Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

The emergency room has become a pressure cooker, and healthcare professionals are paying the price. A trauma-informed, evidence-based violence prevention program, ESD equips healthcare workers with skills to prevent, interrupt, and recover from interpersonal violence. The Warner Bros.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

Relaying information between patients and providers. Effective communication skills: Medical office assistants must clearly communicate with patients, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Booking, rescheduling, or canceling appointments. Maintaining accurate and organized records.

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Rao Doctor

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Understanding the fundamental aspects of fever is crucial for effective management and treatment. Understanding the diverse causes of fever is essential for appropriate management and intervention, ensuring that the root issue is correctly identified and treated. We will learn more about Fever and its management in my next part.

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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. Also Read: What Is Nutrition Counseling and How it Can Help You Achieve Your Weight Management Goals Who Should Consider Intermittent Fasting? What Is Intermittent Fasting? However, it’s not for everyone.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

APRIL 12, 2025

Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the field will grow by 15 percent from 2023 to 2033 , which is higher than the average for roles that provide support to healthcare professionals. Typical tasks may include: Recording information in patients’ medical records. Providing prescription information to pharmacies.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

The episode also explores how digital tools can help youth manage their mental health, while also noting the need for culturally relevant care providers. A Culturally Informed Approach to Supporting Suicidal Minoritized Patients. Disclosures The hosts and guests report no relevant financial disclosures. References 1. 2022.01.002 4.

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Save this much, withdrawal at this rate, diversify your portfolio, guard against disaster, et cetera, et cetera… Though I absolutely love writing about my personal finance journey, I also felt like I had shared much of the information necessary for physicians to easily amass wealth and avoid overly risky investments. The Motivated M.D.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But that combination is actually quite common, and it’s quite challenging to diagnose and manage, at least in the traditional sense. That can be incredibly informative.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

The company has expanded its palliative care services through partnerships with hospitals and other managed care providers, according to AccentCare CEO Stephan Rodgers. Eric: Here’s our contact information. We’ve got a very large palliative care practice,” Rodgers told PCN. Eric: Buying GeriPal podcasts. Alex: Nursing homes.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of life care Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

But the thing that really motivates me is seeing, you know, and trying to manage later stage, you know, we can call them complications of people who haven’t had a diagnosis are now really in, you know, a world of complexity around other conditions, around managing life and managing practical things.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

And this paper really gave us some important insights into older adults’ priorities about medication use that can inform these conversations. Ariel’s on the optimized team, and her work on how to help clinicians talk to patients about deprescribing informed the content of those tip sheets, which was great. Eric: Can I ask?

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. So, we use that information to formulate a treatment plan. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Just found that this was a really easy, low budget way of informing people about the medication, about the potential harms, and they were a captive audience in the hospital. All we were doing providing information and we did give a brief overview via email to the clinicians, basically saying, hey, your patients might come in with this.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

Eric: Drew, what I’m also hearing from you though in your post is maybe there’s something different about people doing primary palliative care and pain management versus specialty palliative care. Part of my proposal is, again, that we can actually use very similar information. And the level of knowledge they need to know.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

So that’s one, this patient-centered geriatric assessment and management approach. ” And the environment that we worked in, in geriatrics, was more of this sharing information and different groups or calling. I spent so much time trying to talk to others to find out this information.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

There are widely varying figures, ranging from 66% to 90% depending on the source of information.) As, based on the results of my whole genome sequencing , I have a moderate risk for melanoma, a reliable and easily accessible source of information could be incredibly useful for me, too, thus I tried to find the best tools possible.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

But two, a very close relationship with potentially the palliative care physician or the individual who’s Sort of managing their pain, because the simulation itself can be 20 to 30 minutes of lying in that specific treatment position. So we need to have a discussion upfront about how we’re managing the patient’s pain.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. This information can help pinpoint possible causes of illness and guide further investigations. What are the Management and Treatment Options in a case of fever? And I do this regularly.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to focus upstream on the decision to initiate dialysis vs conservative kidney management. For example, with peritoneal dialysis and conservative management.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

There are a lot of old myths out there about managing urinary tract symptoms and UTI’s in older adults. Then we chat with Scott Bauer, internist and researcher at UCSF, about how to assess and manage lower urinary tract symptoms in men. I appreciate that information. Lots of information in there.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. Regular check-ups ensure early detection of health issues.

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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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My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

We must transform healthcare into a frontline responder for climate resilience. This means: Direct influence: Training healthcare professionals to understand and manage the growing connections between environment and illness. Because sustainable healthcare isn’t optional—it’s essential.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. However, there are “Red Flag” symptoms that require urgent evaluation and management.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. Jessie: Thank you.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? Alex 12:24 So one in ten people who said they were using it told their healthcare provider, and the other nine out of ten did not. Is that your feeling, too?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. And so there’s complexity in Understanding how each state manages this. So on the clinical side, people are really focused on how long do they have to be on the ventilator and managing that.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 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 have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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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? Is the sort of task to manage.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Because I read every national guideline around palliative care and each one says we should be identifying and managing psychological and psychiatric aspects of serious illness.

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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. I mean, we work at a different part of the health system a lot of times, although we have acute care therapists who do the same thing, but the gap in information flow is similar.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Whether they have a social worker, a nurse, a physician, an NP on the team, they know what to do with that information. DorAnne 30:25 I also wanna make a shout out for pain and symptom management with social work and chaplains. So we totally forget that all of us are symptom managers as well. So that’s one idea.

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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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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. I can get you guys that information.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

And it’s with this information from the geriatric assessment that we can really create interventions, and so that’s something that Alex and I strongly believe that we should move forward with. We have the chemo talks tool posted, so people can go there and click and immediately get the information about this.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We discuss the principles of harm reduction, social determinants of health, and trauma informed care. By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. On bias and trauma as you.

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