GomerBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In a joint statement today, the CDC and FDA wanted to remind vaccinated healthcare workers should they develop a sudden onset of positivity or an acute facial defect known as a smile to seek medical attention immediately. “These symptoms have ceased to exist since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, so it is indeed alarming. .

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied The study collected data from family physicians, nurse practitioners, and adult patients of the clinic. Data was collected from patients following their primary care visit using a survey and medical records, and from providers using a pre- and post-intervention survey, a focus group, and screening records.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Some participants described being "sheltered" from the realities of administrative burden during medical school and residency, leaving them unprepared to manage multiple administrative tasks. physician assistants, nurse practitioners) to help "de-clutter the inbox" and manage referrals.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Primary care clinicians with prescribing privileges including physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners (N=58). Setting: Two health care systems in New York City. Instrument: Self-administered survey.

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GomerBlog

JANUARY 23, 2021

Las Vegas, NV – With COVID still raging across the country, medical professionals of all walks have been looking for ways to burn off some steam. Naturopath: Just like in an actual medical emergency, I’m useless in the bedroom, but I think echinacea can help that! ENT: Like the Weber test, I lateral one toward bad conduct!

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Barton Associates

JUNE 2, 2025

While nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians have benefited from interstate medical licensure compacts that make it easy to get licensed in a new state, physician assistants (PAs) haven’t been so lucky—until now. Not sure how the PA licensure compact will affect you? What is the PA Licensure Compact?

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Diminishing Workforce: Primary care clinician shortages worsen access to care The number of primary care clinicians, including physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician assistants (PAs), decreased from 105.7 Key findings include: 1. health spending, with spending on Medicare falling to 3.4% and Medicaid to 4.3%.

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Barton Associates

MAY 15, 2025

One of the best ways to get yourself out of a slump and put some more excitement into your life is to travel—and if you’re a medical professional, taking a locum tenens position offers exactly that. So, as summer heats up, what are the best states for travel healthcare positions?

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2025

Julie joins HPM after working at an intellectual property law firm, where she prosecuted and counseled clients on patent portfolios in the medical device and biotechnology sectors. Before her legal career, Julie worked as a nurse practitioner specializing in neurosurgery and infectious diseases.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Life happens fast, and sometimes, so do medical issues. Understanding Its Role in Healthcare Urgent care clinics are designed to handle non-life-threatening situations that still require timely medical attention. After an evaluation, we were able to prescribe the right medication and suggest follow-up care with her gynecologist.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast, Stephanie Rogers, who’s a geriatrician and medical director of UCSF’s, age-friendly health systems. Which patients are eligible to go to an ACE unit? What are the benefits of an ACE unit? If ACE units are so great, why are they not so common? . Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Palliative Care the Next Generation: How the Service May Grow and Evolve AccentCare , a portfolio company of private equity firm Advent International, is another example. The company has expanded its palliative care services through partnerships with hospitals and other managed care providers, according to AccentCare CEO Stephan Rodgers. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. What are the risks and rewards of new classes of medications? Happy to be here.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Pregnant with her second child, she schleps a backpack instead of a traditional black bag to carry a laptop and essential medical supplies — stethoscope, blood pressure cuff, and pulse oximeter. ” Nurse practitioners are having those conversations more and more as their patient base trends older. .

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. Think about the last time you attended a talk on communication skills or goals of care discussions. I’m guessing not. Over-the-counter hearing aids: What will it mean for older Americans?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Coaching is in. During the later stages of the pandemic, it seemed every other person, and particularly the junior faculty in our Division, were either being coached, in training to coach, or coaching others. When I was a junior faculty, coaching wasn’t a thing. We address: What is coaching? This is Eric Widera.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

Like Fry, more people would be forced to pay for health expenses out-of-pocket, leading to delays in care, lost access to needed doctors and medications, and poorer physical and financial health. “The effects could be catastrophic,” said Jennifer Tolbert, deputy director of KFF’s Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured. .

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Mere Mortal MD

MAY 22, 2025

Then there are all the nurses and nursing aides interrupting what little sleep you are trying to get, as well as the doctors, physician assistants, or nurse practitioners breeze into and out of your room so fast your hair stirs in the wind. Though usually not so comfortable that they don’t want to leave.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to postpone medical appointments until something feels wrong. Preventive Care Strategies That Save Lives in Mesa, Arizona Our experienced team of physicians and nurse practitioners at Mesa Family Physicians understands the unique health challenges facing our local community.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Alex 00:30 And we are also delighted to welcome Eloise Theisen, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner at Stanford and CEO and co- c ounder of Radical Health Clinician Network, which helps patients use cannabis to treat chronic and age related illness. Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. Eric 01:34 Yeah.

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Pamela Wible MD

MAY 22, 2025

Our Physician Support Groups Every Sunday Physician Peer Support (11 am PT) Suffering from bullying, betrayal, exhaustion, medical mistakes, grief, guilt, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? Many physicians facing sensitive challenges such as board investigations, PHP enrollment, or medical errors prefer to remain anonymous. We can help. (90

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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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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren. Lauren: Thanks for having me. Is it you, Ira?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. Summary Transcript Summary.

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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?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alex 01:32 For us, answering that question today, we have Joe Greer, who’s a psychologist and associate professor of psychology at MGH and Harvard Medical School. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out! Travel time can leave this champ vulnerable to fatigue and no-shows.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Alex 01:23 And we’re delighted to welcome DorAnne Donesky, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner at Queen of the Valley Medical center in Napa and professor emeritus at the UCSF School of Nursing. Show me your scars.” Scars, really? I’ve been there. You probably have too. Michelle, welcome to GeriPal.

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ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

The group discussed policy shifts and potential implications for graduate medical education and health equity. Dr. McDonald acknowledged that recent executive orders have emphasized more competition in medical and legal education accreditation, but reaffirmed ABIM’s commitment to evidence-based practice and health equity.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Alex: Today we’re delighted to welcome Jerry Gurwitz, who is a geriatrician and professor of medicine at the UMass Chan Medical School. I’ve seen this question come up a lot since finishing fellowship nearly two decades ago. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Jerry, welcome to GeriPal. Jerry: Great to be here.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Yael, welcome to GeriPal.

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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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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

It is intended for clinicians (primary care, physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and oral health practitioners) who provide pain care to outpatients aged 18 years or older with acute pain (lasting less than a month), subacute pain (lasting 1-3 months) or chronic pain (lasting more than 3 months) in outpatient settings.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so as you think about the conditions that mean that you need care and support in a nursing home, it’s easy to see why many of us feel that palliative care, there are a lot of palliative care needs of nursing home residents just because of the nature of the conditions and reasons that got you there. Alex 02:09 Well, oops.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Lastly, we discuss Katie’s paper on substance use disorder in an aging population and how one can incorporate the 5 Ms (ie, matters most, medications, mind, mobility, and multicomplexity) into a framework for age-friendly care for older adults with substance use disorder. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

6-week Medical Student Externship - Medical Student Externship Report – Molly Mann, MS2 2023 July – August "My externship experience consisted of shadowing Dr. Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit. Der Simonian and her patients.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome S a ch Kale, who is a palliative care doc at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. But my medical training kicked in. Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). See Sachs write up about setting up this clinic in JPSM.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. Summary Transcript Summary.

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