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MARCH 6, 2025

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. Canadian Press Feature A powerful and widely shared piece on our work.

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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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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? But we felt like we want to give like the primary thing about clinical decision support is to give the provider information they don’t already have.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And I have gone through my not-so-long career, but it’s coming up on nine years now, seeing the way that we have talked about CPR in such problematic ways, in ways that really do not enable true informed consent. And that person came back to life. And I think our own fantasies of lifesaving play into that as well.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

I felt like more often than not, we erred towards dialysis because there it is. One is they’re defining the intervention using future information, which Maria always tells me is a big no, no. And the question is, is this uremia or is this something else? Is it delirium from something else? It’s right there. It’s easy.

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JUNE 23, 2022

And that’s another huge source of data and that’s the data that generally informs the USPSTF and other guidelines. And that’s why I want women to have an informed decision. And we found that clinicians really liked getting the life expectancy information. Eric: So how do you actually convey the risk then?

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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. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information. That’s why we did it.

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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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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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