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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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. So say you have somebody new diagnosis, you’ve just put them on Metformin and something else, and you slap a CGM on them and they can see it. It maxes out.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

They also provide immunizations and lifestyle advice tailored to your specific needs. It creates a continuous health history that benefits both you and your provider. They're designed to provide quick, efficient medical attention for conditions that require timely care but aren't life-threatening.

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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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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. But watch out! That’s what I’m waiting for, Alex.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

By diagnosis? And palliative care was as a program was just growing at Penn moving from just consult hospice to actually having a team when I was training. I have never myself called a palliative care consult as a trainee because we didn’t have one. And I practiced both on the palliative care consult team and in the ICU.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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. Eloise is a palliative care NP at Stanford and co-founder of The Radicle Health Clinician Network.

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Knowing that the community is really underrepresented in sort of our knowledge, what we do, how we provide care that’s truly inclusive and welcoming. And this is for all of us, that when we’re going into this space of providing inclusive and affirming care, it really starts out with humility, because there’s a lot to learn.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 81

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

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. They’re asking you for a consultation. What should I say? So you got to be better than AI.

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IT Illness Families Family 132

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. And then we were involved, palliative care was consulted when the patient was really sick and decompensating in the ICU.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 97

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? I think the AI can allow for that complexity but still provide some guidance. So there’s some stuff out there like that, but also using AI to determine who at high risk and should get a palliative care consult. Eric: Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . And that’s a lot easier if all providers were X waivered too. Learn about using the low dose buprenorphine patch: . Low-Dose Buprenorphine Patch for Pain – Fast Fact. So here we go. A little bit of under pressure.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

I wonder from a provider perspective, if you’re open to talking about your team. I think that as everyone is already starting to allude to, I think that there’s this in between space with adolescence and young adulthood that falls between our two areas of pediatrics and adult provider work. Eric: Yeah. It was incredible.

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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

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

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? It can help prevent disability, or it can make a diagnosis and that’s it. We hope you enjoy this episode. And that’s how we connected.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. And Katie, as an advanced practice provider, is much better than I am at explaining how this works.

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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. And that led to many specialists doing work and advancing their fields within their professional societies, providing guidance and so on for older adults.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But, you know, I’ve talked to a lot of palliative care providers, a lot of people caring for people with serious illness. I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. Like if a person has an issue, struggle with alcohol, I’m not their alcohol provider, but I may be their opioid provider.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

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. Eric 12:11 And we consult psychiatry.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. Michele: Yep.

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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. Joel: Yeah. We put a lot on the surgeon here. Yep, for geriatrics?

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. When we think about palliative care delivered here, like individuals with chronic pain, non-serious illness chronic pain, non-life threatening illness, oftentimes if we get consulted on them, we don’t even see them, may just be discontinued in most palliative care places.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

I wish they were just a diagnosis. And I think limiting the visits really triggered a deep sense of abandonment in him from a provider that he felt attached to. And we received this consult to assist with goals of care. They have a experience that you will never have had. Dani: Totally. Formulations are fluid. Dani: Go for it.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 10:53 Yeah, or like palliative care if they get a consult for whatever reason, but not trn consult, like standardized, you know, randomized to palliative care versus whatever they’re doing before. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease.

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GeriPal

JULY 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

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? Healthcare provide. Healthcare companies. This way of coping with pluralism is a tradition that he really extended and pioneered and was deeply influential. And a lot of my work has kind of been that vein. Alex 04:49 Amyloid. Insurance companies.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right? And I also think, we still operate under pay for… We get paid for the services we provide, right? What’s that and what’s the shift there? Juliet: Sure.

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