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Researchers Propose Solutions to Improve GLP-1 RA Access

Physician's Weekly

Waldrop, MD , and colleagues identified barriers to obesity medications more broadly—and potential solutions. Healthcare Professionals Among healthcare professionals, potential barriers include lack of education, safety concerns, and obesity stigma/weight bias. They published their insights in Nature Medicine.

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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

Recent data shows that about half of physicians (45.2%) reported symptoms of burnout in 2023 —and according to a 2023 study published in the “Journal of the American Medical Association,” one-third of surveyed doctors considered leaving medicine behind.

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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

Elizabeth: Then we had in the pragmatic way of design of the study, we had to assume that people who had caregivers who were integral to their mail management and their medical care were likely to open the mail that came from their medical provider, so that the caregivers would also read the brochure. Eric: Yeah.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

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Anne: Well, just to add, and I think the way the healthcare system is structured is that if we did want to try it that way, my guess is, Barbara, we’ve got to have enough buy-in from the medical providers to give it a go. Barbara: You do. And we have to have a different funding stream, frankly. Thank you very, very much.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

I remember early on just being amazed by how I would go into a room and my perception, I’m not a medical provider, going into the room was like, oh wow, I have this sick old person laying in bed. And I’ve had that happen. Oh my gosh. Just go to www.geripal.org.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

I remember early on just being amazed by how I would go into a room and my perception, I’m not a medical provider, going into the room was like, oh wow, I have this sick old person laying in bed. Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Because I feel like as a medical provider of taking care of somebody, the man in the hallway, I’ve known that person for 15 years. The post Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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