Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Deliver the program via an interdisciplinary healthcare team. Given practical constraints in many healthcare settings, who are the minimum essential team members for multidisciplinary management of weight loss in older adults? These recommendations are ideals, and some participants may require workarounds.

Management 52

Management Primary Care Physicals Telehealth 52

The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

So, with this chapter, I hope to briefly touch on the basics of market investing and describe why simple diversification and index fund investing are the most effective ways for busy clinical physicians and healthcare providers to invest with the expectation of long-term gains. This will come as no surprise to most healthcare workers.

Finance 52

Finance Individual Management IT 52

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. She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief.

Community 101

Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101

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. Is that right, Nick?

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

In addition, Dr. Nguyen co-chairs the SCPMG Virtual Medical Center and brings extensive expertise as a practicing family medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente. I’m a family physician by training. And I would remiss not to mention my wife and my family who might love and enjoy time with to travel.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Patients Medical IT 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Methods: In-depth semi-structured interviews using the Database of Individual Patient Experiences (DIPEx) methodology. Participants were recruited via electronic healthcare records, community tabling events, and social media efforts. Verbatim transcripts in English and Spanish were analyzed in NVivo 14.

Diagnosis 130

Diagnosis Screening Transportation Diagnose 130

Center for Family Medicine

APRIL 7, 2025

Short-term depression following a sad event, such as a death in the family or getting fired from a job, is expected. Some individuals may have angry outbursts or irritability. Teenagers with depression may also withdraw from friends and family, spending more time alone.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Individual Diagnosis Family Medicine 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Fields Guests: Thu Quach, PhD, and Tung Nguyen, MD Time Stamps 00:00 Introduction 04:00 How Dr. Thu Quach’s and Dr. Tung Nguyen’s journeys shape their work 11:40 Policy work as a way of mitigating burnout 12:55 Balancing individual and communal focus (include?) provision in only English +/- Spanish), limitations of medical technology (i.e.,

Community 52

Community Patient-Centered Relationship Healthcare 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 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.

Community 114

Community Transportation IT PCP 114

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

However, people need to understand what works best for them individually. Yes, both are important, but family, faith, work, money and the environment we create matter too. We follow ALL VACCINATION GUIDELINES set forth by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Family Medicine! Learn more.","robots":"index","keywords":"skin

Referral 40

Referral Family Medicine DO Primary Care 40

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. I guess that’s an event.

IT 66

IT Patient-Centered Screening Patients 66

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

On today’s podcast, we talk with Jane Thomas , Naomi Saks , and Ishwaria Subbiah about the concepts of wellness, well-being, resilience, and burnout, as well as what can be done to truly improve the lives of healthcare providers and bring, I dare say it, joy into our work. I mean, in other work, hard work environments as well.

IT 110

IT Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered 110

GeriPal

JULY 11, 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.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 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.

IT 137

IT Family Families Physicals 137

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

And, you know, I really leaned in from my perspective as a primary care geriatrician to hearing from what my patients and their family caregivers are asking me for and asking me about, and they’re asking me about how they can prepare. And that family was not necessarily a trusted network.

Community 95

Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 95

GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Today we talk about lucid episodes and what they might mean to the person with dementia, their family and loved ones, to philosophers, to clinicians, to neuroscientists. Particularly patients, families. I think we have ideas about are these paradoxical events, are they expected? That their loved one is in there. Eric 01:34 Yeah.

Family 93

Family Families IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. Michele: Yep.

Family 132

Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events. One of the headlines there was about a family medicine doc, not to pick on family medicine, a doc, who was prescribing mail order psychedelics at really high volumes around the country.

Patient-Centered 91

Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

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. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. those experiencing homelessness).

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia. And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Samir. Samir: Thanks, Alex and Eric.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

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.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. You’re talking about a paradigm shift in healthcare.

IT 104

IT Patient-Centered Family Families 104

GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Second, as we discussed in last week’s podcast , older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, were far more likely to die than younger individuals. It’s baked into people’s belief systems, who ultimately make laws and make policies, and it can influence healthcare. Eric: Absolutely. I was going to stop at that point.

IT 91

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Patients 91

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Alex 06:20 Can I what’s the healthcare equivalent to the Starbucks coffee? The events are conditions that’ll be set into place unless some active choice to the contrary is chosen. Inside or outside of healthcare? We tested two different nudges individually and then we combined them. Eric 06:19 Oh yeah.

Patient-Centered 116

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

So what is the role of individuals like geriatricians in prescribing amyloid antibodies and caring for individuals who are receiving them? And I do think geriatricians need to as individuals make that decision, largely based on their comfort with the diagnostics and the specifics of the therapeutics. I’m a prescriber.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

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. So I first want to just say thank you to Ernesto’s family.

Illness 136

Illness IT Patient-Centered Family 136

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. We provide critical conversations with colleagues and families to coordinate transition planning.” Are there any tools?

Patient-Centered 132

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

We cover a wide range on this topic, weaving in our own stories of loss with Thomas’s experiences, stories, and poems from years of caring for families after their loved one’s have died. Whereas in cultures that practice cremation properly, it’s a public event full of ceremony and ritual and expectation. I can tell you this.

IT 124

IT Family Families Relationship 124

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

So we created these heat maps where you could see for each individual what actually happened in the days and you. Take a stab, Alex, in one sentence, I think more total time bias is when the start time for one group doesn’t begin until some event happens and therefore they have to survive until that event. Maria 36:03 Yes.

Management 116

Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. How do you make decisions about work and family? Alex: I’ve got to show you the back of the Jersey.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. Today we talk about disruptive events, or health and wealth shocks. So thought it related to our theme of disruptive events about different ways in which you may experience an early demise.

Illness 93

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

And I think up until the time when my aunt was passing, I had been very afraid of the idea of death in my family. And what’s important about this for your listeners is that we begin to see that dying is not just a medical event, and we need to stop treating it as if it were just that. It was something we didn’t talk about.

IT 122

IT Patient-Centered Patients Relationship 122

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

James: Yeah, so I guess just to start… I mean, prognosis in general is kind of a term for predicted course of disease, and I think people commonly use it to refer to an individual’s life expectancy or how long the person has to live. I think this is a really difficult topic to talk about with patients.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. And so any additional stressor such as heat or an extreme weather event or having to move from your home because of a climate related disaster can really tax an older adult whose window of resilience is more limited.

Healthcare 129

Healthcare IT Education Hospital 129

GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

So this week we’re going to be talking about writing for the lay public, and next week we’ll be publishing a podcast on writing for healthcare providers. And then I feel like when I’m in clinic I’m helping individuals, and you only have so much time to help so many people. Rosanne: I certainly do.

IT 105

IT Healthcare Professional Healthcare Transportation 105

GeriPal

JULY 25, 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.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 106