Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

More than a year after her riding accident, Diamond was back at the emergency room after she tripped on a step while entering a New York restaurant. The insurer not only stopped paying current claims but also moved to claw back tens of thousands of dollars it had paid to providers in the two years since she turned 65.

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Insurance Patient-Centered Government Provider 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

During this episode, we gained insight from special guests Dr. Margot Kushel and Mr. Bobby Watts about what brought them into their fields, how their work reaches the most marginalized, and what can be done at the community and structural level to address homelessness. Do you have a coordinated entry system (CES) in your community?

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Community Patient-Centered Emergency Room Medical 52

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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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 110

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). Eric: And Laurie for this patient, were you the outpatient provider? In 1990 the Supreme Court ruled…for the state of Missouri.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 113

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. Why is that important in the emergency room?

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: The problem is we communicate late, we share prognosis late, we elicit goals and values late, so all the time while they’re in the ICU getting prolonged intensive care, we don’t really know that we’re providing goal concordant care, so we wanted to nudge it a little upstream. Emergency rooms. Eric: Okay.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. I was really struck by the difference in care provided to people with advanced dementia.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60