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. Dr. Ogboh collaborates closely with his patients to create personalized, evidence-based treatment plans that support their overall well-being.

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care. minutes long.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

One of the most rewarding parts of being a primary care physician is when I am able to work with a patient to help them find answers to unexplained symptoms they have been dealing with, sometimes for years! As a result, doctors often end up referring the patient somewhere else if they do not immediately know the answer.

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The Physicians Foundation

AUGUST 15, 2024

is honored for his transformative work, connecting patients with primary care and critical health resources BOSTON, August 15, 2024 – The Physicians Foundation is proud to announce Jubril Oyeyemi, M.D., Jubril Oyeyemi, M.D., The award is named in honor of Richard (Buz) Cooper, M.D., president of The Physicians Foundation.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 10, 2020

He studies the relationships between homelessness and health under Dr. Margot Kushel at the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations. Outside of his studies and research, he writes about health policy, medical education, and the underrepresented medical trainee experience. He was a 2018 Student National Medical Association David E.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 14, 2021

He will be furthering his education next year with a Fellowship in Hematology Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center and couldn’t be more excited. She loves internal medicine for its problem solving and meaningful therapeutic relationships with patients. She completed her medical school training at Johns Hopkins.

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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.,

Electronics 52

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This is not a failure on our part, and we need to ensure we treat ourselves with the same care as we would our patients. Promotion of hope, self-sufficiency and care for others – Be a role model and leader for staff, patients and students, with calmness and compassion for self and others.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes. Patients received brochures detailing the risks of gabapentinoids, nonpharmacologic alternatives, and a proposed deprescribing regimen (see here for the brochure ). in the usual care group.

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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. There, we may do very poorly, where we can describe our beautiful models of all the kind of risk factors and contributors, ranging from organ level, patient level, behavioral, contextual, environmental.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Interpersonal communication is a critical dimension of primary care. None of the existing reviews examine primary care-specific interpersonal communication for patients living with chronic conditions. Study Design: Systematic review.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary If you’re anything like me, you might find the process of what happens to patients when they visit a radiation oncologist somewhat mysterious. Anish 01:02 Well, I speak, you know, from a physician lens of some of the patients that I get referred, and by the time there’s. This is not a good option.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. Gastroesophageal reflux disease is when the patients have severe symptoms that persist and cause long term issues.

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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. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Choosing a primary physician can be a daunting and challenging task. There are many things to consider before you settle on the person who will be responsible for your primary care. Look at their background, education, qualifications, and any other relevant information that might be available.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.

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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. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

How, though, do we navigate anxiety and help our patients who may end up in the anxiety spiral that becomes so hard to get out of? Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Today we talk with DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace about the notion that we should revolutionize our education programs, training programs, teams, incentive structures, and practice to be intentionally interprofessional in all phases. In other words, in addition to being a specialist (e.g. Alex 22:05 Yeah.

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Screening IT Families Family 119

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Initially, it was just because there weren’t really answers for my patients. Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. We’re going to go into how to talk to patients about this, because Emmy, you’ve done some research on it. “When can I get back to driving?”

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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. Noelle Marie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Noelle Marie 00:57 Hi, everyone.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston.

Illness 136

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Welcome back, William. John: Thank you.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

There are some older adults in whom these are the correct drugs, either because of their particular clinical circumstances or because shared decision making and patient values and preferences. So we want to alert clinicians as well as patients and policy makers to the presence of these drugs. Is this the right drug for this patient?”

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. Graduated in 2013, did a two-year clinician educator track. How long ago?

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. The patient case. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal. Louise 00:26 Thanks for having me. Alex 03:33 Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. 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?

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Eric 03:25 So we have a lot to talk about, but I’m wondering if we can kind of take a big step back and just talk about the patient population that’s in nursing homes. Like, do they have palliative care needs? What were you seeing when you saw that need for palliative care? No, you do see palliative care.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

However, as noted in our editorial published with the donanemab trial , the modest benefits of amyloid antibodies would likely not be questioned by patients, clinicians, or payers if amyloid antibodies were low risk, inexpensive, and simple to administer. The patients continued to be followed. However, they are none of these.

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Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

We talk with Susan about how far the field has come, from early days when the attending physician would decide which patients were DNR and place a black “no code” dot in the chart. There was no conversation with the patient or the family about this. We talk about challenges facing the field today.

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Illness IT Families Family 109

GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

And so all of my work has really been trying to help patients understand what matters to them or make decisions based on what is likely the realistic outcomes of a decision and try to explain it to them in a way that they can understand so that they can make the best choice for them. Do you think most patients know that? Mara: Yeah.

Screening 99

Screening PCP PCP IT 99

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! Think chemotherapy to imminently dying patients, or CPR. Think chemo.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

An end-of-life doula is a non-medical support person that provides a longitudinal relationship with aspects of medical, I mean, aspects of companionship, presence, holding space, some logistics, some practical help, decision making perhaps. But in the end, I see these as my patients and I’m trying to define what is the right model.

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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. Alex 00:07 Today we are honored to welcome Naheed Dosani, who is a palliative care doc and health justice advocate. Today we discuss: What is the best terminology?

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

We talked with Thor Ringler, who helped found the My Life My Story Project at the VA and beyond, and Heather Coats about the evidence base for capturing patient stories. I can remember two instances of storytelling in training or in education, I guess. Because we all interface with it at the end of the day as patients.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

If you want a deeper dive, check out the following resources: Our Nature of Suffering podcast with BJ Miller and Naomi Saks Dani Chammas Annals paper on countertransference and why we shouldnt say that the patient was difficult rather than that I felt frustrated. Kate 11:33 Yeah, I mean, definitely more indirect pathways than direct.

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