Center for Family Medicine

APRIL 21, 2025

Sleep is essential for physical and mental well-being. These changes can also help with weight management and cognitive function, potentially improving sleep disorders. Consult a doctor, sleep specialist, or therapist for the right diagnosis and treatment. Consider a healthier, balanced diet for better sleep quality.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions. It can differentiate between a physician’s questions and a patient’s responses and even filter out non-relevant small talk.

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The Medical Futurist

MAY 18, 2025

Robotic nurses dressing mannequins and bed-bathing patients Delicate movement, like gently handling an elderly patient is traditionally the most challenging task to robots, who are much faster developing in intellectual tasks than matching humans in fine-motor skills. Since then, the concept has become a reality.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

Her mission — preparing the next generation of diverse physician leaders in pediatric healthcare and mental health and creating partnerships between communities and academic centers — will be critical for eliminating disparities among minority populations. A Culturally Informed Approach to Supporting Suicidal Minoritized Patients.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Which patients are eligible to go to an ACE unit? So I picked the Ed Sheeran song, The A Team, because it reminds me of our ACE team that goes around the hospital and cares for our older patients. And a light bulb just went off in my head, like, yes, this makes sense as a model for how we should care for more complex older patients.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

This simple challenge was focused on putting ourselves in the shoes of our patients with dysphagia who are prescribed thickened liquids. And I think that we’re at this kind of crossroads right now in dysphagia, and dysphagia management where our patients are suffering. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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Tiny Physician

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

A few days back, a video went viral on social media in which a resident doctor (a doctor who is undergoing post-graduation / PG doctor) was shouting at the bystander of a patient. Nevertheless, PG doctors have to work 80 to 100 hours a week without any holidays and this tiring schedule does affect their physical and mental health.

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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. And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

When I’m on service these days there is inevitably a moment when a resident says “Patient so-and-so is on X” – and I have absolutely no idea what X is. Alex: And we are delighted to welcome Rasheeda Hall, who is a physician scientist in the division of nephrology at Duke University School of Medicine, and sees patients at the Durham VA.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 4, 2023

Brevig, Senior Regulatory Device and Biologics Expert — On December 7, 2022, FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) and the Office of Tissues and Advanced Therapies (OTAT) held a town hall to answer questions related to cell therapy and tissue-engineered products chemistry, manufacturing, and contr­­ols (CMC). By Holly N.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary If you’re anything like me, you might find the process of what happens to patients when they visit a radiation oncologist somewhat mysterious. Anish 01:02 Well, I speak, you know, from a physician lens of some of the patients that I get referred, and by the time there’s. This is not a good option.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. Rectal method is more appropriate for infants, children and unconscious or comatose patients who are not able to hold the thermometer in their mouth. What are the Management and Treatment Options in a case of fever?

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It's the first point of contact for all your medical needs, from routine check-ups to managing chronic conditions. Your ongoing appointments help foster a strong patient-doctor relationship , making it easier to discuss your concerns and receive personalized care. Do you prefer a full-service medical center or a walk-in clinic?

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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! Who will emerge victorious?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. Your research is a lot in this patient population, right? Let’s say, family-centered care for heart and lung disease wasn’t really going on a few decades ago. Important implications.

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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. The patient’s capacity to make decisions was marginal, and his sons were shouldering much of the responsibility.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. The collaboration is actually the center. And it not only leads to better outcomes for patients, it leads to our better sustainability. But how about you! DorAnne, welcome to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

And we have Kate Courtright, who’s at University of Pennsylvania, the PAIR Center. What we did was ask clinicians earlier in the ICU stay for very sick patients to document prognosis, and for those who they thought would survive, to document six-month functional prognosis. Kate: These are very sick patients. Kate: Sure.

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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. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. They were stunned by the number of calls for lift assistance for older adults who had fallen.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient. A few data based publication links from Person-Centered Narrative Intervention Program of Research: .

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve covered psychedelics on the podcast beforefirst in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine , and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theora Cimino, focusing on the reasons to approach psychedelic use in patients with caution. So 5ht2 was.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Whether you’re in Detroit , Corunna , Lansing , Royal Oak , or Van Buren , this clinic is offering comprehensive care that puts patient well-being first. From managing chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension to preventive care and health screenings, the clinic is known for providing patient-centered care.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Along the way we address: Is this degree of slowed cognitive decline meaningful to patients or care partners? Eric: So patient narrative storytelling, independent of what we call it, I’d like to turn to both of you and just how you got interested in this as a subject. She was a heart failure patient.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Alex: And we have Matt DeCamp, who’s joining from the University of Colorado, where he is a primary care internist and bioethicist at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities. My worry though with that is that are we going to be expected to be more productive then, to see more patients? The patient is crying in front of you.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary For surgeons and patients, deciding if and when to operate can be challenging. Often, the way surgeons communicate about these decisions doesn’t make things any easier for themselves or their patients. We hope you enjoy this episode. And that’s how we connected.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Learn how to recognize and manage cases in the emergency department, ask the right questions to uncover inhalant use, and provide critical resources for prevention and support. Formulate effective strategies for identifying, managing, and preventing inhalant misuse in pediatric patients. References Perry H, Burns MM.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And, who within ASPE guides aging policy and connects policy to every day health challenges experienced by patients and clinicians? Alex: And we are delighted to welcome Rasheeda Hall, who is a physician scientist in the division of nephrology at Duke University School of Medicine, and sees patients at the Durham VA.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Have you ever had that moment when talking to a patient, when you realized that the phrase you just uttered, which you’ve uttered a hundred times before, came out rote and scripted? And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? Summary Transcript Summary. Yeah, I’ve been there too.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity. Eric 38:35 And then I got another question for you, Noelle Marie, is that we’re seeing more patients who transitioned as in their younger ages in our geriatrics practices. – Rainbows of Aging : Jace Flatt’s research site.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! Think chemotherapy to imminently dying patients, or CPR. Think chemo.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. Eric 05:46 So I got a question. So it’s a lot of palliation.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. We each had an average between 23 and 25 patients each.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing. Tony: Hey, thank you. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Marian. Marian: Thank you. Great to be here.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients? Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? Has kept me interested, the patient experience and the older adults in the community, their experience.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

How much of your training was focused on managing substance use disorder training and palliative care? They’re more, more interested in relationship centered care than the fancy medicines that you’re. And I wonder if that is key in patients, people who are experiencing homelessness as well. Naheed 15:53 Yeah, yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

In this podcast, we cover a great deal of ground, including: Early challenges Dr. Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. What she called total pain, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual, and she started addressing it. What do you think about that?

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Tiny Physician

MARCH 30, 2022

Archana Sharma committed suicide because of the harassment by the bystanders of the patient who died at her hospital. 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.

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