Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Global healthcare systems are not prepared to care for the 55 million individuals worldwide affected by Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), with cases continuing to rise. clinical consensus, financing mechanisms) and the organization (e.g.,

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

As I continue onward in my journey writing a physician finance guide one chapter at a time, I wanted to tackle investing. This will come as no surprise to most healthcare workers. How, then, can any physician find the time to research individual companies and make educated decisions on which publicly traded businesses are undervalued?

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Last, but not least, I genuinely felt as if I was running out of ways to provide useful and entertaining financial content. My passion for writing personal finance content was losing way to productivity and the compulsion to keep up with my competitors. Keeping a personal finance blog is a tricky thing. Anyone can do it.

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The decision to rent or buy a home is the root of much anxiety in many individuals’ lives. I found this to be true in my life, and I think that for those in healthcare professions with prolonged training, it can be even more difficult. This week, we will tackle choosing to rent or buy a home in 2025. Stay tuned!

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

However, this is a personal finance blog, and for me, it goes beyond that. Helene highlighted that even wealthy communities and well-financed and well-educated populations can be caught off guard and devastated. I do not mean to paint such a grim picture, but I want to provide a healthy dose of realism.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 7, 2024

I am heartbroken for the communities affected by this storm and for our fellow healthcare providers who are either dealing with this in their personal lives or having to navigate recovery as part of their careers. Standard Disclaimer: None of the information on this website is meant as individualized financial or medical advice.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For the better half of 2024, I have been periodically writing posts that are individual articles that double as potential chapters to a future book. I have coined this content series Doctor Money: A Personal Finance Guide for Physicians , as this is my current working title. This is the same for personal finances.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 14: Race, Place, and Health: Clinician and Community Perspectives Show Notes by Alec Calac February 15th, 2022 Summary: This episode highlights how racism manifests in the built environment, and how community and individual-level efforts can mitigate these inequities. Be curious.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. So smaller settings, which is a problem with efficiency too. Mike, you’re nodding your head no.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

My favorite line from Emily’s paper: “Geriatric assent has not been widely adopted in clinical care, but bioethicists should advocate for this, as adoption of partial-involvement strategies can prolong the period in which individuals are (appropriately) engaged in decisions about their health care.” I’m not going to talk about finances.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

It does seem that if communities, particularly historically marginalized communities, are interested in ACP, that fact should carry some weight in how resources are allocated to research and health care financing. And then individuals will still have questions of really, how can I help my wishes to be known?

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? So it’s, you know, nursing homes are part of the healthcare sector, but they’re also part of the social care sector in the same building. So the palliative care service doesn’t necessarily need to provide those potentially.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. I mean, I don’t want to speak to your healthcare system and what’s happened, but that to me seems inappropriate. So for primary care providers, you order that blood test, you own that. Nate 19:49 Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Well, I’m a geriatric nurse practitioner and I provided care to over 800 nursing home residents in 11 different nursing homes. I was really struck by the difference in care provided to people with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death.

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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.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Eric 12:03 I’m interested in that because I hear a lot about people losing their, like, one way, like people get health issue and then lose all their finances, especially in the U.S. Those are all things that could dramatically be a major health shock for an individual. So let’s put a pin in that. Alex 14:28 Yeah, yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How is it financed and what comes next? And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. I think Bruce can speak to that, I think, 30-year gap in finances. I trained at Hopkins. It took us a year to get that through.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

On April 1, the Trump administration slashed the organization that supported that research — the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ — and fired roughly half of its remaining employees as part of a perplexing reorganization of the federal Health and Human Services Department. Nobody does these things except AHRQ,” she said.

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