Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs. Watchful waiting refers to clinical observation only.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

2010), as well as more recent scoping review methodology guidelines described by Colquhoun (2014). Our results highlighted the geographic barriers to primary healthcare services and how patients living below the poverty threshold are disproportionately affected by healthcare gentrification.

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CDOCS

APRIL 14, 2021

& Although the Redcam may have left a lot to be desired, my patients and I loved it.& <br /> <br /> In 2010, I upgraded to the Bluecam and also added the necessary armamentarium to be able to produce e.max restorations in office.& & They, just like me, were engaged instantly by the technology.&

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. When was that, 2010? Eric: 2010. You wrote about how when it comes to talking about patients with dementia, they’re rarely portrayed as resilient. Anne: Is there a movement?

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StorytellERdoc

JULY 17, 2020

The patient arrived in cardiac arrest. His transport from his house to our department had been less than ten minutes and the pre-hospital team had done an excellent job of intubating this patient and establishing an IV to begin resuscitation efforts. We continued our efforts to stabilize this patient as we awaited cardiology's arrival.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

On Fridays, Stephanie Johnson has a busy schedule, driving her navy-blue Jeep from one patient’s home to the next, seeing eight in all. Forget a lunch break; she often eats a sandwich or some nuts as she heads to her next patient visit. “Our patient isn’t just the older adult,” Johnson said. “Hello.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Appropriate use of medication is a key indicator of the quality of care provided in long-term care (LTC). Objective: To determine whether resident-facility language concordance/discordance is associated with the odds of potentially inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotics (PIP-AP) in LTC.

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In 1891, Williams opened Provident Hospital, the first medical facility to have an interracial staff. Dr. Williams’ skills placed him and Provident Hospital at the fore-front of one of Chicago’s medical milestones. We also tried to arrange the patient care considering the needs of the families.”

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Healthcare staff were afraid of patients with HIV because there wasn’t clarity on how it was transmitted. And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. So in 2010, there were about 150,000 incarcerated people in California.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. Krista Harrison found , to her surprise, that caregivers of people with dementia who died rated hospice as well as similar patients without dementia who died on hospice. AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients?

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. 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. Alex: I’ve got to show you the back of the Jersey. Eric: Yeah. Alex: That’s right.

Illness 111

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The proximity to campus health clinics may also afford college students greater accessibility to healthcare providers for prescription medications such as stimulants which could end up being misused. For healthcare providers, there should be a recognition that holistic care involves more than just prescribing medications. J Addict Dis.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 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

JUNE 5, 2025

Eric 03:25 So we have a lot to talk about, but I’m wondering if we can kind of take a big step back and just talk about the patient population that’s in nursing homes. Connie 06:18 So, I’ve been a clinician working in the nursing home since back in the 80s, and I saw a lot of patients that really needed palliative care.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In some instances, however, this is only the first hurdle to make innovative products available to patients. In 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) established a mandate requiring coverage for women’s preventive services including contraceptives. 300gg-13(a)(4).

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Well, I’m a geriatric nurse practitioner and I provided care to over 800 nursing home residents in 11 different nursing homes. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Sure. How did this project get launched?

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Recently, discussion has emerged about how these issues intertwine in caring for patients with advancing dementia who have stated that they would not want to continue living in that condition: for those with an advanced directive to stop eating and drinking, how do we balance caring for their rational past self and their experiential current self?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Give too much, it may cause harm (even if the higher dose had no significant side effects, it would require patients to take a lot of unnecessary additional pills as well as increase the cost.) So, what is the effective dose of palliative care? Give too little – it may not work. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on. Eric 05:32 Yeah.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 25, 2025

The sub-headline from a Medscape news article said it all: "Anesthesiology Still Hot, Family Medicine Is Not." Before becoming a core faculty member at the Lancaster General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program , I spent more than 15 years teaching in Georgetown's family medicine department. growth in the U.S.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

But that’s when his family began fighting another adversary: their health insurer, which decided the treatment was “not medically necessary,” according to insurance paperwork. When the Tennant family was told histotripsy would cost $50,000 and insurance wouldn’t cover it, they appealed the denial four times.

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PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Family history of febrile seizures. Both the motor movements and characteristics of the seizure, as well as the duration, are really hard to assess in a patient’s home. And let’s be honest, the term simple sort of undersells how scary this is for families. This is an important thing that we talk to families about.

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