Priority Physicians

JANUARY 20, 2025

In our direct primary care setting, we take the time to deep-dive and explain options to our patients so they’re comfortable with a diagnosis and treatment plan that might not require an X-ray. An MRI augments and adds confidence to our clinical diagnosis. Imaging isn’t always required to get them there. Reach out today.

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Family Physicians of Greeley

APRIL 22, 2024

Whether you’re a parent, caregiver, educator, or simply curious about autism, this post aims to provide a comprehensive overview of what autism is and what it means for individuals and their families. The post Demystifying Autism: Understanding the Spectrum appeared first on Family Physicians of Greeley, PLLP.

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PEMBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Just look at the rash – then scroll down to reveal the diagnosis. Tell families that this rash will always look worse on days 2,3, and 4 an to not be alarmed. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. That’s it. The child has fever and swollen feet as well. It’s Serum Sickness Like Reaction!

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Diagnosis Family Families Hospital 52

PEMBlog

MAY 1, 2025

Counsel families and caregiversincluding pregnant household contactson the risks, exposures, and infection control considerations related to Parvovirus B19. Clinical Manifestations and Diagnosis of Parvovirus B19 Infection. It is a non-enveloped, single-stranded DNA virus in the Parvoviridae family. UpToDate , Jun. Parvoviruses.

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Complication Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 83

PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. 2024-066854. 2024-066855. Optimizing Advanced Imaging of the Pediatric Patient in the Emergency Department: Policy Statement. Pediatrics.

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Myriad Genetics

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Storm was first diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in January 2024 and underwent a lumpectomy shortly after. Her routine mammogram had detected something suspicious, prompting an ultrasound, which lead to a biopsy, which ultimately lead to her diagnosis. After her diagnosis and treatment, Storm reflected on her experience.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 28, 2025

For comparison, there were 285 cases of measles in the United States in 2024, and there have already been more reported cases than in all but two years since 2000. In a 2024 American Family Physician editorial , Dr. Doug Campos-Outcalt reviewed best practices for diagnosis and prevention of measles.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied – The Vizient® Clinical Data Base was queried for inpatient discharges between January 2016 and February 2024 with an ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for naegleriasis (B60.2). Study Design and Setting: Retrospective case series. Outcome Measures: Number of cases, LOS, mortality rate.

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Diagnosis Patients Clinic Individual 130

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. If they’ve said they had a traumatic experience receiving a diagnosis. And so in terms of, am I looking to put a DSM diagnosis to someone? What would be the benefit to myself, or hopefully for them to add a DSM diagnosis? I wonder why?

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Like, with a cancer diagnosis, there’s relatively a smooth, smooth prognosis. I think for families and for other providers who are not trained in that, it’s very hard to predict. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

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. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. So, importantly, you may not have a positive family history.

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Consulting Individual Families Family 59

GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Alex: And Sammy Winemaker, who’s a palliative care physician and Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University in the Department of Family Medicine, Division of Palliative Care. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu. Hsien: Hey, great to be here.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. We might say, “Of course you’re sad, you just got a very serious diagnosis.” They’re still engaging fully with their family and with the activities and the hobbies that they’re still able to do. Is this a new onset depression?

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. They could have a prognosis of years, or decades. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. Subscribers will claim MOC credit by completing an evaluation with self-reflection questions. laughter] Alex: Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

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. And the family says, dad would never want to live like this.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 87

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

And I wonder, now, was this 2024 version sort of a redo? For the foreseeable future, it’s going to be right 90%, 95%, 85%, so the safety system, of course, will be, the AI says something, makes a recommendation or gives you a draft diagnosis or drafts your note, and then, the failsafe is, the doctor reads it over. This is GPT-4.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And so we know that the decision to enter a nursing home is incredibly challenging for families, especially because it often comes with thoughts that they’re, like, abandoning their loved one, really. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. So I don’t know how clinically meaningful that week difference was to families. This 2024 is the year of AI. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. So I think that was one of the key eligibility criteria. English or spanish speakers.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. And interesting enough, this is a really fascinating study that just got published in JAMA I M in December of 2024. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery. Eric 06:26 Great.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. And one would be when care is continuing a case where people believe that the patients died, or oftentimes, this is also a source of controversy between families and clinicians.

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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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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Losing Memory, and Other Things, Too Kennedy’s diagnosis led him to retire, ending a decades-long career as a software engineer at the University of Scranton. He recommends memory cafes to other people with dementia and their families. Socializing can also become more difficult after diagnosis. I get to meet them.

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Patients Family Families Diagnosis 52

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. Bruce: This is, Ghostbusters, basically, a ham radio. Eric: Yeah.

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PEMBlog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Well, families state that they have concerns about the preservative in the injection, maybe that it could cause autism. These are some of the points in the history that could lead to you making the diagnosis. 1997 Jan;99(1). Kher P, Verma RP. Hemorrhagic Disease of Newborn.

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Vaccination IT Diagnosis Hospital 72

PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Pertussis infection in infants and children: Clinical features and diagnosis. Available at: [link] Accessed December 3, 2024. In this episode, we’ll go over clinical presentation, diagnosis management, infection control, and post exposure protocols.

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