Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. 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.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We started pre-pandemic and very quickly it went to telehealth, so it was primarily telehealth. Most places had one visit that had to be face-to-face because of prescribing and regulatory issues, but it was primarily telehealth. I’m just stunned even writing that! We’ve come so far as a field. Eric: Okay. It was very difficult.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 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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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

So, you know, using telehealth companies to shuttle patients to neurologists who will, you know, prescribe the drug with questionable oversight. And this complete lack of attention to the real needs of persons with dementia is really kind of a shameful part of US healthcare. Ken 19:41 Amen. CME This episode is not CME eligible.

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IT Hospital Screening Patients 64

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? Marie 16:30 I actually don’t think it matters if you can establish rapport and if you do good telehealth etiquette, which is seeing who else is in the room, addressing everybody that was there, et cetera. Would you do it again?

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Family 63

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Whether that means we need to have more visits with you via telehealth or in person, whether we need to get you in with a substance use counselor, like a harm reduction counselor, whether it means that they’re really worried now about the opioids you’re prescribing. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) .

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Caroline: And I love how you highlight the importance of these staff biases, perhaps implicit bias that is driving some of these healthcare decisions. That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. Caroline: Certainly, the pandemic has certainly catalyzed the use of telehealth. Ruth: Absolutely.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

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. Eric 33:25 What about telehealth? If you have 100 beds in the building, 20 of them today might be rehabbed people who are there. But they need to know they’ll be impactful.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

We do talk about healthcare policy. Jessica 38:40 Yeah, I’m thinking about just, you know, in the mental health provider space, you know, telehealth, it’s become huge. And also the language concordance has been an issue, I think, for both in person and telehealth care. We’re not a general policy podcast.

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Mental Health Community Screening IT 116

FDA Law

JUNE 1, 2025

The Protecting Patients from Deceptive Drug Ads Online Act, co-sponsored with Senator Mike Braun (R-IN), seeks to close regulatory gaps by empowering FDA to issue Warning Letters and impose fines on social media influencers and telehealth companies that promote prescription drugs without proper disclosures of risks and side effects.

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Healthcare Professional Manufacturing Healthcare Utilities 59

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

This DEA is taking 6-months to consider how to move forward vis a vis restrictions and requirements for telehealth in a post-pandemic world. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness. Brooke: So I think of telehealth as the umbrella. Now is the time to act, dear listeners!

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