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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Routine Screenings Screening Complication Diagnose 52

Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 15, 2025

In early 2020, I accepted an invitation to participate in a live debate with a nationally prominent academic urologist at the annual scientific meeting of the American Society for Men's Health. The topic: "The Great Debate of the 21st Century: To PSA screen or not to screen." Then I wrote a paper about it.

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Screening Primary Care Physician Family Physician Primary Care 52

Myriad Genetics

MAY 20, 2025

Myriad Genetics has been conducting the GeneSight Mental Health Monitor surveys since 2020 to learn about American attitudes towards mental health and related issues. Roberts was struggling with her mental health after a string of painful life events, including her mother’s passing and other family members’ chronic health issues. “My

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Mental Health Diagnose Medical Patients 52

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Team members and families eagerly await your intervention to halt the seizure and understand its underlying cause. Urine drug screens do not test for all ingested substances, and the results of screens, though timely do not identify the toxindrome (sympathomimetic etc.) This includes scarring abnormalities, bleeds, and tumors.

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Patients Screening Illness Physicals 52

Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

The US Preventive Services Task Force , the American Academy of Family Physicians , and the American College of Chest Physicians recommend annual low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening for adults 50 to 80 years of age who have at least a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have smoked within the past 15 years.

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Primary Care Screening Family Physician Family Medicine 59

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

According to the CDC, “About 697,000 people in the United States died from heart disease in 2020– that’s 1 in every 5 deaths”. Cholesterol, sugars, kidney, liver and electrolytes are typically screened during annual wellness visits. We cannot control genetics, but we can control other modifiable factors.

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Primary Care Physician Family Medicine DO Appointment 40

PEMBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The majority of these are cardiac and so today we will review what to look for in your screening ECG. Discussing obtaining an ECG with patients and families Presentations to the emergency department for syncope can be stressful for families. “What is the yield of screening echocardiography in pediatric syncope?

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Utilities Screening Physicals Medical 97

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

They’re starting to decompose even in the toes and fingers, and we’ll sit there and tell their family, we think they’re suffering, because we are suffering watching them, and we want them to make a decision that’ll make us feel better and take the suffering away as quickly as possible. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023.11.004.

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IT Families Family Physicals 137

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

She came from an activist family, with her mother being one of the first South Asian feminist activists in the country. 2020 Jul 18;396(10245):158-159. Sayantani became a physician since she thought it was a concrete tool for social justice. GU4340: Visionary Medicine: Racial Justice, Health and Speculative Fictions. Narvaez, A.

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Community Education Patient-Centered Relationship 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. I was really passionate about helping the people and also their families. There has to be more than this. David: Exactly.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 123

PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Kit Carney and Dr. Kristen Humphrey discuss gun violence, its impact on our patients and their families, as well as practical tips on advocating for safe storage of firearms, and how we can support victims of violence. Firearms, physicians, families, and kids: Finding words that work. Pediatrics November 2012; 130 (5): e1416–e1423.

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Family Families Mental Health Healthcare 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

And I was interviewing candidates for our clinical fellowship and interviewed Alexis, who had been like family medicine doc before, done all kinds of cool things. That was January 2020. We had, you know, it was a Monday night in June of 2020. Ricky 11:23 Yeah. So rewind a few years. We’ve got to do that. But that was.

IT 108

IT Community Patients Families 108

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. Eric 04:55 Does it need an experience directly? Mariah 23:02 Right.

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IT Patient-Centered Individual Screening 67

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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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 64

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Big heat waves in England in 2020, 2,224 excess deaths in the obits over the age of 65. But now one kid’s off this side of the planet, the other one’s over there, this one’s here, and the elders are not part of a family community, what is more even a community, local community.

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Healthcare IT Education Hospital 130

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. I had planned to start doing in-person poetry sessions with cancer patients at the beginning of 2020. Eric: Like since a little kid? Redwing: Since a little kid.

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Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

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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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126

GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. That was his literally his life during those spring months of 2020 and it scared the hell out of me. . Darrell: Thank you.

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Nurse Practitioner Patient-Centered Vaccination Emergency Room 137

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

it was April, 2020. We’re actually lower of COVID deaths in this country than we’ve ever been since March of 2020. Our department chair is always tweeting, and I think there was a fourth shot and then a mild infection in a family member. The day I knew we couldn’t eradicate it, remember the big cats in a zoo.

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Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100

GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

We talk about positive aspects of aging, cognitive screening, the line between legitimate concerns and ageism, ableism, advice for a geriatrician asked to comment on TV, frailty and physical disability, images in the press , historical situations including , and an upper age limit for the Presidency, among other issues. Louise 32:50 Right.

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