PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Optimizing Advanced Imaging of the Pediatric Patient in the Emergency Department: Policy Statement. Pediatrics. 2024;154(1):e2024066854.

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Families Family Hospital Patient-Centered 102

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. For example, a PG doctor, while examining a case, will be asked to collect blood test results from the lab and to accompany a patient for a CT scan after that.

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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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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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Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

CDOCS

MAY 4, 2021

Without this additional skill set and post graduate training I simply could not deliver the results that my patients deserve. 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. &

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Patient-Centered Patients Manufacturing Clinic 52

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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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. You wrote about how when it comes to talking about patients with dementia, they’re rarely portrayed as resilient.

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Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101

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 we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice?

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Families 74

FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

The sweeping statement that the mere name of a company and a disease state could trigger the Act’s advertising or labeling requirements may have had a chilling effect on the way companies chose/choose to engage in disease state education.

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Mere Mortal MD

JUNE 5, 2025

When I was in my pre-medical school education, taking the required science classes like organic chemistry and biochemistry—miles off from the usual English Literature Classes I was accustomed to taking—I found a book that drew me in by its title. This is why patients often have side effects like nausea and hair loss.

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Patient-Centered Medical Patients IT 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

He is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin and medical director of their Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Eric 00:27 So we’re going to be talking about making the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in a primary care setting, not specialty care, but maybe we could talk a little bit about that.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 96

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Characterized by metastasis at the time of diagnosis, mHNPC is relatively uncommon yet accounts for up to half of deaths related to prostate cancer. Moreover, we had to innovate within the clinical pathway to ensure that samples extracted from patients could be delivered to CIC bioGUNE within just a few hours.”

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Patient-Centered Hospital Diagnosis Education 52

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. And one of the most common things that I would hear from patients, family caregivers would be I’d ask them at the end of the encounter, “What questions do you have?” AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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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? Something I’ll often point out to patients is, you know, how do you identify your emotions? On today’s podcast, we’ve invited Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson to talk to us about anxiety.

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. Jenny reached out to us because she plays music regularly for her patients, and she said, you should do a podcast about music. And I performed for many palliative patients, and that’s when I started to understand.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Des delivered a plenary at this year’s National Palliative Care Research Center’s Foley retreat. That rings true to me. All hands go up. All hands go down. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

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. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Who do we have with us today?

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It’s a jampacked 50 minutes, filled with pearls on taking care of patients with liver disease. Kirsten 04:16 So, in emergency medicine, obviously, we are interacting and caring for these both exciting and interesting, but also very complex and humbling patients to care for in the ED setting. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

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

FDA Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

Valentine — Incorporating patient and caregiver experiences into every phase of drug development has become increasingly prioritized during both development and review ( see, e.g. , previous coverage here ). By Larry J. Bauer, Senior Regulatory Drug Expert & James E.

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Patients Patient-Centered Families Family 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 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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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

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. When I see a patient? Matthew, I get the lyrics.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? And then I met a patient in clinic once who asked me a lot of really intelligent questions about medical cannabis, what it does. Eloise, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 99

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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Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary You know when you walk out of a patient’s room and have that sense, “This isn’t going to go well.” The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. Should you stop at “no?” Lynn: I do. Alex, can you play Send the Sun, by Nikki Lane?

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 98

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. – Rainbows of Aging : Jace Flatt’s research site. Noelle Marie 00:57 Hi, everyone.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 82

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

First, a clinician’s thoughts must be encoded into words, then transmitted often via sounds, and finally decoded back to thoughts by a patient or family member. Patient Values: Three Important Questions-Tell me more? Simple, right? Not so much, as each one of these steps is fraught with miscommunication. What else?

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 144

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

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We address: Why is caring for patients with this overlap so hard? Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Who follows the patient once the cancer goes into remission? Why am I having difficulty with this patient? Why am I feeling frustrated with this patient?

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 73

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. I did it before and this guy, he was 85, but he was climbing Mount Everest.”

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IT Families Family Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Eric: And what a research agenda that you’ve done, including one of the most seminal papers that we have in palliative care in lung cancer patients.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Here are a couple of articles if you want to do a deeper dive: Dani and colleagues article on Psychiatry and Palliative Care: Growing the Interface Through Education. A NY Times article titled Should Patients Be Allowed to Die From Anorexia ? We don’t have a way of operationalizing which patients qualify.

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Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

In further contrast to the United States, MAID in Canada is almost entirely administered by a clinician, whereas in the United States patients must self administer. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Sonu Gaind, who is a Chief of psychiatry and professor at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center at the University of Toronto.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

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 20, 2025

Recently, discussion has emerged about how these issues intertwine in caring for patients with advancing dementia who have stated that they would not want to continue living in that condition: for those with an advanced directive to stop eating and drinking, how do we balance caring for their rational past self and their experiential current self?

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 88

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Give too much, it may cause harm (even if the higher dose had no significant side effects, it would require patients to take a lot of unnecessary additional pills as well as increase the cost.) So, what is the effective dose of palliative care? Give too little – it may not work. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on. Eric 05:32 Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And then when you see clinically patients coming into hospital, they’ll have, you know, they’ll be admitted for aspiration pneumonia. There are probably other pneumonias that don’t are treated as patients or patients are in hospice at the time that they develop the pneumonia and they’re not hospitalized.

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