PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Secondary hypertension is the more common cause of the two and is related to renal, cardiac, pulmonary, oncologic, endocrine, or autoimmune pathologies, in addition to medication side effects. 3 mg/kg/hr; onset of action is less than 5 minutes, and the duration of medication lasts between 2-6 hours. Labetalol dosing: 0.2-1

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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. David: Right.

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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. Hey, it’s National POLST Collaborative now. Good to know.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

An end-of-life doula is a non-medical support person that provides a longitudinal relationship with aspects of medical, I mean, aspects of companionship, presence, holding space, some logistics, some practical help, decision making perhaps. It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary I hear the word dignity used a lot in the medical setting, but I’m never sure what people mean when they use it. Medical Assistance in Dying and Palliative Care: Shared Trajectories Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Very excited to be here. Tamra, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

They are recruiting for a Medical Director of Palliative Care Services to lead and grow innovative outpatient and inpatient palliative care programs. So we’re going to be talking about palliative care for individuals with mental illness. Again, what we should focus on is improving your quality of life and maybe non medical ways.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. The black individuals wanted to have a separate one from the white individuals. And resource utilization was very low in all the groups.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

I was always critical care bound since medical school. I’m controlling everything your placebo versus medication trials. That gets really complicated as well. Alex: It gets very local and individualizes as you were saying. Kate: So it was a little windy path. That’s purely pragmatic. Kate: That’s right.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And then secondly, around some of our quality measures, there’s been differences found in multiple papers by many teams around hospice disenrollment, higher rates of hospice disenrollment in for-profit hospices, and higher rates of healthcare utilization. There’s also been some differences in things like staffing.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Tom: So we did this study because patients who go through the stem cell transplant process face a lot of misery in terms of physical symptoms, psychological distress, anxiety, depression, and even a risk of PTSD afterwards, sort of like a medical trauma, you might think of it. I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The world of diets and dietary theories is complicated and can be overwhelming. However, people need to understand what works best for them individually. Let me explain why food enters the bloodstream, and blood is what creates your cells, tissues, and organs. Food has the power to regenerate the new you!

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