Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Insurance companies have promised changes like these before, in 2018 and 2023, but many didn’t follow through, Dr. Mehmet Oz , head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said. Insurers must provide clearer explanations when care is denied and explain how patients can appeal.

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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.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 22, 2025

While we pride ourselves on providing high-quality care for all children, we must acknowledge that the noisy, fast-paced, and unpredictable environment of the ED can be especially distressing for autistic patients. Encourage families to bring All About Me sheets or care cards that summarize critical accommodations. their car).

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CDOCS

MARCH 31, 2021

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

If you made it through the first 2 pages of the opinion, this Court’s answer is clear: FDA flagrantly violated the APA in denying those flavored e-cigarette applications due to the Agency’s utter failure to provide comprehensible instructions and consistent policies. FDA also directed manufacturers to produce detailed marketing plans.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context As the population ages, access and continuity of primary care with the family physician are crucial for managing the complex health needs of persons with dementia. Objective To provide a comprehensive overview of primary care use among community-dwelling persons with dementia in Quebec from 2018 to 2020.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

She enjoyed talking with the half dozen other residents at her adult family home in Washington state. “It’s also often the family member or the person helping to manage them.” “We step into places where other providers may not, and geriatrics is a prime example of that.”

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Two out of three drug overdose deaths in 2018 involved an opioid – be it prescription opioids, heroin, or synthetic opioids. 6 As a result of these and many other actions, the death toll from opioid overdose fell by more than 4% between 2017 and 2018. 2 Opioids contribute a large share of this overdose crisis.

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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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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

As healthcare providers, we must listen to our patients and use the power of our presence to see birthing people’s full humanity and empowerment. These statistics not only reflect the number of birthing people dying in childbirth but also evince the number of children growing up without a parent and the number of families losing a loved one.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. And yet, after assisting the older adult to their feet, the EMS providers would leave. laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. Their job was done.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. Michele: The article was 2018, but I think Bonnie read the article more recently. Eric: How long ago was this? Alex: A few years back.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

2018 Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews on ACP. And especially for those who may have nontraditional families. I think if you’re from a nontraditional family, it’s very important to make sure that people understand who you would want to talk to. Alex: What did it changed to after 2018? We can work it out!

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

JAMA Surgery 2018 Gabapentin and mood stabilizers in the Nursing Home Setting: Antiepileptic prescribing to persons living with dementia residing in nursing homes: A tale of two indications. Eric: Any other interesting tidbits or facts that we should know as providers about gabapentin or Lyrica dosing or pharmacology? J Am Geriatr Soc.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube. Jill Schneiderhan, a family medicine and integrative medicine doc, helps us think through this. Ivermectin to treat cancer. Stem cell treatments.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

And then in 2018, when adult use was allowed in California, I think it gave people more permission, but the stigma is still there. But I gave this talk, and one of the questions I asked a group of maybe 150 residents was, do you talk to your healthcare provider about your medical cannabis use? It was really, really impressive to me.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. When patients leave the hospital, the infection may be cured, but the patient and family will need to contend with a host of major new functional and cognitive deficits. Julien: When I closed my eyes, I actually thought this is an actual recording of Chris Cornell. It was amazing.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. Well, even for somebody like you, who’s pretty familiar with the instruments, it might cause distress for the patient, maybe their family. So for primary care providers, you order that blood test, you own that.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

And then there are a number of groups that go out in vans and cars and go out into the surrounding community of Kerala to provide care for patients who are in their homes. I’ve heard talk about in the family circles that I was an inconvenient child born as a third son, when my dad desperately wanted a girl.

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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. Remember, family member. And that could extend beyond 18 months. We just don’t know that.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

I wonder if you could say a little bit more about the meta Institute in particular and what it is that clinicians today can do to learn, to be more present and learn about the need to be thoughtful and compassionate in the care that they provide people with serious illness. Frank, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Frank 08:43 Well, briefly.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Today’s podcast is a follow up to our 2018 podcast with Randy Curtis about the Jumpstart intervention. ” And I saw Randy run family meetings before I knew he was famous, before I knew he was this legendary researcher. And he was just such a great doctor and such a great advocate for families.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. And so this was really, in my view, a perfect window for reinforcing the role of family in primary care. Eric 02:32 Great, Alex.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. It’s hard for your family to know. [laughter].

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

To the deeper emotions – of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence – that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. 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. AlexSmithMD .

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

In two decades of practicing family medicine, I've never seen a patient with measles. But if there was ever a more fertile environment for this age-old contagion to come roaring back in the U.S., this is it.

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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’m just actually providing really good primary health care.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Researchers are learning that obesity’s drivers can be environmental, familial, or genetic. Since the drug trial started in 2018, some of her adult patients have begun living independently, getting into college, and starting jobs — milestones that once felt impossible. She said the impact she’s seen is life-changing.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Health insurers will still be allowed to deny doctor-recommended care, which is arguably the biggest criticism that patients and providers level against insurance companies. He noted that health insurers made “past promises” to improve prior authorization in 2018. Prior authorization isn’t going anywhere.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This episode also covers what healthcare providers need to know about post-exposure prophylaxis, respiratory precautions, and managing occupational exposures. Pediatr Rev May 2018; 39 (5): 247–257. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Available from: [link] Pediatrics in Review Heather L. link] UpToDate Yeh S et al.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Dangerous changes loomed: To compensate for tax cuts for the wealthy, Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill and budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 threaten to curtail Medicaid, which provides health coverage for people with low incomes and disabilities. “I thought my family was going to disown me,” he said.

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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

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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