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Practice tip of the week: Hiring a marketing consultant

Physician's Practice

This April 2024 article by Neil Baum, MD , on hiring a marketing consultant gives this tip: 3. Check industry associations Look for consultants who are members of reputable healthcare marketing associations. Related Content Schrödinger's Cat: Financial perils of Allograft diabetic ulcer grafts Martin Merritt, Esq.

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Oregon-based medical group Northwest Permanente announces affiliation with The Permanente Medical Group of Northern California

Permanente Medicine

Dr. Ansari also serves as co-CEO of The Permanente Federation, the national leadership and consulting organization for the Permanente Medical Groups, which, with the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, comprise Kaiser Permanente. TPMG teams are sharing programs for diabetes management to support patients in NWP.

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Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Christine Twining, MD, Chair, ABIM Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board The Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on April 1, 2025. The following is a summary of the spring meeting.

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How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

Today's Hospitalist

THE BLOCKBUSTER GLP-1 receptor agonists are a transformative class of medications increasingly tied to better outcomes across a variety of conditions and organ systems, not just in patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes. Published in May 2024, the FLOW trial , for instance, looked at patients with diabetes and advanced kidney disease.

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health. Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. ” A month after the consult, Ellen died peacefully in her sleep.

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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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ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Why would CBT work for neuropathic pain and diabetes differently than it would work for neuropathic pain and cancer? Even if the cancer gets cured, they’re not going to become their buprenorphine prescriber, the palliative care consultant. Why would that be?

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

GeriPal

He died in 2024. Eric 13:00 I also love that too, because even on our inpatient ballot of care consult service, whenever somebody says that they’re unrepresented or they don’t have a surrogate, we never believe that until we usually look up. I’m a little bit of a throwback kind of 70s 80s guy. I think it’s.