GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? But these tests were never designed to diagnose. Does a good history matter anymore?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

There is a lot to digest with these draft clinical guidelines but the big change from the 2018 guideline is moving Alzheimers to a biological diagnosis (biomarker evidence only) not just for a research framework but now from a clinical one. And we’ve been diagnosing it at Penn. Remember, family member.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

They had triple diagnoses, often life threatening illness, but also mental illness and usually some kind of addiction. And I think up until the time when my aunt was passing, I had been very afraid of the idea of death in my family. Or did family members ever like this very intimate portrait of them to share? That was it.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Redwing: So I grew up in a pretty intellectual family, but my brother and sister were six and 10 years older than me, and they were always feeding me literature and poetry. Redwing: When you’re diagnosed with cancer, the first thing you think about is when you’re going to die. Eric: Like since a little kid? Eric: Yeah?

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. Isn’t it weird that now we’re labeling the majority of doctors with burnout in 2018? I’m not kidding like my first family picture with my parents was when I was 45. I give you Dr. Pamela Wible. Dr. Pamela Wible soon discovered why.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

” Oz said he wants insurers to eliminate preapprovals for knee arthroscopy, a common, minimally invasive procedure to diagnose and treat knee problems. And it isn’t clear how the new commitments will protect the sickest patients, such as those diagnosed with cancer, who need the most expensive treatment.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

He was diagnosed as a baby with Prader-Willi syndrome — a rare disorder sparked by a genetic abnormality. Researchers are learning that obesity’s drivers can be environmental, familial, or genetic. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Pediatr Rev May 2018; 39 (5): 247–257. Healthcare providers play a vital role in diagnosing and managing it, preventing its spread, and educating patients and families about the benefits of vaccination. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Available from: [link] Pediatrics in Review Heather L.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Testing and outreach for HIV faltered in the South , a region that accounts for more than half of all HIV diagnoses. Half of new diagnoses today are in the South and a third are among people with low incomes. He kept his diagnosis hidden from friends and family because he knew how people talked about HIV.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. 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. BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. —

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PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

2018 Nov;142(5):e20181009. Epub 2018 Oct 8. Family history of febrile seizures. 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. Acetaminophen and Febrile Seizure Recurrences During the Same Fever Episode.

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