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Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist

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member login CONTACT US About Us Concierge Medicine Services Our Physicians Locations Member Login Contact Us L Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist January 21, 2025 Orthopedic pain management is a guessing game. Good orthopedic pain management doesn’t always automatically call for imaging or a subspecialist.

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Letitia Bridges, MD, MBA, appointed to chief quality officer at The Permanente Federation

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She is also a member of the board of directors for The Southeast Permanente Medical Group and Hawaii Permanente Medical Group. She is board certified in general and laparoscopic surgery by the American Board of Surgery. To learn more about Permanente Medicine, visit permanente.org. million Kaiser Permanente members.

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Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

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Tips to Manage Anxiety If anxieties disable your daily life, discuss the situation with your direct primary care doctor. But in the meantime, we have a few tips that may help you manage anticipatory anxiety. First, follow conventional wisdom and count to 10. If you’re a ship in rough waters, we’ll point you away from danger.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. I was really passionate about helping the people and also their families. Lyndsay: I think a couple of reasons. There has to be more than this.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Jessie: Thank you.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

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JAGS 2024 Nursing Home Palliative Care Referral Process, Barriers, and Proposed Solutions: A Qualitative Study. Kathleen 03:47 I think any of us who’ve spent any time in nursing homes have spent time working in a nursing home setting, have visited, had family members in nursing homes and looked around and seen the population there.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

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Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. And it was very clear, and she could now no longer recognize her family members. Thaddeus 00:46 Thank you. Joe, Josh, welcome back to Jerry Pal.

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