Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

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. Choosing the right diabetes doctor can make a major difference in how effectively your condition is managed, your quality of life, and your long-term health outcomes.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Ensure the conversation addresses any care coordination needs, quality gaps, or other concerns identified by the data that may impact treatment decisions, referrals, or patient education opportunities. Many of these patients are clinically complex and receive care from multiple professionals—which creates unique management hurdles.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

DECEMBER 26, 2023

If it's determined that you need more specialized treatment, a referral can be made to a cardiologist. If a patient has severe respiratory issues or disease, they will likely need a referral to a lung specialist. For this reason, it's very important to seek routine appointments with a reputable primary care doctor.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Streamline Referrals: Utilize technology like the Hunger Vital Signs tool and the Minnesota Food Helpline to connect patients directly to mobile food units, emergency food programs or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) enrollment services. Park Nicollet Health Services combines nutrition education with SNAP referrals.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2025

You may need to see a hormone doctor regularly, and in those cases, it’s important to consider how easy it will be to get to your appointments. Ask About Appointment Availability Appointment availability varies from one hormone doctor to another and can have a big impact on your experience as a patient.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

Calling to schedule the next available appointment and taking time off work. In a traditional health care setting, many administrative burdens and barriers stand in the way of patients receiving evidence-based care. Paperwork required to sign up for health insurance and to establish care with a practice. Travel to the doctor’s office.

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 4, 2024

To schedule an appointment, call 574-725-3001. A referral from a provider is not required but is recommended. The Logansport Memorial Pain Management Center will be located at 1201 Michigan Avenue, Suite 70, Logansport, IN 46947. The Logansport Memorial Pain Management Center is now accepting new patients.

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Plum Health

MAY 22, 2023

DPC clinics provide members with: Personalized, preventive care Management of chronic conditions No co-pays or insurance billing Treatment of ailments and illnesses Same-day appointments and no wait times Unlimited appointment lengths 24/7 access to care Exams, labs, and testing Specialist referrals, as necessary And much more.

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

APRIL 16, 2024

Schedule an appointment with your primary care provider. Work with your primary care provider to create a plan that may include: A referral to a neurologist who specializes in functions of the brain. Did you know that every 6 minutes, someone in the United States is diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease? What is Parkinson’s Disease?

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 22, 2025

They can offer extra support, like a referral to a diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) program. Follow up appointments allow your diabetes specialist to monitor your condition and check if your blood sugar is within a healthy level. Your doctor may recommend counting and limiting the amount of carbs you eat.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

At PACT Endocrinology, a referral isn’t required. To schedule your appointment with Dr. Case, call your desired location today. While primary care providers are trained to manage conditions like diabetes, they rely on endocrinologists to provide more specialized care.

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears

MAY 24, 2022

We booked a follow up appointment and he was on his way home. I’m of the opinion that South Africans in general have a good sense of humor in comparison to the rest of the world but South African doctors in particular have an added sense of humor. I guess it’s necessary as a coping mechanism. I’m not sure why.

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Tiny Physician

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

There is an increasing trend in the number of medico-legal cases filed against doctors and doctors have started practicing defensive medicine (the ordering of tests, procedures, referrals, or avoidance of high-risk patients or procedures, to reduce medico-legal cases) for the sake of their safety. are not met.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

Don’t miss out on this compelling conversation — watch the chat on YouTube or listen to it on your podcast platform of choice. And don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss future Permanente Medicine programming. Guest Wadie L. Marcos, D.O. I trained near you at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, if you’re familiar with it.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

APRIL 23, 2025

Membership is simply an option for those patients who want the assurance they will always see their chosen physician for appointments. No patients are dismissed, and referral networks remain intact. Dr. Condrell launched his program because of the high demand for his attention and support.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. But watch out!

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Unfortunately, we lack the financial structures to reimburse psychologists that would incentivize widespread inclusion on palliative care teams. Because we live in the world as it is, not as it should be, Des has helped develop an app ( link to pilot trial hot off the press !) ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 11, 2023

You may see your general practitioner for a referral to someone else, such as a psychologist, for a mental illness. Contact Hitchcock Family Medicine to schedule an appointment today. According to Healthcare IT News, just 67% of millennials have a primary care physician. Yet, it is an invaluable service.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. But I believe before we start, somebody has a song request for Alex. Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is. Eric: What’s the song? Emmy: I just forgot the name of the song… [laughter]. Alex: Pink Cadillac by Bruce Springsteen? I like that song.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Today we discuss: What is the best terminology? Homelessness? Marginally housed? What makes palliative care for people experiencing homelessness challenging? What makes it rewarding? What is unique about the practice of palliative care for people experiencing homelessness? And I gonna choose Bryan Adams, summer of 69. Naheed 03:48 Yeah, for sure.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

And my wife went to over, I want to say, 20 concerts. Eric 00:58 Have you been to a concert? Nate 00:59 I went one in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and I’m so glad I did. I loved it and this was his favorite song and so I wanted to do it. Alex 01:07 And Bruce Springsteen did a stage dive. We were talking about this before. Nate 01:11 Very healthy man.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

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). How to make your voice heard and get involved. This is Eric Widera.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Providers at New South Family Medicine and MedSpa can address the patient's deeper needs, rather than trying to rush through a hectic day full of too-brief appointments. Specialty referrals can be reduced or eliminated. Instead, they establish a direct patient-provider relationship, for a flat fee.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary If palliative care was a drug, one question we would want to know before prescribing it is what dose we should give. Give too little – it may not work. But before we jump into that topic, Jennifer, do you have a song request for Alex? Jennifer 01:20 I do have a song request for Alex. Saw them play a couple times.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

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). Here are the key results.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Before we do, I think, Joe, you have a song request for Alex. Joe: I do. I would like to hear Space Oddity and it’s because I can’t imagine being more lonely and isolated than being in a tin can orbiting around the earth by myself and just how comforting it is even to hear that scratchy little voice from ground control. Joe: Right.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

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. No post-graduation debt in Germany. That has proved to be a great policy for Germany. I went home and wrote a complaint letter to my health plan.

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