Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

Fever can present alongside other symptoms, such as chills and fatigue, which may help in diagnosing the underlying cause. Consulting your doctor ensures proper treatment. A comprehensive history includes: A body temperature exceeding 100.4°F F (38°C) is generally regarded as indicative of illness.

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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. You get a consult if you get a consult.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

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 36:49 I would first present to you what I think your options are. Is that your feeling, too?

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. Wonderful work. Every Veteran has a story.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I love this series of articles because each presents a component of a practical, patient-centered approach to patient-surgeon communication and decision making, and language surgeons (and surgical trainees) can start using in their next patient visit. People think of the phases of a typical clinical consultation. ” Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In recent years, pressures to decrease hospital length of stay and increase throughput, the rate at which patients are moved in and out of the system has contributed to a culture in many acute care environments where physical therapy functions primarily as a consultation service for discharge planning. Ann: My palliative care doc is great.

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Alex 00:59 And I met all three of you and watched you do a presentation about psilocybin research at the Congress International Desens Palliative Miguel. What I presented at HPM was findings of several hundred outpatients and the two most salient constructs were depression. Ali John, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. So when we did have.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary In todays podcast we were delighted to be joined by the presenters of the top scientific abstracts for the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine ( AAHPM ) and the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Nurses Association ( HPNA ). And so the video consult was what became the mode.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

And then we were involved, palliative care was consulted when the patient was really sick and decompensating in the ICU. This happens so often/ we get consults from the intensive care unit, patient’s really sick, and you get this you know right away, this is not going to go well. That can all start with you.”

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 97

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. So I allow family members to be present if they want them to. That’s fine.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

You present your. So even partnering with that, making sure that you have resources that are available to partner with folks who are experts, let’s say in hormone therapy, some of our endocrinologists, some of our primary care physicians, they might come to you, let’s say, for a geriatric consultation and memory loss.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. People would present with horrible opportunistic infections, not just pneumocystis pneumonia, but CNS infections with toxoplasmosis and wasting syndrome, of course. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Well, it’s not just being present, though. And that’s not the information that we’re looking for as much when we’re the palliative care consult team. ” And this comes up sometimes with palliative care’s consult, “What are you, hospice?” Josh: Mm-hmm. Yeah, totally. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

It’s important to note here that the warnings and precautions listed in the acetaminophen labeling complied with FDA’s Pregnancy Rule (which applies to all OTC systemic products), stating “if pregnant or breast-feeding ask a health professional before use,” and with the acetaminophen OTC Monograph and the relevant NDAs.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. Eric: When I try to think about what a doula does, should I call it a consult?

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

He was a person with schizophrenia, he was a person who used drugs and he presented in pain crisis to our shelter. So, you know, I just wanted to present a couple options and give you a sense of, you know, the background for both. Who, his name was Terry. And no person should actually be experiencing homelessness. Alex 11:17 Thank you.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Eric 13:00 I also love that too, because even on our inpatient ballot of care consult service, whenever somebody says that they’re unrepresented or they don’t have a surrogate, we never believe that until we usually look up. Decision making hierarchies by default. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I felt like I was always told to present people with a buffet of options and, really, without guidance, ask them to choose, which is, it would always make me feel sick to my stomach. I point this out a lot more nowadays to the resident teams that consult. And I described a code that I led as a senior resident. Sunita: I know.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Families 136

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. Alex 10:52 And did you have algorithms you’d present to them, like given this patient’s circumstance, these are recommendations?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

When you hear, “We need more money to pay for staff,” you have to say to yourself, “Where’s the money presently going?” They’ve brought on experts, they’ve brought on additional people who are researchers or consultants who do this work all day long, and have added a lot of content.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. The post Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

And so in that context, knowing that there was going to be some evolution of policy in this area, that’s how I got involved consulting with members, trying to understand the situation better, that type of thing. One thing I would like to add here is both Sonu and Leonie presented this as something that lacks boundaries.

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Tiny Physician

MARCH 30, 2022

She was a post-graduate in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (the branch which covers pregnancy and the female reproductive system) and she had won various accolades during her student and consultant days. The doctors stopped their work in other areas of the hospital and completely concentrated on her.

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Hospital Government Patient-Centered Medical 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? It’s just so interesting the myriad of ways that this can present in our behavior when we neglect to just look within. Dani: Yeah, so the way you presented was triggering to them. Keri: Yeah.

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Patients IT Families Family 109

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Years and years ago, the first few years as an attending physician, I was consulted to take care of a gentleman with metastatic esophageal cancer. For this weekly treatment, the cancer team that had been consulted in the hospital told him this is nonsense. So I’m going to present a case. And this is one of those examples.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Eric 12:11 And we consult psychiatry. Dani 15:02 Speaking to the fact that we are talking about such a massive array of illnesses, of presentations of symptom severity, and trying to speak in generalizations. I think it’s very present in maid. We do not have a psychiatrist, but we have consultants. Alex 40:57 Yeah.

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

No, I mean, I think I had the initial feeling or thought about this being present after I learned about it and were thoughtful with senior mentors about it. Were those just things that you picked up on that didn’t quite need a scale? You just knew it? Thomas: Yeah, yeah. I did actually go back in and administer scales at least one time.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Alex Smith Links Link to the McGill National Grand Rounds Series on Palliative Care , Michael Kearney as initial presenter, and registration for future events. Is that how we presented ourselves? And love that Jim Croce choice. Whats in a name? Ive got a name. No, you dont need to be Canadian. Canadians are welcoming. Eric 13:14 Okay.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 104

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Eric 11:58 So going back to the case that you presented at the start, so you’re seeing this person use a whole lot of humor. And the person who was coming to me for consultation said, well, how do I get them to open up the box? We’re going to have to be able to open the box. So help serves and hinders in everybody.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

His lymphoma had relapsed, and palliative care was consulted to help with his symptoms. And so I think one thing we really like about not having it scripted word for word is the opportunity to kind of flex into that moment and just be present and kind of try that out. I’ll call my patient. He sat in his recliner by the window.

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IT Community Patients Families 107

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. Caroline: I’ve had a lot of n of one experiences, or just clinical experience one on one, where I’ve had to, as the geropsych consultant, encourage families and providers to stop the feeding tube. Physicians often not present except for an occasional monthly visit.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And he had a deadly fear of being institutionalized, based on his previous present experience. We consult all the time on patients who have advanced directors who say one thing and we’re in a situation where it’s clear they want to do something else. His hands were gone. And so that was his biggest big fear.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

But my co-fellow and I, we were on service for the ethics service and we had a run of consults where the clinician who placed the consults framed the consult as an issue of ambivalence. So this, I think we had three or four consults. They were all struggling from really different places with very different things.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Consulting 128

GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

But my co-fellow and I, we were on service for the ethics service and we had a run of consults where the clinician who placed the consults framed the consult as an issue of ambivalence. So this, I think we had three or four consults. They were all struggling from really different places with very different things.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Consulting 119

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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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. We started a clinic here in 2008 at the VA, and what we found was that, you know, our median time from consult to death before we started clinic was like 18 days, somewhere around there, like somewhere around two weeks. Eric 10:44 No, all consults.

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