Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

Cost-sharing interventions and patient education can help improve access to GLP-1 receptor agonists for patients with obesity, according to an abstract presented at the AACE Annual Meeting 2025. The patient was enrolled in a cost-sharing program that reduced her out-of-pocket expenses by 70%, allowing her to access the medication.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Visits were largely scheduled individual visits (85%), provided in person (70%), and involving psychotherapy (90%). Patients were seen by the BHPs for a wide variety of presenting concerns. Results: 76 patient visits were conducted during the observation period by BHPs.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Today we are coming back for more (or less given the content), talking about the following articles with their lead authors: First up, we talk with Ariel Green about her article in JAMA Network on preferred phrases a clinician may use to explain why they should reduce or stop the medication. That’s huge! Welcome, Ariel. Ariel: Thanks.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. It’s a first Department of Health Social Work in a medical school in the country.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA. So I allow family members to be present if they want them to. Wonderful work.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. Well, being a pretty comprehensive definition.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

And then we also have another Vas, many of the interviews are done by medical students or other healthcare trainees as part of their clinical rotation at the VA. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual. That’s fine. Oh my gosh.

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