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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

In 2007, Dr. Mancini joined the practice, followed by Dr. Meadows in 2012, and Dr. Gendernalik in 2015. they provide free sports physicals for youth in Berrien Springs and New Buffalo. Eggebrecht joined in 1993, at a time when family doctors still rounded in the hospital and delivered babies.

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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

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It’s the physics of physician bandwidth: You can’t add something without taking something away. A few ideas: Stronger technology governance of MyChart messages We want to call the MyChart mushroom an Epic problem. The problem is that doctors work in what I call a zero-sum medical day. How do we fix this?

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding. So it coincided with that.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. We should be able to trust all the data that comes from our governing board. Summary Transcript Summary Gabapentin is the 10th most prescribed drug in the United States and use is increasing. In 2002, 1% of adults were taking gabapentinoids (gabapentin and or pregabalin).

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

And then the second one in 2015. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. Things like smoking status, level of physical activity, a variety of other lifestyle and biological risk factors that may be alternative explanations. Many people starting to talk about loneliness epidemic. What would it be?

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

The MAID issue then came on the table in Canada after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Carter v. And so now for March, 2024, the government still has said they’re planning to expand it for mental illness conditions. So being well and also potentially periods of dying. But that was separate from MAID.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

So if you look at government websites about heat for example, it’s got a line of buttons across the top with affected populations, outdoor workers, athletes and older people are in there. And we have gone from 250 members at the end of 2015 to about 26,000 right now across the United States and a number of chapters that have grown.