The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Researchers say that the implant cannot provide any highly detailed vision – but it can help patients detect distinct patterns such as door frames and shapes. The journal Nature provided a commentary report on HKUST’s research into the bionic eye. The paper, recently published in PLOS , summarises three years of data.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

To diagnose and treat a patient, a healthcare professional listens to the patient, reads their health files, looks at medical images and interprets laboratory results. The M-LLM however will be able to communicate with these systems individually and, as a central hub, will provide a tool of immense importance to doctors.

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Family Physicians of Greeley

APRIL 22, 2024

Whether you’re a parent, caregiver, educator, or simply curious about autism, this post aims to provide a comprehensive overview of what autism is and what it means for individuals and their families. Welcome to our journey to demystify autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

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PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

And I think that when we’re faced with a child who has one of these diagnoses, that’s where we need to weigh the risks and benefits. And so we routinely do outreach with our community providers. Nobody wants to miss an appendicitis. Nobody wants to miss a head bleed, right? We don’t wanna miss anything.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment.

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CDOCS

MAY 4, 2021

We need to recognize how clinical dentistry has become intertwined with digital technologies to synergistically assist us in providing enhanced diagnosis with safe and predictable treatment outcomes. & At least 1.5mm of occlusal clearance and 1 mm of axial wall depth provides adequate space for restorative strength.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 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

OCTOBER 13, 2022

And they should be forced by doing research, followed by translating research into practice and continued education of a wide variety of individuals to then care for our aging population. 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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cancer Screening: Challenges with making appointments and getting PAP Smears due to time, employment, transportation, and lack of established primary care provider. Only a few received stage 1 diagnoses. There remains many areas of opportunity to improve Latina's cervical cancer experiences.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. This whole conference that Ab puts on, and all of the tools and resources that he provides people and families with dementia are about, how do you build on the remaining strengths? She had been included. And that was a transformative experience for her.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Does a good history matter anymore?

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. Why focus on the public rather than other health care providers? And that was quite a long time of us trying to figure out what could be done different besides published papers and educate clinicians.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 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

JULY 21, 2022

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” So that’s a piece that I think is important for providers anywhere along that process to be asking about driving.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Alex 00:41 And we’re delighted to welcome Noelle Marie Javier, who goes by “she” “her” and is a geriatrician and palliative care doc professor, newly minted – c ongratulations – And a clinician educator at Mount Sinai in New York City. Noelle Marie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Noelle Marie 00:57 Hi, everyone.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. And I think that’s when I got hooked on how do we improve care, in my case again, for kids and families, but also for us, the providers. I can figure out how to provide care in this way.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 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

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Who do we have with us today? Jessie: Yes.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And so, unfortunately, I think for a while, this condition, for many people, isn’t diagnosed until you end up seeing a cardiologist or a heart failure doctor who’s really honed in on this to say, actually, this is a heart failure syndrome. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. Eric 13:28 Thank you. What is GDMT?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

There is a lot to digest with these draft clinical guidelines but the big change from the 2018 guideline is moving Alzheimers to a biological diagnosis (biomarker evidence only) not just for a research framework but now from a clinical one. And we’ve been diagnosing it at Penn. Jason: So this drug upfront is a bit of work.

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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 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 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. Eric: Lynn or Anne? But there was an impact on us as a team too. Eric: And just for our listeners, can you briefly describe the case?

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 98

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

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. The model is predominantly physicians, advanced practice providers. I have oncology on the brain.

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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. Like if a person has an issue, struggle with alcohol, I’m not their alcohol provider, but I may be their opioid provider. First one responds gets the first response. You know the case.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. Eric 16:38 So everybody was diagnosed with an advanced lung cancer sometime in the last twelve weeks and then they were randomized.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

May not even know that the patient has dementia, or they might think that, but it’s not been diagnosed. And so spouses are typically the ones for patients who provide most of the caregiving support. And that’s in addition to the financial, emotional companionship, and psychosocial support that spouses typically provide.

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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 73

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. Have been now a care provider for people with HIV for over 40 years. And over that first 15 years, which was a very difficult time when there was no treatment at all available, everybody died and usually within months or a year or two of when they were diagnosed.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. There’s also education that goes with it, educating, like, what does that mean?

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. Eric 17:46 Well, how do you train them, the frontline people seeing these patients, healthcare providers, geriatricians, oncologists? And I said, sure.

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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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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. Redwing, who is a cancer survivor, shares poems about her experiences with cancer.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”

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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. They’re often the ones who are most directly in touch with a grieving family or may have their own concerns about the care that’s being provided and the worth or value of what they’re showing up and doing every day.

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