Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, few studies have evaluated preconsultation tools targeting older adults and healthcare professionals. Study design: Qualitative interviews were conducted with older adults (n=19) and health providers (n=17) in 4 family medicine clinics (2 rural and 2 urban) in Quebec, Canada.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

The emergency room has become a pressure cooker, and healthcare professionals are paying the price. series The Pitt has drawn praise for its unflinching portrayal of the ED, including a widely discussed episode in which a patient’s family member violently assaults a nurse. The Warner Bros.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 29, 2025

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Plum Health

MAY 19, 2023

Join the Plum Health DPC Family Today Join the Plum Health DPC family and start enjoying a fresh, personalized approach to healthcare. This blog post is a general informational guide and does not replace professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Incarceration negatively affects the physical and mental health of people who are incarcerated as well as their family members and loved ones, and limits access to healthcare before, during, and after incarceration. All healthcare professionals will have patients who are directly or indirectly impacted by the carceral system.

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Barton Associates

MAY 29, 2025

One way to increase access to care to patients who need it—especially those who live in rural areas with a higher shortage of healthcare professionals—is for current physicians to take locum tenens positions. Why become a locum tenens physician? Check out our job board and apply today to get started!

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Dr. Michael Bazel

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Let’s explore the benefits and drawbacks of intermittent fasting so you can make an informed decision. Dinner with friends, work lunches, and family gatherings don’t always align with your eating schedule, which can lead to feelings of isolation or guilt. What Is Intermittent Fasting? However, it’s not for everyone.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

If the patient needs additional support beyond the primary care clinician’s capacity or scope of practice, telehealth visits or “E-consults” with an obesity medicine specialist, behavioral psychologist, dietician, physical therapist, or other healthcare professionals essential to the care plan are avenues to improve access.

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Family Physicians of Greeley

APRIL 22, 2024

Whether you’re a parent, caregiver, educator, or simply curious about autism, this post aims to provide a comprehensive overview of what autism is and what it means for individuals and their families. The post Demystifying Autism: Understanding the Spectrum appeared first on Family Physicians of Greeley, PLLP.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

Simon is a pediatric addiction medicine psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a recent Commonwealth Fund fellow in health policy at Harvard University; and the medical director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network.  References 1. Benton TD , Boyd RC , Njoroge WF.

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Because of this, carving out the time for family remains a top priority, and as our family grows, more and more time is needed to make that goal a reality. Publishing post after post, week after week, while juggling my clinical burdens, family life, personal goals, my health… it just became too much.

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FDA Law

AUGUST 16, 2023

By Dara Katcher Levy — Well, if you, like many within industry, felt emboldened to disseminate promotional materials that may push the envelope on efficacy (so long as your risk information was tight) think again! Let’s go over some background information relating to Breztri and the OPDP Warning Letter. Pretty egregious stuff, right?

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids. What is the role of the family caregiver system, how they play a role? Tamryn: Yes, 100%.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Attendee 12: I’m hopeful for more access to people to have palliative care early, and I’m hopeful that we’re able to provide patients and families what they need, which is a lot more caregiving, which I feel like is a big thing that we’re missing in our healthcare. Eric: Here’s our contact information.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Liz Bayliss is Senior Investigator at Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research, and Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado. And this paper really gave us some important insights into older adults’ priorities about medication use that can inform these conversations. Elizabeth: Nice to be here.

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

But I do think people can give you pretty specific information. Eric: Are you also talking to their significant others, getting other information about how things are going at night? Brienne: It’s just that the reliability of getting the information back, that’s the problem. Brienne: Yeah. Brienne: 100%.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

And when you think about that, they’re hearing pieces of the information and their brain is trying to make sense of it. It’s because they literally couldn’t access the information. I wonder if you could engage their family in the goals of care discussion.” It changes the words. Eric: Great.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

I just thought there was so much we could learn and offer from every sense, from the clinical point of view, from the family point of view, from prevention, from treatment, epidemiology, et cetera. There’s not that much information on smoking and cognition. One might argue they still are. So, that’s how I ended up there.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2022

These are intellectually interesting but often personally devastating to the patient and family involved. This is not to mention the significant harms that we can expect to see shortly from unsafe self-induced abortions and from delays in care for nonviable pregnancies due to limitations placed on healthcare professionals.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. We owe it to the patient to explore the reasons behind the “no,” commonly not wanting to be a burden to their family. And the sort of the ask was, “Oh yeah, you can talk to the family, right?

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My Green Doctor

JULY 2, 2025

Here we suggest steps that healthcare managers and clinicians can take to protect their patents. We hope you will discover resources to share with your family as well! It is time to transform healthcare systems to be climate resilient. All rights reserved. Contact us: member.services@mygreendoctor.og

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. And one of the hardest things is to distill it down to a sentence or two about what is information, what does it mean? And then be quiet and listen.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

First, a clinician’s thoughts must be encoded into words, then transmitted often via sounds, and finally decoded back to thoughts by a patient or family member. Eric: Well, this is the part that I love about your article, too, is that it’s not just these big, big family meetings where miscommunication happens. Simple, right?

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

For instance, a family meeting or an update or communication with families. I’ve worked in palliative care for years, and there’s some times where I’m in the family meeting, I’m facilitating the family meeting, and then I’m reporting out to the referring doctors, and I say, what happened?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. This is Eric Widera.

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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. Other states set lower bars, including oral assignment of surrogate decision-makers. ICU care was pretty rudimentary.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. The more we can notice that, the more we can actually be present for that family and actually see how they’re experiencing it.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. I was really passionate about helping the people and also their families. Let’s say, family-centered care for heart and lung disease wasn’t really going on a few decades ago.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. 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. Katie: Thanks for the opportunity.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

It is really difficult for the patients and the families. They do choose to rely more on their family and parents in ways that might feel like a step backwards and is yet, still developmentally appropriate and autonomous. The family dynamics are different though. Abby: Yeah. Andrea: I agree entirely, Eric.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Eloise 10:29 Yeah, I think what we saw in California was, prior to legalization, there was curiosity, but also a lot of their healthcare professionals didn’t know enough about it, so they didn’t discuss it with them. David 12:31 Yeah, if you believe the results of an informal. Where can we get good information?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

” Somehow, there’s this signal that the patients and families had to pick up that maybe the surgeon wasn’t so enthusiastic, or if I just dump risk on them, maybe they’ll say, “I don’t want this.” What I need to navigate with that patient and their family, is it valuable to you? Every time.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Charlotta: Yeah, I think it will be in reducing the need to spend so many hours on documentation and looking through the EHR for information. And what we are seeing in our research is that, we’re working on GPT four, is volunteering information that we didn’t ask for. The information there and you limit it in that way.

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