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

Dr. Zaar

Are they familiar with managing complications like neuropathy or insulin resistance? Firsthand referrals often lead to trusted and patient-focused providers. A difficult-to-reach provider could lead to skipped appointments and poorly managed blood sugar. Ask: How many Type 2 diabetes patients do they treat each month?

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Personalized Diabetes Treatment Plans: How Connecticut Specialists Approach Care

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

Those goals could include reaching a healthy blood pressure, lowering your cholesterol levels or managing complications associated with diabetes. They can offer extra support, like a referral to a diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) program. Ask for More Support, if You Need It Managing diabetes can be hard.

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

GeriPal

On today today’s podcast, we are joined by guest host and UCSF geriatrician Ashwin Kotwal as we welcome Dr. Tisamarie Sherry (Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy (BHDAP) , appointed by the Biden administration). One of your articles addresses that. So you’re right.

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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 that’s about half of our referrals. And so the attitude isn’t like, you know, oh, like they missed an appointment, like, okay, like this is so annoying.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. When you think about getting your groceries, going to doctor’s appointments, going to religious services, if that’s important to you. When we think about social interactions.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

Adherence to medical advice improves and unnecessary self-referrals to other doctors decrease. Because chronic diseases are largely managed in primary care and are therefore the GPs’ daily business: Patients with multimorbidity account for 78% of GP appointments (based on 100,000 UK patients). Over time, more trust develops.

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

After one appointment, the woman who was supposed to schedule me for my next one called me “Sweetie.” They gave me another referral and reported the practice to Medicare. Please remind people of these serious complications which, though infrequent, cannot be reversed. I only wish I had read this article a month ago.