Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

This blog covers everything you need to know—from appointment types and coding to telehealth options and what really happens during your time with the provider. Many patients ask: What happens at a new patient appointment in primary care? What happens at an establish care appointment? What Is a Primary Care Visit? Absolutely.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

Simon, MD, MPH , is Boston’s inaugural Chief Behavioral Health Officer, appointed by Mayor Michelle Wu. He Clinically, he cares for youth and families through the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the new Division of Addiction Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Kevin M. 2022;31(2):211-221. JAMA Netw Open.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

I practice family and sports medicine as part of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group here in Fontana, California. WM: Like you, I’m a family physician. So it’s not uncommon that many patients start to ask certain questions and I’m like, did you happen to consult with Dr. Google before coming to see me?

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality. Eric: And how did you do that? Eric: So how do you put that all together?

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Bernie Lo discloses being an Honorarium Recipient and consultant for Takeda starting on 01/23/2024. If they didn’t do it all by themselves, they talked to the family and it was a conversation, but also there wasn’t a whole lot that doctors can do then. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. Five minute appointments. So there’s some stuff out there like that, but also using AI to determine who at high risk and should get a palliative care consult. This is Eric Widera. Like who is at high risk or low risk?

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

I wonder if you could suggest an empathetic conversation that I could have with her that would not sugarcoat the idea that she has cancer, but do it in the most supportive possible way, and taking into account that she’s got a family and she’s got young kids?” That’s a risk with electronic health records in general.

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