A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 18, 2025

The organization now employs a single psychiatric nurse practitioner for medication management. The kickoff to my new employer’s effort to integrate primary care and behavioral health led to many more meetings and eventually to embedding one LCSW into each of our relatively small primary care offices.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Doctor 130

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to postpone medical appointments until something feels wrong. Regular check-ups are not just routine appointments; they’re essential investments in your future health and well-being.

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Family Physician Preventive Care Preventative Care Family 100

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

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. So delivering those month visits in clinic, often in tandem with their other oncology appointments.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 106

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. And so there’s complexity in Understanding how each state manages this. So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples. Joe 01:59 Ann Arbor. I’m excited.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 110

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. So, the training was largely around… It was different for the nurse. It was around helping communication, and really focused on our nursing manual, and particularly around these guidelines for assessing and managing symptoms.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 123

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why the field is moving away from prescribing methadone to bupenorphine; how to manage patients prescribed methadone for opioid use disorder who then develop serious and painful illness – should we/can we split up the once daily dosing to achieve better pain control? When to consider bupenorphine vs methadone? That’s what we do.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 74