Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Regular visits to a primary care clinic can make a world of difference in your overall health. 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

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. Great to be back.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Jessie: Yes.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

How, though, do we navigate anxiety and help our patients who may end up in the anxiety spiral that becomes so hard to get out of? Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose.

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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? Charlotta: Thank you.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

In contrast to geriatrics, the evidence base for palliative care lagged clinical growth, in part because palliative care has no centralized “home” at the National Institutes of Health. The National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC)and Palliative Care Research Cooperative (PCRC)were founded in part to meet this need.

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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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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

However, as noted in our editorial published with the donanemab trial , the modest benefits of amyloid antibodies would likely not be questioned by patients, clinicians, or payers if amyloid antibodies were low risk, inexpensive, and simple to administer. However, they are none of these. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Jason.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

And in my medical training, becoming a primary care doctor, I realized that older adults, women and men were having a lot of these same symptoms. Very interested in decision making around as we get older, individualizing care, sort of patient centered, values driven, it’s a tough decision to figure out.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And also kind of highlights, you know, part of what we try to do in geriatrics and palliative care is really individualize how we care for individual, like, the people in front of us, the patients, the caregivers, their family members, their friends. – Rainbows of Aging : Jace Flatt’s research site. We are not a Monolith.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. Today, we talk with Bernie Lo, prominent bioethicist and practicing primary care internist, and Laurie Dornbrand, geriatrician at the IOA On Lok PACE, about the legacy of Nancy Curzan.

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GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

Mara Schonberg is associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. Do you think most patients know that? Mammography, the harms include false positives, or sometimes they say false alarms because patients sometimes understand that better. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Mara.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Whenever I take care of a patient, I see myself as a family practice doctor, but I’ve been a hospitalist, I’ve been a primary care doctor, and I’ve done palliative. But in the end, I see these as my patients and I’m trying to define what is the right model. That had been my experience.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Sydney 00:41 Thank you.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 79

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

So Eric Cassell, for folks who don’t know, was a primary care physician. But really was a seminal pioneering figure in the field of bioethics, palliative care, et cetera. One of the patients I spoke to really said this quite well. And yet very, very few patients are actually using those services.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We talk with Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones about the hospital-at-home movement, which has been shown to reduce costs, improve outcomes and improve the patient experience. 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. We had, since the late seventies, a home-based primary care program. Annals of Int Med.

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