Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

They also provide immunizations and lifestyle advice tailored to your specific needs. It creates a continuous health history that benefits both you and your provider. They're designed to provide quick, efficient medical attention for conditions that require timely care but aren't life-threatening.

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Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In medicine, it is commonly agreed that ‘to err is human’ Most healthcare professionals would agree that humans make mistakes. ’ Though it often does not come with the attending salary, medical trainees are getting paid to perform a service, and hospitals provide retirement plans to these individuals.

Finance 52

Finance Individual Education Healthcare Professional 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 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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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 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.

IT 137

IT Family Families Physicals 137

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

So in our trial, because of security reasons, we are required by Health Canada to store the substance in a special secure area in my office. This hypothesis Played itself out in an interesting way, Ali John 11:15 Thinking about total pain and addressing physical, emotional, social, and spiritual issues. James 01:34 Yeah, right on.

Illness 107

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 107

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it. Do you worry about that? We actually have the majority.

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

And for many years, I think there was a focus on physicians and then providers. Gordon 12:01 One absolute right answer to all these questions, and we will provide that. And my grandkid, like, I need you to see this child and, like, how wonderful and special they are. All right, experts, are you ready? Anne 11:57 Scenario uno.

IT 132

IT Illness Family Families 132

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

My voice is nothing special. A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. He’s bringing in, like, a physical record player, but now also in hospice units as well, they’re bringing out music players with headphones.

IT 97

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

JULY 11, 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.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 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.

IT 126

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

So when I make a cartoon, usually I’m sending it to a few people before it’s ever seeing the light of social media, to make sure it’s not going to come across as insensitive either to patients or to my fellow providers. And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars. Nathan: Yeah.

IT 145

IT Hospital Patients Illness 145

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Trauma is a universal experience, and our approach as health care providers to trauma should be universal as well. Kate and Ashwin talked about their research on the prevalence of lifetime trauma and its association with physical and psychosocial health among adults at the end of life. Eric 04:19 Yeah.

IT 67

IT Patient-Centered Individual Patients 67

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address it. Midnight special shine a light on me or let the midnight special shine a light on me let the midnight special shine another loving light on me.” Keep yourself physically as active as possible.

Illness 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

For example, we once thought that the lower urinary tract was sterile, but we now know it has its own microbiome, which may even provide protection against infections. We’ve invited some very special guests to talk about the lower urinary tract – Christine Kistler and Scott Bauer. . They may send a culture. Chrissy: Yeah.

Management 122

Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Why focus on the public rather than other health care providers? How do they deal with professional barriers and the barrage of comments? How you actually physically started doing this and built up so many followers over time and why are you doing it? I do think other healthcare providers need to learn about this.

Education 127

Education IT Illness Healthcare 127

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. If we can be a little bit more holistic and think through what are the medicines that are going to provide the greatest bang for your buck and get rid of the stuff that probably isn’t going to do anything. Transcript Eric 00:00 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Alex 45:43 Okay.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Eric 01:44 And we’re going to be talking about the roots of palliative care, and I think importantly, not just looking back, but what does that mean for our future as hospice and palliative care providers. Are we losing that thing that makes palliative care special, that Dame Cicely Saunders talks about those. Balfour amount.

IT 104

IT Patient-Centered Family Families 104

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. I was really struck by the difference in care provided to people with advanced dementia.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. All these studies in this fringe… We want the special key. And oftentimes the existential landscape of serious illness, there’s no special thing.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And also it’s a little bit of an insult to one’s identity to feel like if this special person in your life can be forgotten, then you can be forgotten. But our living memory home is a way to both maintain that connection, because that’s the fear is that you’re going to lose this connection to this very special person.

IT 100

IT Complication Relationship Specialization 100

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? Or there’s physical symptom needs. Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? By diagnosis? By prognosis?

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 99

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: The problem is we communicate late, we share prognosis late, we elicit goals and values late, so all the time while they’re in the ICU getting prolonged intensive care, we don’t really know that we’re providing goal concordant care, so we wanted to nudge it a little upstream. Eric: Nudge it. Kate: Nudge it.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing. The hope is having help for you and your family and support and not being physically uncomfortable.

Illness 101

Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

They have a special skill, and when they see someone who needs it, they need to use it. That makes it really special for them and for me. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information. And it bothers me how the nurses are there, the physical therapists are there, some of the social workers are there.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I actually wonder though, since we’re on a GeriPal broadcast, I think that people are under emphasizing the special risk of older people. What do we do to very concretely provide heat shelters and cool shelters? The Inflation Reduction Act provides enormous tax benefits to people who get heat pumps or put solar on their roofs.

Healthcare 129

Healthcare IT Education Community 129

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Haider: Yeah, this is a special song. Like yourself, when I was a resident, and pain has been shaped in our mind as being a purely physical sensation, especially on the clinical side, where this idea that pain is complex and that pain is as much an emotion as much as physical sensation is not really something we are trained to do.

Patient-Centered 106

Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 106

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

This question, while providing an opportunity to talk about direct and indirect experiences, can be asked of all patients, and opens the door to conversations about anti-semitism, islamophobia, or anti-Black racism. And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. So we actually included that in our survey.

Mental Health 116

Mental Health Community IT Screening 116

GeriPal

JULY 25, 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.

Family 106

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so a lot of it was the facilitators calling out with the approval of the provider to the patients ahead of time to see, like, you have a visit coming up. And that included scheduling a visit with a, with a facilitator who had been specially trained. This is what I do here. We’re just trying to do this for all patients.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Think about CPC+.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. These were usually very physically demanding, low paid, often usually non-union work, that they worked their whole lives and were hanging on by their fingernails. Margot: Yes. The folks who were first homeless after 50 had incredibly different life stories.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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. And the treatments are different than what hospice might provide in the home setting. And some things are, actually, more expensive to provide in the home, right? Tacara: Exactly.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And so I’m not sure if this is true for Joe or for Brooke, but even before the pandemic in our practice here, we saw somewhere around 40 to 50% of our patients via telemedicine anyway, because we have a catchment area of patients who live very far away, many of whom have a lot of physical disability and other limitations to coming in person.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73