Medical Xpress

JANUARY 18, 2023

Researchers from Rutgers and other universities have developed a behavioral model that explains a long-standing health care mystery: Why do so many terminally ill patients undergo intense last-ditch treatments with little chance of meaningful life extension?

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Research from a West Virginia University family systems expert shows children who don't live with both married biological or adoptive parents may have more difficulty accessing health care.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 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

MAY 4, 2023

We remember bucking the rules, figuring out who you are, hair on fire, feeling invulnerable, trying to figure out who you are – and now those adolescents are stuck in the hospital, with doctors and parents telling them what to do, having their autonomy crushed by the medical institution, realizing they’re not invulnerable. Abby: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Eric: I also wonder, thinking about our own medical school training, at least mine, is that there wasn’t a lot of normalizing emotions in our med school. There’s so many elements of a patient that’s hospitalized or going through our medical system. What medications are the patient on? We’ll act it out.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

A friend of GeriPal, and prior guest, Guy Micco commented today that we need an RCT for chaplaincy is like the idea that the humanities need to justify their value in medical training: “It’s like being told to measure the taste of orange juice with a ruler.” Really important person, who later in his life got very interested in healthcare.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Janet Abrahm is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care. I wanted to ask you about some medications that are sort of hot medications, that only palliative care experts seem to know a lot about.

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