Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

MAY 1, 2025

Knowing these numbers, it’s imperative we take the opportunity for education and discussion. Individuals experience various degrees of well-being, with people at one end of the spectrum having conditions such as depression, anxiety, or schizophrenia: conditions that can significantly impact daily life and cause distress or impairment.

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Plum Health

JUNE 9, 2025

He believes in delivering individualized, patient-focused care by taking the time to learn each person’s unique story, lifestyle, and health goals. It has been a true honor to care for my patients at Pulmonary and Medicine Associates, and I am deeply grateful for the trust and relationships built over the years.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 26, 2023

Dr. Saha’s research focuses broadly on the influence of race and racism in the doctor-patient relationship, its relation to disparities in the quality of health care, and its implications for diversity in the healthcare workforce. When a health care provider uses such language (e.g.,

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

Unfortunately among these alternative practitioners are many individuals who are selling tests, treatments, or supplements that are at best useless and expensive but at worst actually harmful. They do not hold an educational credential that qualifies them to diagnose and treat you. More on that below.

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Patients Primary Care Appointment Diagnose 52

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

And there is this bidirectional relationship between wealth and health shocks. And then I was inspired by this paper and then really interested in looking at the bidirectional relationship between the two of them. Those are all things that could dramatically be a major health shock for an individual. And health shocks.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We are a collective profession of high-earning and driven individuals. With a significant portion of our income now free from the shackles of educational debt, we can entertain new ways to invest our earnings and grow our wealth. I understand the incentive, sure. Like so many of you, I have little background in real estate investing.

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Management Finance Individual Education 52

Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

” “Whether you’re the call center agent, the receptionist, [or] the lab tech, you participate and you provide the input into innovation,” said Dr. Nguyen. The Southern California Permanente Medical Group is one of the largest medical groups in the nation with more than 8,800 physicians providing care for over 4.8

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests George Kuchel & Alison Huang have no relationships to disclose. Incontinence and avoiding issues can present in an older individual, in some cases, just like they do a younger person. Biological aging or physiological aging varies from individual to individual.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

So on today’s podcast we invite four brilliant individuals to talk about their perspective on how to change how we as a society and health care system partner with individuals with dementia. Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

So a lot of these patients that I care for are at risk for mortality or poor prognosis in general, and wanting to know how do we still provide them with quality care without giving them too many pricks, too many titrations when it comes to insulin. The long-term repercussions aren’t as big of a deal anymore.

Diabetes 74

Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Families 74

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. Communication techniques we can use when talking to individuals with hearing loss. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Alex: Great story.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Join me as I scope out the nuances of gastroesophageal reflux and gastritis and provide practical insights for clinicians in the emergency setting. So you could start that in the emergency department if the symptoms are severe enough, provided that they have primary doctor follow ups. H2’s work immediately.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

During my training, I didn’t receive much education about radiation oncology, and I’m not entirely sure what some of the terms mean (hypofractionated means fewer sessions, right?). Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology. Evie 00:41 Thank you.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

During this episode, we hear from Zahra Khan, an educator and editor who has written extensively on abolition in medicine, and Dr. Sayantani DasGupta, a physician-educator, prolific children’s book author and faculty at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.

Community 52

Community Education Patient-Centered Relationship 52

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. To note that I am an individual who goes through this world. And we also need it.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Minority stress theory posits that individuals belonging to stigmatized minority groups experience increased levels of proximal and distal stressors that can lead to negative physical and behavioral health outcomes, including higher odds of substance abuse.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

all of whom focus their efforts on educating the general public about living and dying with a serious illness. Why focus on the public rather than other health care providers? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow have no relationships to disclose.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 14: Race, Place, and Health: Clinician and Community Perspectives Show Notes by Alec Calac February 15th, 2022 Summary: This episode highlights how racism manifests in the built environment, and how community and individual-level efforts can mitigate these inequities. Be curious.

Community 52

Community Individual Mental Health IT 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. And yet, after assisting the older adult to their feet, the EMS providers would leave. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. Their job was done.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Between 2007 – 2019, Black individuals experienced a higher death rate for opioid overdose deaths than any other racial or ethnic group. These narratives have vilified individuals who would benefit from comprehensive, person-centered substance use treatment, rather than incarceration and other adverse harms.

Community 52

Community Patient-Centered Mental Health Board-Certified 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

This is the last of three episodes interrogating the relationships between race, place, housing, and health. Dr. Kushel and Mr. Watts remind healthcare providers to speak out about the structural causes of homelessness. Push back against individual narratives that blame individuals for systemic injustice.

Community 52

Community Patient-Centered Emergency Room Medical 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 110

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. So that’s a piece that I think is important for providers anywhere along that process to be asking about driving. Alex: Yeah.

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Families IT Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. With their regular providers? And really learning from them about what kinds of things healthcare might provide, that might be of help to them. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. In their communities? How might we help this population?

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 123

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. We’re willing to spend $50,000 a year for individuals for their expensive pharmacy medication. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. She helped them do something about it. Alex: I think those are great.

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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 137

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. I think for families and for other providers who are not trained in that, it’s very hard to predict. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 110

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Jasmine: It’s an imaginative love story that deconstructs age through an intergenerational friend relationship. To me, I think the Greenhouse folks have proven that you can provide quality care in a home-like environment cost effectively if it’s done right. So I am requesting The Sifters by Andrew Bird. Eric: Can I ask why?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP297 “The Nature of Suffering” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for the annual CME subscription ( cost is $100 for a year’s worth of CME podcasts ), you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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IT Families Family Physicals 137

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Rather, most of us live and make decisions in relationship to one another. But once we realize that almost everybody makes decisions in the context of relationships. And so the family is there in much more of an advisory role rather than providing say, cognitive scaffolding that they might provide in supported decision making.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 98

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Check out some of their recent work, including: Dr. Holt-Lunstad’s and Dr. Perissinotto’s powerful perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine which provides a clinical framework for addressing loneliness and social isolation. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I must admit, though, sometimes it just feels off… inauthentic, as if it’s not a genuine desire to improve our lives as health care providers, but rather a metric to check off or a desire to improve productivity and billing by making the plight of workers a little less miserable. Individuals had no control. And Covid was just.

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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. But we’re not perfect individuals.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 114

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We are delighted to welcome Jane Euler, who is lead doula and co-founder of Present for You, which is a benefit LLC company that provides doula support at the end-of-life. We are doulas for those with serious illness and those at end-of-life, just a longitudinal relationship, nonmedical support to provide presence. Jane: Right.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 119

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. And for many years, I think there was a focus on physicians and then providers. Summary Transcript CME Summary Serious illness communication is hard.

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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. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Today we discuss: What is the best terminology?

Healthcare 102

Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

So the intention of the AGS Beers Criteria is to provide information primarily to clinicians, although to other audience as well, but medications that we consider to be potentially inappropriate in older adults. But it does kind of provide that caution, it kind of slows things down to make sure you’re really paying attention.

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