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The Importance of Diabetic Retina Exams: Safeguarding Vision in the Face of Diabetes

Family Physicians of Greeley

Living with diabetes requires a vigilant approach to healthcare, and one crucial aspect often overlooked is regular diabetic retina exams. In this blog post, we’ll delve into the significance of diabetic retina exams and why they are essential for individuals managing diabetes.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

In our third segment, we explore Amy Linskys study that examined the effect of patient-directed educational materials on clinician deprescribing of potentially low-benefit or high-risk medications, such as proton pump inhibitors, high-dose gabapentin, or risky diabetes medications. So insulin, which is the injections, and then sulfonylurea.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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

GeriPal

He died in 2024. But you worry that the advance directive does not provide enough guidance for the specific decision at Yael Jo, do you. So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. I’m a little bit of a throwback kind of 70s 80s guy.

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

GeriPal

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. 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?

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address it. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. It can be quite problematic in people with diabetes and so on.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Louise 05:02 Yes, well, I don’t know about 2024, but in 2023, yes, it could happen. He was a terrible diabetic. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Would that really happen nowadays? It happened to my mother.