Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 7, 2025

Key health policy updates from March 3, 2025: MAFP lobbyist Megan Verdeja shares the latest legislative news on health care-related bills impacting family physicians and health care access. HF 981 : Opioid prevention and education funding provided, and money appropriated (author: Rep. Read the bill summary for HF 981.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Had she signed up for the government insurance plan when she turned 65, Diamond could have avoided a financially perilous situation that left her unexpectedly responsible for the medical costs she incurred during that time. In those instances, Medicare pays first if they or their family member works at a company with fewer than 100 employees.

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ABIM

JUNE 12, 2025

He emphasized ABIM’s focus on patient-centered standards and promoting high-quality care, as well as ABIM’s commitment to ensuring a diverse governance that reflects the physician and patient population. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

Smith proposes a pathway to redirect the medical-industrial complex "back to a more humanistic orientation," which involves commissioning a "New Flexner Report" and federally-led reforms to medical education to require schools to fully embrace the biopsychosocial model. This is not to say that this book is not worth reading - far from it.

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Misplaced Training Dollars: Lack of funding for community-based training impacting the primary care physician pipeline Hospital-based graduate medical education (GME) receives significantly more funding than community-based programs, a disparity linked to fewer new primary care physicians entering the workforce. As the U.S.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Tianeptine is sold in a number of countries as a government-approved treatment for depression. “You never quite know what’s in that bottle,” Dr. Diane Calello of the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System told the AP. But the FDA has never approved it for any medical condition in the U.S.

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ABIM

MAY 18, 2025

With no family history and little cultural awareness of the disease, I was left wondering why or how this had happened to me. and globally are the cultural taboos, social stigma and lack of education about chronic digestive diseases. This burden of the disease is being felt by patients and healthcare providers.

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FDA Law

AUGUST 23, 2021

The PhRMA Code is updated periodically to reflect changes in industry norms or, as is likely the case with the latest revision, in response to political pressure or increased scrutiny from the federal government. not friends, significant others, or family members of a speaker or invitee).

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

A few ideas: Stronger technology governance of MyChart messages We want to call the MyChart mushroom an Epic problem. The local family doctor wants to use antibiotics and we need to know whether we should fly to Dubai. The visual value for a frightened family in a foreign land is hard to quantify. How do we fix this?

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

In addition, Dr. Nguyen co-chairs the SCPMG Virtual Medical Center and brings extensive expertise as a practicing family medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente. I know we go back quite a ways and that this is a very important topic for all of us to really to talk about and to be educated about. million members and patients.

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Doctors for America

JUNE 30, 2025

Medicaid provides care for low-income families, people with disabilities, children, the elderly, and pregnant people, as well as many safety-net hospitals, community health centers, and nursing and long-term care facilities. How Are Income and Wealth Linked to Health and Longevity (Urban Institute and Center on Society and Health, Apr.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In contrast, de jure segregation refers to the involvement of federal, state, and local governments in creating, structuring, designing, reinforcing, and perpetuating segregation. They are a product of deep-rooted man-made policies that extend to many sectors (healthcare, education, criminal justice etc).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

Counseling should account for and educate about reduced access to abortion services based on state law. Policies and products that support pediatricians in providing confidential and timely contraceptive care to adolescents should be designed by governments, insurers, electronic health care vendors, and health care systems.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding. Jace 30:17 Absolutely.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

There have been multiple subsequent government reports on nursing home care, most recently was about eight, nine years ago from the OIG. Part of it’s what Mike was saying, it’s accountability as a country, as a nation and as the government. This is a problem that’s existed for decades. What are they accountable for?

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They may have few family members, live alone. I called my parents, and we talked.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. I’m very proud of the work that we do every day and we take care of patients and families no matter where they live or who they are to help them meet their end of life goals. How do we make this work for patients and families?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Sheryl: Largely the people who live there as opposed to government funds. And it’s interesting there because long-term care is covered by the government, but still assisted living has emerged as a private market to try and accommodate some of this demand for supportive services. Eric: And who pays for assisted living communities?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I would say the drugs didn’t change as much as all the stuff about sexuality and about family dynamics and spirituality: all the things that I’m hoping people will get from this book. It’s hard to explain that to the family. Let the family know. The morphine family, there’s some pretty good data.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. He’s the founder and leader of the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless program in Toronto, Palliative care physician at St. Naheed 07:33 Yeah.

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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.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

She entertained her family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, you’re having your family, Christmas coming up. You’re going to go traveling to Hawaii with your family, and, you know, you want to die in January. Eric 42:11 But how much of it is like Winston Churchill, like, democracy is the worst form of government.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

-@AlexSmithMD Additional links: JAMA paper on clinical research risks, climate change, and health Geriatric medicine in the era of climate change Health Care Without Harm: [link] Practice Green Health: [link] Global Consortium for Climate and Health Education: [link] Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Well, if you are like me, you’ve probably heard of these programs but are at a loss to know exactly what they do. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And the government can do something about that?!? We focus on function and mortality because these are outcomes that really are important to patients and families. So that’s the macro environment and the role in this government policies, how this could play a role. Eric 42:13 What do you want the government to do?

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

I wonder if you could suggest an empathetic conversation that I could have with her that would not sugarcoat the idea that she has cancer, but do it in the most supportive possible way, and taking into account that she’s got a family and she’s got young kids?” ” Alex: Wow. “Hi, patient’s name. Eric: Yeah.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

Pat Connolly & Cortney Linville who attended the AAFP Family Medicine Advocacy Summit in Washington May 19-21. Here's what Dr. Connolly had to say: "I was pleased and privileged to attend the AAFP Family Medicine Advocacy Summit again last month and represent our state. Read more in the AAFP’s statement.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

A huge portion of that difference in wealth you can trace back to the fact that their families were not able to get into the housing market. So there’s this myth out there like, “Oh, homeless folks are just disconnected from their friends or family, and if only we connected them by Facebook, all would be good.”

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

It’s both institutionalized racism where there are policies and practices by corporations, by government that create inequality. Like, do you think maybe, you know, let’s educate. And also, you know, do they know of anyone, friends, family, coworkers who’s been attacked, were assaulted as a part of these incidents?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. And one would be when care is continuing a case where people believe that the patients died, or oftentimes, this is also a source of controversy between families and clinicians. And I think maybe we could list them all. That’s one key interested party.

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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.” Malaz: I love it.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2023

A lot of compounding trauma occurs at the border that has potential downstream mental health implications for individuals and their families. Dr. Saadi discusses how her parents left Iraq under Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, where he was targeting many Iraqis with Iranian ancestry and Shi’a Muslims–which included members of her family.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

In the 1980s, the government refused to acknowledge HIV as gay men died young. He kept his diagnosis hidden from friends and family because he knew how people talked about HIV. “I thought my family was going to disown me,” he said. “We called ourselves the family of love,” he said. It paid off.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

She sought me out to come and tell me a story because about 10 years earlier, she and her family, their loved one was dying in a hospital in Florida and they tried to access palliative care and they couldn’t get the doctor to refer them to palliative care. I think you’re a loving family doing the best you can.”

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GeriPal

APRIL 17, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary I read Farah Stockmans article in the NYT on why attacks on DEI will cost us all , and thought, Yes, and everyone includes harm to our healthcare workforce, our patients, and their families. Now to the federal government that is going way beyond what I think people truly understand. Well played.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 17, 2025

Those changes — plus the firing of 1,200 agency employees as part of mass layoffs across the government — are alarming scientists and NIH workers, who warn that they will undermine progress in combating diseases and other threats to the nation’s public health. At least 94 of them were public higher education institutions.

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