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10 Tips to Find the Best Diabetes Doctor for Type 2 Diabetes

Dr. Zaar

Look for Board Certification and Credentials Make sure the doctor is board-certified in endocrinology or internal medicine. Are they familiar with managing complications like neuropathy or insulin resistance? A difficult-to-reach provider could lead to skipped appointments and poorly managed blood sugar.

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Episode 234: WDx #16 – Clinical Unknown with Dr. Alexandra “Jay” Teng

The Clinical Problem Solvers

[link] Dr. Blythe Butler presents a case to Dr. Alexandra “Jay” Teng, followed by a discussion about her experience as a woman in an Internal Medicine procedural subspecialty. That experience helped convince her to pursue medicine. Dr. Teng earned her medical degree from UCSF, then completed internal medicine residency at UCLA.

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

GeriPal

The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). Maybe even had come in with a complication. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicines (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

Unlike appointments that address specific illnesses or injuries, preventive care visits focus on screening for potential health issues, assessing your overall wellness, and helping you establish healthy habits before problems develop. Consider creating a health folder containing this information that you update and bring to each appointment.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. And so the attitude isn’t like, you know, oh, like they missed an appointment, like, okay, like this is so annoying. And that’s about half of our referrals.