GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I think in the era when I trained in the 2008 timeframe, you know, it was very much just like somebody has pain, they need opioids, they have pain, they have more pain, they need lots more opioids. I think the accountability piece is something that is more new for palliative care clinicians. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And I learned, so you have this wonderful paper that just came out in JAGS, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, titled Patients Living with Dementia Have Worse Outcomes When Undergoing High-Risk Procedures. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. Yep, for geriatrics? Samir: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

We’ve mentioned buprenorphine, is that kind of the main thing that we should be thinking about in palliative care clinics and geriatric clinics for people with your use disorder? So this is 2008 when they were running this study, I’m like why did the heck did they choose buprenorphine? Nobody uses buprenorphine.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

They’re really excellent, and if I have any complaint about them at all, it’s that they could have been issued in 2008, 2009. At American Geriatric Society in Orlando, got up during Amy Kelly’s talk, which was about dementia and said, “My mother cannot get hospice care because no hospice will take a chance on her.

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High Peaks Hospice

MARCH 1, 2022

He stopped in to request information and instead received an immediate call back from who would turn out to be the most formative person in his life, David Weissman, MD, the founding Director of the Geriatric and Palliative Medicine program at the medical college.

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1-800-HOSPICE

JANUARY 18, 2022

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

First, we have James Deardorff, who’s a geriatrician and assistant professor at UCSF in the division of Geriatrics. We started a clinic here in 2008 at the VA, and what we found was that, you know, our median time from consult to death before we started clinic was like 18 days, somewhere around there, like somewhere around two weeks.

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The Nurse Break

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Check out other must-read articles here Shauna has a Diploma in Nursing from Kangan Batman TAFE and more than 8 years’ experience working within various healthcare fields including Geriatric, Community, Oncology, and currently as a civilian nurse contractor in the Defence environment. In my early years, I was sexually attracted to women.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. So since 2008, we’ve been providing the service using our foundation money. And it became a terror for me.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

We did the Geriatric 5M approach to telemedicine with Lauren Mo. And the Ryan Haight Act I think was passed in 2008, which was in response to a young person who died of an opioid overdose. Brooke: I feel like you’re getting better year after year, so good. Alex: Hope so. So that song was already taken so we can’t do it.

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