Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 19, 2025

Most patients who choose colonoscopy as a screening test for colorectal cancer are referred from primary care to a gastroenterologist or other specialist who performs endoscopy. But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021.

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Family Families Board-Certified 52

Permanente Medicine

MAY 22, 2025

Kaiser Permanente’s physician-led, integrated care model focuses on prevention, screening, treatment, and research to drive continuous improvement in care quality standards that have gained national recognition. Dr. Bridges joined SCPMG in 2008. We are dedicated to the mission of improving the health of our patients and communities.

Appointment 52

Appointment Board-Certified Patient-Centered Integrated Care 52

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

So it really helped form community between patients and helped build community with the palliative team that was involved. And also Yvonne Bessant, who is a good friend of ours, is a very important way to encourage community help with integration, but also to kind of nourish the spiritual transformation that goes on here.

Illness 109

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 109

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. Whereas with comprehensive dementia care, what you really need is a lot of the support that is delivered in the community.

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

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. And I think that it was percolating in a lot of the palliative care community. We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of.

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73