Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. “It’s also often the family member or the person helping to manage them.” A headband was tied around her white hair. As usual, the TV was playing loudly in the background.

Nurse Practitioner 52

Nurse Practitioner Family Families Primary Care 52

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Alex 00:20 Today we’re delighted and honored to welcome Eduardo Bruera, who is one of the biggest symptom management gurus, if not the biggest symptom management guru in palliative medicine. We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia. Who do we have with us today?

Illness 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

So we really wondered, you know, in modern palliative care practice, where we’re seeing patients a lot farther upstream than we used to, and we’re seeing patients with a wider range of diagnoses, we wanted to update, sort of. I don’t know how our patients manage that. Eric 07:31 Yeah, and I can imagine, I.

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106