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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Routine Screenings Screening Complication Diagnose 52

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! Do elements of care that are often administered to seriously ill patients count? How does integrative medicine fit in with this? If its low evidence but not unsafe, not generally an issue. Think vitamins.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 79

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

You can find her illustrations online at her Twitter account, particularly those about the anti-asian hate study that we did recently and had a podcast about, as well as in annals of internal medicine. They had triple diagnoses, often life threatening illness, but also mental illness and usually some kind of addiction.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Relationship 123

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Alex (singing) Alex 02:34 All right, this was a fun one.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Illness 80

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. To the deeper emotions – of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence – that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. To let it go. . Or as in Mark Nepo’s poem Adrift, I am so sad and everything is beautiful. AlexSmithMD .

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Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93