The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Their success is understandable : they offer a fast and easy method to check any skin conditions, typically for a fraction of the cost of a traditional healthcare appointment. 8) VisualDx Thousands of hospitals, clinics, and medical schools use VisualDx to aid diagnostic accuracy, enhance medical education, and improve patient outcomes.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. Your insights could help someone else in their healthcare journey! What is in a clinic?

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury. Emmy: Ended up starting a program, outpatient at our hospital at the time. How did you get interested in this? Is this our role?

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Imagine her hearing for the first time that you’re sick, that you’re hospitalized, that you’re in the ICU, and that you can’t make your own decisions? ” and the answer is no, that probably was more just about do you need anybody to support you kind of emotionally or during this hospital stay, just give information to.

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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

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. By diagnosis? They were at the VA, but not so much at our main hub hospital where I trained. I do tend to focus in the hospital setting. That’s just not how the hospital works. By prognosis? Can nudges help? It’s where I practice.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Rethinking Automation and Inequity in Healthcare [link] [link] [link] MD Calc approach to inclusion of race [link] —— Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? Greenwall Foundation Bill Stubbing lecture Are Robots Racist?

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. Jennifer: They have a meaningful impact on what happens to them during the hospitalization and after. They all self-identified as a hospital based practice.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It’s Lona Mody who is a translational infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Devika Nair, who is a nephrologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee Valley VA Healthcare System. Our first guest is a repeat guest.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. COVID-19 diagnosis of self Yes 24 (44.4) 150 (54.3) 126 (45.7) 162 (58.7)

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

When you think about leadership and we think about health care, we still live in a healthcare system that has a hierarchy. And so there are different levels of power within our healthcare system. What does this diagnosis mean to you? Barbara: My first reaction is word, that’s really what happened. Barbara: You do.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. Paramedics can provide life-saving treatment on the way to the hospital.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. And I know one of the topics I did was polypharmacy then.

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GeriPal

JULY 3, 2025

We’ve invited two palliative care doctors to talk about survivorship with us: Laura Petrillo , a physician-researcher at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Laura Shoemaker , an outpatient palliative care doctor at the Cleveland Clinic. I was there and at University Hospitals, had a great visit. Great to see you guys.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy!

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GeriPal

JULY 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

MAY 9, 2024

Matt Tyler (aka Pallidad for those on Twitter ): Matt is the Hospice and Palliative care doctor who created How To Train Your Doctor , which helps patients living with serious illness find tips on “owning” their healthcare plan on his Instagram and YouTube pages. I do think other healthcare providers need to learn about this.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 18, 2024

OASH concluded that “there is widespread current experience with medical use of marijuana in the United States” by the licensed healthcare providers for which “such medical use is recognized by entities that regulate the practice of medicine” in these states.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Alex: We are honored to welcome Dr. Rajagopal, who goes by Raj, who is the author of Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Healthcare. The reasons are tied to the basically poor healthcare in low and middle income countries. It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. It is not only palliative care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And I think the crisis that we’re in right now in healthcare delivery, the idea of laying down my badge, I think that’s maybe a metaphor for being a sheriff, but what about being a healthcare provider? It also feels like, I also grew up in med school in a three hospital system. So I just can’t keep going.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Joel: The Brigham and Women’s Hospital likes me to say that too. Alex: And the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And she was rushed to the hospital. And they agreed on that and they talked to the people at the hospital, the surgeons and the nurses. They stayed in the hospital for longer. Joel: Oh yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

But in reality, given workforce shortages and just the challenges and the resources necessary to be able to provide early integrated palliative care from the time of diagnosis of advanced cancer, the model simply is not implementable, at least not in our current state with our available infrastructure and resources.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

Elise 07:02 So healthcare workers for sure. So the first thing, explain the diagnosis. Gordon 41:13 The hospital is also on fire. I want you to be able to be in the hospital and be with your loved one. And then there’s the extra, the other layers of the work that are important. Who do you want to read the book?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. You don’t see it on the PDMP. Katie: Sure.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Zachary: So seeing a non-onc population at the VA and out-patient at Dana-Farber, and that when someone comes to me with a diagnosis of opioid use disorder, it is much easier you kind of have an idea of where you’re going to start. They have poor pain, they have poor function, but you also can’t clearly make a diagnosis.

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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. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Instead, what if your surgeon told you that the operation she was discussing could help with only 4 things: live longer, feel better, prevent disability, or obtain a diagnosis? The problem is, that’s actually not a very good narrative for nearly everything we take care of in healthcare. Gretchen: It can help you live longer.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. We got admitted to the hospital, our inpatient palliative team developed their skill set because they had a place to send patients when they got discharged. He’s now hospitalized to break up that methadone into three times a day dosing.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Don: Thanks for having me, Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Abby Rosenberg, who’s Chief of Pediatric Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Director of Palliative Care at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Welcome back, Abby.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. For-profit hospices having much higher rates of their patients visiting the emergency department and being hospitalized, in addition to disenrollment. There’s a cost avoidance aspect to it, too.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

Alex: She’s also associate professor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Harvard Medical School. So she had them early in diagnosis and then a little bit later. Alex: She is working in Sweden and researching in Sweden, in Lund. Did I say it right, Lund? Juliet: Lund, yeah. Alex: Lund. Juliet: You got it right. Brad: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And while I was in the hospital, I never actually got over, like you were talking about, Eric, my defensiveness, the sting to my ego and my character and my worth, enough to get to the place of thinking about how I could be a good doctor for him. I wish they were just a diagnosis. Eric: Yeah, or just not even anything by you.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

* This episode of the GeriPal Podcast is sponsored by the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Division of Hospital Medicine , which is committed to providing outstanding, compassionate care to all patients, advancing health equity, and fostering excellence in hospital medicine. For more details, please click here. (AP

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

And so many older adults with diagnosis of osteoporosis have never received any therapy for it. These were clinical trials involving postmenopausal women with a diagnosis of osteoporosis, based on either an existing vertebral fracture or a bone mineral at the density T-score of less than negative 2.5, Alex: Thanks.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

We remember bucking the rules, figuring out who you are, hair on fire, feeling invulnerable, trying to figure out who you are – and now those adolescents are stuck in the hospital, with doctors and parents telling them what to do, having their autonomy crushed by the medical institution, realizing they’re not invulnerable.

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