Noreta Family Medicine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Vonnegut’s book took me on an entertaining and insightful journey, ranging from very short and hilarious tales of his interactions with his pediatric patients and their parents, to longer chapters where he laments both the disappearance of private practice primary care offices and the loss of physician control in the healthcare system.

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GomerBlog

DECEMBER 27, 2020

TARGET POPULATION: Not medical students. The COVID-19 vaccines do not come with a musical theme, something which has drawn the ire of healthcare personnel and gamers alike. An Invincibility Star is reserved only for Mario, maybe Luigi. BACKGROUND MUSIC: The Invincibility Star is accompanied with a musical theme.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

In This Issue : Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Medical Waste: One Model for Improvement OnTrack with your Sustainability Goals? Powering Health, Protecting the Planet – Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Healthcare professionals have always been trusted voices on public health.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

Author: Ishani Majmudar Medical waste is rising tremendously each year, and its implications are not slight. Medical waste is a broad term used to describe any waste products generated at healthcare facilities and includes everything ranging from the disposal of small needles to the energy consumption of radiologic scans.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Any healthcare professional would benefit from some Medelita gear, so head over to their website and treat the physician in your life. I bought a few of these socks (and was also gifted some by my little brother) when I was a medical student, and to this day I still wear the same socks with great compression. Happy December!

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Its another deprescribing super special on today’s GeriPal Podcast, where we delve into the latest research on deprescribing medications prescribed to older adults. Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

Summary Transcript Summary. A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid). How do you do that? Do you do what I do, pull out a handy-dandy opioid equianalgesic table to give you a guide on how much to convert to? . which advocates for an updated, wait for it… equianalgesic table! . Drew: Yeah.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Their success is understandable : they offer a fast and easy method to check any skin conditions, typically for a fraction of the cost of a traditional healthcare appointment. (*There are widely varying figures, ranging from 66% to 90% depending on the source of information.) Cureskin aims to help alleviate the situation.

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The Physicians Foundation

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Urgent Need for Solutions to Improve State of Current and Future Physician Wellbeing BOSTON, September 17, 2024 – The Physicians Foundation issued data today showing that the state of wellbeing remains critically low for physicians, with healthcare consolidation exacerbating the issue.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology. I was really fascinated not only with the medical side of things, but some of the. Emily, welcome to GeriPal. Emily 00:32 It’s good to be here. Evie, welcome to GeriPal. Evie 00:41 Thank you.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Summary Transcript Summary. We’ve talked at length on prior podcasts about the failures of aducnumab, Biogen, and the FDA’s decision to approve it. . But wait, there’s a shiny new anti-amyloid drug, lecanemab! (No No it’s not just the French version of Aducanumab). . In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!)

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

When you think about leadership and we think about health care, we still live in a healthcare system that has a hierarchy. And so there are different levels of power within our healthcare system. by: Anne Kelly, LCSW, APHSW-C. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Barbara: Yes.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. I’ve seen this question come up a lot since finishing fellowship nearly two decades ago.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . My Life, My Story: VA’s healthcare improvements through deliberate storytelling – YouTube. Summary Transcript Summary. Wonderful work.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Well-being committees are popping up at every level of an organization. And C-suites now have chief wellness officers sitting at the table. Eric 01:54 Why’d you pick this song, Naomi? Naomi 01:57 Because it really talks about this beautiful experience of our beloved, which is ourselves, the part that we often cut out of the equation.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2022

When I was a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine, I participated in their Ethics track. This included additional classes in medical ethics as well as a scholarly project examining the medical ethics of a specific clinical situation.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Medical communication is tough, although fundamentally at its most basic unit of delivery, it includes really only three steps. First, a clinician’s thoughts must be encoded into words, then transmitted often via sounds, and finally decoded back to thoughts by a patient or family member. Simple, right? Eric: Yeah?

