Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

Cost-sharing and education may improve access to GLP-1 therapies for obesity, but systemic barriers remain, requiring broader policy and clinical reforms. Waldrop, MD , and colleagues identified barriers to obesity medications more broadly—and potential solutions. They published their insights in Nature Medicine.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Eric: So an educational component potentially going on there. Now which brings us to Liz’s paper in JAMA IM on the optimized pragmatic cluster, randomized controlled trial published March 28th, 2022 about a deprescribing education versus usual care for patients with cognitive impairment and primary care clinicians. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It’s a first Department of Health Social Work in a medical school in the country. Again, it happened because the dean of the medical school at that time said, “We were teaching interprofessional education and we were quite successful with it and we’ve been doing it for years.” That, to me, is the goal.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that. Oh my gosh.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that. I remember early on just being amazed by how I would go into a room and my perception, I’m not a medical provider, going into the room was like, oh wow, I have this sick old person laying in bed. So I’m a writer, I’m a poet.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

So thinking about, you know, if you are in sort of a home where you’re more likely to Experience childhood abuse that may potentially limit your education trajectory and your ability to attend school. And I think as an educator it’s been really important in particular to focus on that final, that last one.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And that really is what prompted me to get certified as a sexual education provider. We sort of set physicians, or I would say we set medical providers up a little bit when we say, you really should us ask, but then we don’t give them the resources or the sense of training about what to do next. Areej 43:13 Done.

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