Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. Your insights could help someone else in their healthcare journey! What is in a clinic?

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The Direct Doctors Difference

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

PCPs can address your needs before you become very sick, can order testing as an outpatient to avoid waiting in the ER or urgent care, and we can help you identify illnesses and treat them quickly. Now more than ever, Direct Primary Care PCPs should be a key part of your healthcare team.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

I’m originally an ER physician. I’d been doing ER medicine for over a decade when I went back to palliative fellowship. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. There’s a small book called Music and Creativity in Healthcare Settings written by Hilary Moss.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

When starting opioid therapy for acute, subacute, or chronic pain, clinicians should prescribe immediate-release opioids instead of extended-release/long-acting (“ER/LA”) opioids. ER/LA opioids should be “reserved for severe, continuous pain.”. Methadone should not be the first choice for an ER/LA opioid.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 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

MARCH 6, 2025

-Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. I always knew that I wanted to get into healthcare, to use healthcare as a springboard for social change in our communities. Have you thought about that?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. This was an investigative report about fraud and healthcare, pure fraud, pure victimization of vulnerable people. Every time she has a change in level of consciousness, she has to go to the ER.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? We weren’t randomizing providers or patients.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. There’s obviously a lot of flaws in the healthcare system.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

I felt like more often than not, we erred towards dialysis because there it is. The post Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Is it delirium from something else?

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Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 117

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

And a doc over in Spain named Monica Lalanda, who is an ER doc and also a cartoonist, reached out to me and said you don’t have to do this anonymously. And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars. ” The first healthcare provider said, “I said withdrawal of care. That blew my mind.

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IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And I think when COVID started, I was in a number of meetings about how we were going to think about CPR from this point forward, given that it was would really expose healthcare workers to easy transmission of this virus that we didn’t fully understand yet. And that person came back to life.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Families 136

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 intention was to place it in the beds in nursing homes. That’s why we did it.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

There’s radiation keeps getting less and less and there are studies that you can avoid radiation if you have this stage one or even two small or low grade or sometimes even, whatever, higher grade two, but not in the nodes type of breast cancer, an ER-positive or HER2-negative.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Skepticism on the ability of predictive models to transform healthcare Consolidation of EHR’s into the hands of a very few companies, and potential for the drug and device industry to influence care delivery by tweaking AI in ways that are not transparent and already a sort of magical black box. Bob: Exactly. It could be anybody.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 140

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

So they need mainstream healthcare, and they need housing support. We met them at the steps of the jailhouse or in the ER after being up all night and said, “Hey, do you want to fill out a million pieces of paper for a 50/50 chance of getting housing?,” But nothing in healthcare. We spend money in healthcare.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. Jim: In Virginia, we actually convened a Joint Commission on Healthcare. Jim: Right, right.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How can we take our healthcare system, and really break it, and do it better for older adults who may not fit within, or may not have the conveniences of going into the clinic, or going to the hospital, all these things that we think about. Patients will come into the ER, they bypass the inpatient experience entirely, and go straight home.

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