2023, Family, Physicals and Specialization

Have Job-Based Health Coverage at 65? You May Still Want To Sign Up for Medicare

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

When Alyne Diamond fell off a horse in August 2023 and broke her back, her employer-based health plan through UnitedHealthcare covered her emergency care in Aspen, Colorado. It also covered related pain management and physical therapy after she returned home to New York City. The bills totaled more than $100,000.

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Insurance Patient-Centered Government Provider

NIH to Fund $10M in Long-Term Health Studies After Ohio Train Disaster

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

MONDAY, June 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will fund studies of the long-term health effects of a 2023 Ohio train derailment that released more than 1 million pounds of hazardous chemicals into the soil, air and water.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. I mean, to me, the Buddhist concept that there are multiple forms of suffering, like there’s the suffering that’s due to pain and physical symptoms. The more we can notice that, the more we can actually be present for that family and actually see how they’re experiencing it.

IT

IT Families Family Physicals

Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Consider it a supplement to what you remember from Biochemistry and the instructions on the family’s laminated care plan sheet. My special guest podcaster, Emily Groopman, is an actual Pediatric Geneticist in training and we hope that you will find this episode useful. Updated 2023 Jul 17]. Inborn Errors of Metabolism.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine. What you did was you gave a family who’s in complete distress attention asking specific questions, not being afraid to go where it’s very painful to go.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. She entertained her family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, you’re having your family, Christmas coming up. You’re going to go traveling to Hawaii with your family, and, you know, you want to die in January. And I was.

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What are the signs of an eating disorder?

Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 1, 2023

This week, February 27-March 5, 2023, marks National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. At Vida Family Medicine we offer primary care services to individuals in recovery from eating disorders. If you or someone you love is suffering, I hope that this information will help you find the resources you need to find recovery.

Mental Health

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

And in our reporting center, we tracked physical assaults, verbal harassment. And also, you know, do they know of anyone, friends, family, coworkers who’s been attacked, were assaulted as a part of these incidents? When you think about anti-asian hate, how should I think about defining the hate component? Alex 15:37 Yeah.

Mental Health

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. In the United States in 2023, the truth of the matter is you don’t need very many individual risk factors to become homeless. White folks who are homeless are often folks who have cut ties with their families for a variety of reasons. Margot: Yes.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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.” Malaz: I love it.

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Food for thought on food as medicine

Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 27, 2025

Michael Pollan's pithy "eat [real] food, not too much, mostly plants"), and has received positive reviews in publications ranging from NPR to Family Medicine. for the 11 million families headed by single parents who often work two or more jobs to get by and have fewer options for buying groceries. Good Energy for the Budget-Conscious"?)

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But as we talked to patients and providers, there was, really, this need for patients who wanted services, like IV antibiotics and IV fluids, but wanted to be able to spend that time at home, with their family, even if it meant it was their last days or weeks. And that’s a totally, totally appropriate question. Eric: Yeah.

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT

Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

See the AAHPM Legislative Action Center [link] Write to the DEA, with guidance from AAHPM’s comments to the DEA March 2023. In our particular practice, we take care of a very large population of patients with ALS who of course have a lot of physical disability. Start with a story as Carly did in her Op Ed. Stories trump data.

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Have Job-Based Health Coverage at 65? You May Still Want To Sign Up for Medicare

NIH to Fund $10M in Long-Term Health Studies After Ohio Train Disaster

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

What are the signs of an eating disorder?

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