Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 8, 2025

The historical events depicted in the Academy Award–winning film Oppenheimer are no longer just history; at New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, for the first time in decades, the United States has resumed building plutonium cores.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The most common adverse event reported in patients treated with Widaplik was symptomatic low blood pressure. The FDA approval is based on positive results from two international phase 3 trials that compared Widaplik to dual combinations of its component drugs as well as to placebo.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

percent in indoor activities were seen in counties in Oregon and Washington, respectively, during the wildfire events; increases of 11 and 16 percent were experienced in major cities like Portland and Seattle. Average increases of 10.8 ” Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay.

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StorytellERdoc

MARCH 1, 2019

For the older patients, it seemed like the characters from the adult-cartoons The Simpsons and The Family Guy were a big hit. In no time, though, it seemed like these pajama bottoms began to be worn not only by the patient, but by family members. People will stare. Make it worth their while. So were Mom, Dad, and her older brother.

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ABIM

JUNE 12, 2025

The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) is a cosponsoring board for geriatric medicine, which means physicians certified by ABFM who have completed accredited training can also qualify for the Geriatric Medicine Certification Exam administered by ABIM and obtain ABFM Board Certification in Geriatric Medicine.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Nguyen co-chairs the SCPMG Virtual Medical Center and brings extensive expertise as a practicing family medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente. Although edited for clarity, it should not be considered an exact replication of the podcast and may also be updated as needed. Our guest for this episode is Dr. Khang Nguyen.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Summary Transcript Summary. What would it take to transform dementia care? Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Alex: We have a full house today. Judy: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Think about the last time you attended a talk on communication skills or goals of care discussions. Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? I’m guessing not. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Alex: (Singing).

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Family Physicians of St. Joseph

MARCH 14, 2018

6, 2017, from a lab affiliated with Covenant HealthCare hospital system of Saginaw. It was nothing less than stunning to learn the three tests mentioned above that cost $158, $147, and $83 through the hospital, cost only $7.35, $4.62, and $4.13 The hospital’s total bill for 16 tests: $1,501.49. Zane had the blood drawn on Dec.

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

Cathy: Actually, many years ago, I did some research on delirium and then I was doing some research on nursing home residents and we were doing work looking at, I was interested in how sleep problems and nighttime events might lead to delirium, and then I just became very, very interested in sleep. Summary Transcript Summary Insomnia.

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StorytellERdoc

JULY 17, 2020

His transport from his house to our department had been less than ten minutes and the pre-hospital team had done an excellent job of intubating this patient and establishing an IV to begin resuscitation efforts. As the cardiologist and our ER team continued with resuscitation efforts, I went to the family room to speak to this patient's wife.

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

I dedicate this to each of you who have cared for or are currently caring for an ill parent or family member. I had just rounded the corner of one of our busier hallways near our noisy triage area to find a favorite aide leading a family from our waiting room down the hallway toward their assigned room. You get the picture, right?

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Direct primary care offers you and your family top-notch health care, and so much more.like a high patient and provider satisfaction with an improved quality of care. Providers at New South Family Medicine and MedSpa can address the patient's deeper needs, rather than trying to rush through a hectic day full of too-brief appointments.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

Globally, flooding is the most common type of extreme weather event (EWE) and >500 million children reside in flood zones worldwide. How can events linked to climate change affect children’s mental health? Families also need physical resources such as places to go for shade or to cool down during extreme heat days.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. There were trip hazards, loose carpets, some people were hoarders. Their job was done. This is a first for our GeriPal podcast, right, Alex?

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

When we started doing more music stuff for our patients in the hospital, a lot of people started to think, hmm, what would I want to listen to? This is not highly scripted orchestral music, people, its Jazz. -S And I was fortunate to record an episode of my medical mixtape with Tyler at the w hich meeting were we at, Tyler ? Tyler 01:12 AHPM.

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My Green Doctor

JULY 2, 2025

We hope you will discover resources to share with your family as well! in the need for healthcare—translating into over 500 million extra days of inpatient hospital care and more than 100 million emergency department visits across Europe by 2050. Their projections show a conservative average increase of 0.5%

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Our guests are BJ Miller, palliative care physician and c-founder of Mettle Health , and Naomi Saks, chaplain at UCSF. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004. Epub ahead of print. Naomi: Yes, I do. Alex: Yeah.

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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. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Ann: No, he was very excited.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In May we did a podcast on KidneyPal (the integration of palliative care in renal disease) , which made us think, hmmm… one organ right next door is the liver. Maybe we should do a podcast on LiverPal? (or or should we call it HepatoPal?) ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Excited to be here.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. Many were community hospitals. The intervention was a negative study for the primary outcome, hospital length of stay. What is sludge?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Often, the way surgeons communicate about these decisions doesn’t make things any easier for themselves or their patients. And, surgeons often spend the majority of their conversations with patients describing anatomical details and exactly how they plan to ‘fix it’ , with little discussion of what that ‘fix’ will do for a patient’s overall goals.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. This is my early father’s day gift from the family. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Jennifer. Jennifer: Thanks. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Areej. Alex: (singing).

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. He’s in Boston. He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge.

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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. So there’s an event or a series of events.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Additional link to study with heatmaps of specific locations (hospital, nursing home, home) after initiating dialysis. -@AlexSmithMD ** NOTE: To claim CME credit for this episode, click here ** Transcript Eric 00:11 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Eric is skeptical. Let it be (hint hint). Let It Be from the Beatles. Eric 01:46 Great, Alex.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Others cited the call from communities to meet them where they are – be they senior centers, Black-owned businesses, or churches (we have a podcast planned in the fall with Fayron Epps and Karen Moss on the church setting). In a group visit there is a social norming effect – “if my neighbor is doing it, perhaps I should be doing it to?”

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. It was refreshing to hear Scott and Kate express similar sentiments. Much more to come. I saw them only twice. Full electric experience.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. We also talk about the eligibility for the unit, what makes it run including the interdisciplinary team and the inmate peer workers, and the topic of compassionate release.

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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. At the end, one of the characters, who has dementia, experiences an episode of lucidity. This will give people false hope!

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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. The instructor, Fran Cook , gave all the students a survey without explanation.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Joel: The Brigham and Women’s Hospital likes me to say that too. Alex: And the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And she was rushed to the hospital. 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? Joel: Oh yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary As far as weve come in the 50 years since Balfour Mount and Sue Britton opened the first palliative care at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec, have we lost something along the way? In todays podcast we welcome some of the early pioneers in palliative care to talk about the roots of palliative care.

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Some of us might still recall the 2017 salmonella outbreak linked to raw turkey products that caused over 279 infections, 107 hospitalizations, and one reported death in 41 states.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Communicating about a serious illness is hard. Last week’s podcast we talked about the challenge around miscommunication in serious illness. This week we dive into the challenges with communication when it comes to life sustaining treatments and CPR. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Jacky: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. GeriPal podcast with Tom Gill on the Precipitating Events Study, distressing symptoms, disability, and hospice.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Eduardo 07:17 Well, we had a palliative care unit in another hospital that was 510 minutes away. Summary Transcript Summary I always find cachexia in serious illness puzzling. I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address it. Eduardo, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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