love the podcast that we did because it really highlights… We pride ourselves in palliative care, and focusing on physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

And it’s with this information from the geriatric assessment that we can really create interventions, and so that’s something that Alex and I strongly believe that we should move forward with. And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it.

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Charlotta: Yeah, I think it will be in reducing the need to spend so many hours on documentation and looking through the EHR for information. And what we are seeing in our research is that, we’re working on GPT four, is volunteering information that we didn’t ask for. The information there and you limit it in that way.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And so I was driven by the fact that I needed more information, and so it sort of became my clinical focus as well as I dabble in the research. They are complicated.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the frame, taking people out of their academic selves and into a more informal conversation. A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. Relationships are usually more complicated.

IT 97

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

Patients that remind us of loved ones, patients that are often younger, really hard stories, complicated issues. The whole idea of holding hope seems also so much more complicated for younger people because the hopes that they had, the normal hopes are not likely to be realized. What are the patients that we remember? Abby: Yeah.

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IT Family Families Illness 83

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

I appreciate that information. Eric: So this is a complicated pathway, right? You’re trying to include information from symptoms in a population, also in a geriatric population that may have multiple reasons going on. Lots of information in there. Eric: Did that information change your practice at all?

Management 122

Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. On bias and trauma as you.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

Eric: But if we’re using organ donation example, there are really no physical benefits for the organ donor. As a provider, as somebody who has to constantly look whether or not somebody’s boosted and when is the next boost, our EHRs are disjointed, fragmented, doesn’t give us the information we need.

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Vaccination Individual IT Healthcare 88

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications? I think the two spaces it comes out of, one is informed consent, which is this idea that people need to have an understanding of their disease and treatment. Gretchen: Absolutely.

IT 128

IT Family Families Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And as a resident, I just was drawn, similar to many oncology clinicians and fellows, to just be traumatic and difficult experience of patients with blood cancers during prolonged and intense hospitalizations, where they experience a lot of physical symptoms, emotional trauma related to the diagnoses. And those two are closely aligned.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. It’s complicated because right now there’s no mechanism other than cost avoidance. I don’t want to misspeak because now I forget.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

They need, they need some, a little bit of information and probably a little more than that, what we like to call an edge. Because we know information provision, I think it was the support trial, even giving them information about poor prognoses didn’t change their practice. That gets really complicated as well.

Consulting 99

Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 99

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But what I tell them is, keep yourself physically active. Keep yourself physically as active as possible. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

Illness 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. And a moral compass that’s informed by understanding that the world isn’t the way you see it necessarily. That the wish to… Eric: Complicated. Harvey: Complicated. She died at the age of 55, and was born with cerebral palsy.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

So it’s a five component scale and it includes slow gate speed, weak and grip strength, exhaustion, unintentional weight loss, and low physical activity, which I really like thinking about those components. I think it’s really, really complicated. That’s a great question. Julien: I like this question. Absolutely.

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice. 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. Eric: Bored, thinking about- Dani: Feel helpless. Eric: Yeah. Dani: Yeah.

Patients 109

Patients IT Family Families 109

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information. And in fact, after a complicated ethics issue, we will oftentimes go in and try and debrief them. And it bothers me how the nurses are there, the physical therapists are there, some of the social workers are there.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

FDA Law Blog

MAY 21, 2024

and its abuse may lead to only moderate or low physical dependence or high psychological dependence. For each factor, the NPRM noted that DEA’s position is that additional information during the rulemaking will further inform about the appropriate schedule for marijuana. 21 U.S.C. § NPRM at 44,607. Basis at 61; NPRM at 44,615.

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Physicals Medical Clinic Emergency Room 69

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

That was the lesson I learned from reading a new book edited by Matt Loscalzo along with Marshall Forstein called “ Loss and Grief: Personal Stories of Doctors and Other Healthcare Professionals ”. These debriefings create a safe outlet for health care professionals to talk about the feelings resulting from their work.

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Healthcare Professional Healthcare IT Relationship 102

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Don 13:50 Well, you know, I think one of the issues, though, when you ask about prevalence data, especially, say, in the oncology world, not only does it matter about how you ask the questions, but because it’s such a complicated topic, people may infer very different things as to what you’re talking about. Sharon 15:21 Right.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. Eric 05:50 Yeah. Eric 13:29 I love that.

Family 106

Family Families 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. It was information about our ACP facilitator. So we have to collect what information we have available from Health Information exchange and electronic health records.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? You don’t have to make this decision because we have this information right here.”

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98