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Q&A: Prioritizing Early Intervention in Pediatric Obesity

Physician's Weekly

This starts with recognition that obesity is a chronic disease. When a child has risk factors but has not developed the disease, we must continue to provide preventive care and support for the family and appropriately match intensity and dose of the intervention. What modifications would you recommend to clinicians?

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Chronic disease management among people with serious mental illness across rural, small urban, and metropolitan settings [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: People with serious mental illness (SMI) are at increased risk of complications and earlier death from comorbid chronic diseases, compared with patients without mental illness. These disparities may be related to differences in access to recommended chronic disease management.

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How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

Today's Hospitalist

Medical societies and hospitals are weighing in on periprocedural concerns in patients taking GLP-1s who need procedures or surgeries. That’s according to two internists who work closely with hospitalized patients who take GLP-1s. “Life-changing” medicines Obesity, said Dr. .”

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

So I think the first reason that we saw and felt the opportunity was ripe for updating was that some of us had come across some anecdotal examples of patients expressing some offense to that terminology. And I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive. Is the patient in your descriptor?