The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

She served on the National Institute of Mental Health Advisory Council and the APA’s Council for Research. Simon, MD, MPH , is Boston’s inaugural Chief Behavioral Health Officer, appointed by Mayor Michelle Wu.  Academically, he has won multiple awards for research on structural violence, health equity, and mental health.

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Mental Health Community Patient-Centered Hospital 52

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. How are the health systems designed or not designed to meet the needs of people experiencing homelessness? What we hear is that it is more trauma informed in many contexts to have people first language.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 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 the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. It’s opening this stock box of, all of a sudden, now what do I do with this information? Katie: Yeah.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

PEMBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

I would consult a toxicologist because I know that this is rare. For those already misusing inhalants, referral to a substance use disorder program is essential. Chronic complications often resolve with cessation, but addressing coexisting mental health problems and comorbidities such as depression and suicidality is equally important.

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Complication Patient-Centered Management Patients 52

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. It’s like a long, I don’t know, almost like a quarter-mile centipede with legs, and the legs are the housing units, the medical units, inpatient mental health.

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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. And there’s a mortality number of people who just can’t make it to get to our clinic.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. And that kind of prognostic information can be just as valuable, really, to patients and their families planning as time-based information. Get the hospice referral. Those kinds of things.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Families 98