FDA Law Blog

MAY 8, 2023

The discussion paper described a PCCP as including (1) the types of anticipated modifications (SaMD Pre-Specifications or SPS) based on the retraining and model update strategy and (2) the associated methodology (Algorithm Change Protocol or ACP) being used to implement those changes in a controlled manner to manage patient risks.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

So, every single [inaudible 00:05:10] there is per the table, in an equianalgesic relationship to one another. Drew: The problem with equianalgesic tables is that every one of those relationships is fixed and bidirectional. Is that the way the tables are structured? That’s one aspect of it. And then going along with that-.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

And I quickly found myself in a role of access lead for Orange County and where I managed over 300 doctors. So pointing people in the right direction sounds like an easy task, but it’s actually very hard as we begin to really segment our services and get real specialized in what we do.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

Arizona’s climate and lifestyle present specific health considerations that our Mesa-based medical professionals are specially trained to address. Our team at Mesa Family Physicians specializes in geriatric medicine, addressing the complex health needs that can arise with aging.

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Dr. Michael Bazel

JUNE 16, 2025

As a trusted Valley Village hormone doctor, Dr. Michael Bazel specializes in identifying the root cause of these symptoms. The truth is that stress and hormone imbalances often work together, and resolving your symptoms requires understanding the relationship between them. You may feel like you’ve tried everything with little success.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Whether you’re managing a chronic condition, seeking preventive care, or dealing with an urgent health issue, primary care is the foundation of good health. It’s where you turn for regular check-ups, advice on staying healthy, and help with managing any chronic illnesses like diabetes or hypertension. What is Primary Care?

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It's the first point of contact for all your medical needs, from routine check-ups to managing chronic conditions. Your ongoing appointments help foster a strong patient-doctor relationship , making it easier to discuss your concerns and receive personalized care. Regular check-ups ensure early detection of health issues.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A good PCP is like a quarterback for your health, coordinating your care, referring you to specialists when necessary, and helping manage chronic conditions. Are you managing a chronic condition like diabetes or high blood pressure? Do you have specific healthcare needs that require specialized attention?

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 11, 2025

In this blog, we’ll break down what preventive care involves, explore its relationship with short-term health insurance, and explain why it’s a critical part of staying healthy at any stage of life. Preventive care is often referred to as the first line of defense in healthcare—and for good reason. What Is Preventive Care?

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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

See the discussion on the Special Consideration IMG (International Medical Graduates) Pilot Pathway below.) Special Consideration IMG Pilot Pathway* In August 2024 , the ABIM Council proposed a pilot model for exceptionally qualified IMGs pursuing accredited subspecialty fellowship in the U.S.

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Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 20, 2025

Seeking a comprehensive evaluation with a physician that specializes in perimenopause and menopause can provide valuable insights and support, but can be an intimidating step to take. Have a close relationship with your doctor - the more they get to know you, the better they can help you.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. ” So there’s this element too, of what’s suffering in relationship to others, and can we compare? It’s the relationships to the world.

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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. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. And, you know, I just thought it was a really special song. And he actually was able to get through that with a lot of help from different people.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. It was around helping communication, and really focused on our nursing manual, and particularly around these guidelines for assessing and managing symptoms. So, the training was largely around… It was different for the nurse.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

My voice is nothing special. Our volunteers are starting to take over ownership of this program, so we’re kind of like building a team to help kind of maintain it, manage it, and make sure that everything’s on the up and up with it. Relationships are usually more complicated. Alex 09:00 Not true. And we’re.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. Alex 00:20 Today we’re delighted and honored to welcome Eduardo Bruera, who is one of the biggest symptom management gurus, if not the biggest symptom management guru in palliative medicine.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. People’s goals are often much more than, you know, perfect management or heart failure, even living as long as possible. Transcript Eric 00:00 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:04 This is Alex Smith. He’s in Boston. Eric 19:32 And I love this.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

This language grounds the hierarchical paradigm in interprofessional relationships because of the scope of practice alone, and then also talking about how this is sort of ingrained in our trainees, as you’ve mentioned. DorAnne 30:25 I also wanna make a shout out for pain and symptom management with social work and chaplains.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t. Pain management wouldn’t come to the facility, and she was bedbound.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

What I think so special about palliative care is that there’s some really radical and important ideas that sort of undergird our work and that provided a foundation for our work. I loved the relationship that we developed and the fun we had. A good prescriber, a good symptom control manager. And she said, I run like hell.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

And my grandkid, like, I need you to see this child and, like, how wonderful and special they are. Is the sort of task to manage. Eric 26:25 So if that therapeutic relationship reverses and now they’re supporting you. There’s this therapeutic relationship. I heard that. And that is not actually tangential.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

There’s no special thing to say, but sometimes we’re tempted to treat serious illness communication in that way, conversational judo or something, that I can maneuver around an encounter and create something new. All these studies in this fringe… We want the special key. You had no relationship. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest hosts Lynn Flint and Anne Kelly have no relationships to disclose. Anne: Well, speaking of your kids, a very special, sometimes listener, chimed in named Ren Smith. Alex: And, it means pain management. I’m sure we all have the same issue. Alex: Okay.

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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. And those of us who work in palliative care are more familiar with the 5ht3 receptor, which we use for nausea management. So when they do meet it, how are you going to be in relationship to it?

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. Eric 19:30 Should we add that to special effects as our producer?

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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. So they are an important part of developing a relationship where one of the manifestations clearly is, “Well, yeah, I felt good about that. Do you worry about that? Well, I do it personally.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

He spent a long time as hospice medical director and he founded a national model of care that many of our listeners will be familiar with, AIM, which stands for the Advanced Illness Management program, which has influenced CMS policy. They’re like, “Everyone wants to make every moment of our day special.”

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. Lexy: The domains were meaning and purpose, relationships, transcendence and peace, and self-worth and identity, and we developed those. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

In particular, she reminds us that when we think about the most challenging of our patient encounters, they almost always involve a complex psychosocial dynamic, and this has received far less attention than communication and symptom management issues. . I don’t even remember pain management teaching. AlexSmithMD .

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

This week we’re going on to episode two, which is for me one of the most special episodes we’ve done in GeriPal for a very, very long time. Eric: And in the end, we have a very special part where we actually get a tour of their gardens outside of the hospice unit. Alex: This is Alex Smith. I only know what I see.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

So thinking about addressing trauma as part of our management of other symptoms can be really helpful or at least taking a trauma informed lens to our medical approach. Much of my training has been in, in sort of the medical management and symptom management of a patient at the end of their life and thinking about how we do that.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

It feels special to me. They’re limited because, on the individual level, when you get down to it, the complexities of these stories and the caring involved may lead to these complex relationships, understanding what the goals are, as you had done with your mom. I don’t know what this is. It feels important to me.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And we’ll say that we will link to an article that Hope and Thaddeus and others, I think Tim Quill was on there, wrote in journal, Pain and symptom Management, I think it was. I know that food and drink gets its own sort of special category in a lot of are thinking, but I think of it as very. Is that right, Hope?

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley have no relationships to disclose. Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. Eric 25:08 Super special. This is Eric W id era.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Well, Haider has an intimate relationship with pain, having experienced chronic pain himself and now having dove deep into the latest research on pain for his new book The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. . Haider: Yeah, this is a special song. We’re going to be talking about pain and your book. But I certainly did.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston have no relationships to disclose. Now there’s evidence for some more specialized hormonal conditions. And I think that’s something that we can really focus on, especially with geriatric patients.

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