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

The audience doesn’t know what happens next, and whether he can survive the procedure, not to speak about living in a society where every one of his friends and relatives is dead, and people live a completely different way of life than he was used to. The brief history of cryonics That’s precisely the basic idea of cryonics.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). But does this drug really live up to the hype? Right, Katie?

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Alex: We are honored to welcome Dr. Rajagopal, who goes by Raj, who is the author of Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Healthcare. Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. Social pain and loneliness. Community-based palliative care networks .

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Justin Sanders wants to be sure the newer generations of palliative care clinicians understand the early principles and problems that animated the founders of hospice and palliative care, including: Origins of the word palliative – its not what I thought! If you read just one, read Palliative Medicine – Just Another Specialty ?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And I think the crisis that we’re in right now in healthcare delivery, the idea of laying down my badge, I think that’s maybe a metaphor for being a sheriff, but what about being a healthcare provider? So most of our medical schools have simulation centers. Amber: I do. You know what? Alex: That’s great.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As Keri put it in the podcast, we must go beyond “a hammer and a nail” philosophy to approaching anger by developing a toolkit for anger that is vast and varied. Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? Is that you Dani? Dani: It is me. laughter] Alex: Not at all.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The instructor, Fran Cook , gave all the students a survey without explanation. Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. And so, it’s about going live on stage in the medical audience, and everything from the whiteboard in the surgery room saying, “Here’s the lineup. The first guest is Liz Salmi. Eric: Lucky Strike.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. Today we talk with Josh about how to anticipate and avoid the uncanny valley. And talk about times when we’ve fallen into it. . Key message: Listen to the music. All the time. ;). We’ll have links to it.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. First, the lyrics, that’s the main reason why I chose it. The theme is death. LaVera: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome you to the GeriPal Podcast, Julien Cobert, who is an intensivist and aging researcher GeriPal Podcast, Julien. Julien: Thanks Alex, thanks Eric. It’s great to be here. Eric: So we’re going to be talking about aging in the ICU. Chris Cornell is one of my favorite musicians. Alex: (Singing).

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

As BJ MIller writes in the foreword, “ May this book be a portal — a way for us to move beyond the unwise territory of trying to ‘do it right’ and into the transcendent terrain of noticing what we can notice, loving who we love, and letting death — like life –surprise us with its ineffable beauty. I got questions. Thank you, Alex.

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GeriPal

MARCH 31, 2022

So we are delighted today to welcome Marilyn McEntyre, who’s a longtime teacher of literature and medical humanities. Who is a long time teacher in the joint medical program, now Emeritus. Joint medical program is between UC Berkeley and UCSF. I was a medical student there some 25 years ago or so.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. But before we go into all of that, I think, Bill, you have a song request for Alex. Bill 01:52 I do. Here we go.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Skepticism on the ability of predictive models to transform healthcare Consolidation of EHR’s into the hands of a very few companies, and potential for the drug and device industry to influence care delivery by tweaking AI in ways that are not transparent and already a sort of magical black box. Eric: Well, we have a lot of talk about.

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

So this week we’re going to be talking about writing for the lay public, and next week we’ll be publishing a podcast on writing for healthcare providers. How do you find time to write and also be doctors and academic professors? In all seriousness, you don’t actually have to want to write a book to be interested in this podcast.

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Doctors for America

MAY 5, 2025

HIPAA is a decades-old law that provides the foundation for medical privacy and is critical for doctor-patient trust. Democracy Forward is committed to representing clients in defending and expanding access to reproductive healthcare and ensuring that Americans can seek care without fear of political interference.”

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 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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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Sometimes you read a book and get a flash of insight – that “ah ha!” moment – about yourself and the ways you interact with others. That happened to me when reading “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.” So I came across this book and found it very helpful.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

And then one day when I was in my third year of medical school, I was in the gym and I hurt my back in a really horrific way. We discussed the nature of pain, what makes chronic pain different from acute pain, what’s the difference between proprioception, pain, and suffering, and so much more. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Haider.

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