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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

In our third segment, we explore Amy Linskys study that examined the effect of patient-directed educational materials on clinician deprescribing of potentially low-benefit or high-risk medications, such as proton pump inhibitors, high-dose gabapentin, or risky diabetes medications. Of the medication. So we did primary care.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

Here, we collected the top dermatology apps to aid your digital skin care. There are widely varying figures, ranging from 66% to 90% depending on the source of information.) Usually, patients go to their primary care physician for advice or try to ask in the pharmacy on the corner what the smiling pharmacists recommend.

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

And I was particularly drawn to the cancer patient population and really thinking about that integration into standard care. There were a number of opportunities to be involved in medical oncology and doing medical oncology rotations as a medical student, as an internal medicine residential.

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A family physician's response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade

Vida Family Medicine

I care deeply about each and every one of my patients, and I do not want a difference in opinion to create a wedge in our relationship. When I was a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine, I participated in their Ethics track.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. So at least in my practice, that’s often how this has happened, unless these conversations have taken place beforehand, either in the emergency room or with primary care providers. Absolutely. Julien: Lauren, I totally agree with you.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

And the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. It was specific to the relationship with the patient, the patient’s social context in which they might take this information. I don’t need to know how to bill, to enter encounter information to code. Bob: Yeah.

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