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. and 6.1%, respectively).

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not. 2000; 55(5):616-623.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. Emily 10:22 We are, we were very happy to receive a grant from the ABIM American Board of Internal Medicine to develop a podcast series on the topic of uncertainty in medicine. That was January 2020. Did I read that right on your page?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. Annals of Internal Medicine. I guess that’s an event.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so it was really the patients, you know, the caregivers, the family members were the ones who were sort of the closest in observing. And my community and about my family and those kinds of things. And they had to have a family caregiver. Their family members could not come in. Our consultation. Marie 11:03 Yes.

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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. Mike: It was really then it was when I was a internal medicine resident that I heard a Mary Oliver poem, and it really connected to where I was at.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”

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