Family Integrative Medicine

MARCH 14, 2025

Family Integrative Medicine continues its expansion in the Central Florida healthcare community by welcoming Juan Carrasco, RN, BSN, to its expert team of healthcare professionals.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a collaborative research approach that equally engages researchers and community stakeholders throughout the research process. Grey literature references and reference lists of included articles published between Jan. 1, 1990, and Mar. 30, 2023, were considered.

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Doctor Rachel

MARCH 14, 2017

I am a family practice doc who sees teens and 20-somethings daily in my practice. I don’t know how it seems to be going in your home or the town or city you live in, but I am seeing an epidemic of anxious, stressed out teens, in my office and in my community. have lost much of our communal connection. And I am not alone.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

Ihuoma Eneli, MD, MS, discusses early intervention in childhood obesity to reduce long‑term risk and supporting families with tailored, accessible care. Past evidence suggests StEP is highly effective for reducing childhood obesity , though the benefits are better sustained when families attend most or all StEP sessions.

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Reference: Benson J , Sexton R , Dowrick C , et al, Staying psychologically safe as a doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic As we face the ongoing global pandemic of COVID-19, doctors, and particularly general practitioners and family doctors (GPs), answer the call to serve in time-pressured, unfamiliar, chaotic, and often-traumatic environments.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 12, 2025

In the two years since publication of the latest American Family Physician review article on osteoporosis , new guidelines and research studies have enhanced management of this common condition. In early 2025, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) updated its recommendations on screening for osteoporosis.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients. Nevertheless, the U.S.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

In an article for Obesity , researchers investigated how to better design lifestyle-based weight loss programs for older adults in order to address muscle and bone health concerns. What practical strategies would you recommend for implementing resistance training in community or home-based settings?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs. Watchful waiting refers to clinical observation only.

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Noreta Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

A Goal Fulfilled I made several goals during my family medicine residency training program, one of which was to publish a research paper. Fast forward to the present day in which I am a practicing Direct Primary Care (DPC) family physician. Of course, these epiphanies were personal, but are well-known to the research community. #1

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Sound Physicians

JUNE 25, 2025

Are you looking for a vibrant city life or a quieter, family-friendly community? Posted in Uncategorized Share Article Subscribe to the Sound Physicians Blog A trusted source for todays healthcare needs. Do you dread a long winter, or has the cold never bothered you anyway?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

A 2022 article in the Harvard Business Review introduced the term sludge to describe “these types of situations in which the design of a specific process consistently impedes individuals from completing their intended action.”

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Sound Physicians

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Osman Saleem Osman Saleem, MD Medical Director, Mercy Hospital of Buffalo We’re honored to host, and even launch, the careers of so many incredible healthcare professionals who are not only experts in their field but also dedicated to the health and vitality of their community. Thanks to God, we have achieved that goal.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

During this episode, we hear from Dr. Nav Persaud, a staff physician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at St. Additionally, Indigenous communities experience lower life expectancy, higher burden of disease, and lower socioeconomic status compared to non-Indigenous Peoples.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Summary Transcript Summary. What would it take to transform dementia care? Transcript. Judy: Thank you.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JULY 28, 2020

A recent article found that women were underrepresented among all authorship positions in clinical problem-solving articles, which is consistent with previous studies demonstrating that women are less likely to be invited to author editorials and publish in peer-reviewed medical journals. Truly, a superwoman.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. There’s an article about her in New York Times. Should it? If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? Who should get it if anyone? Is that right, Soo?

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Helene highlighted that even wealthy communities and well-financed and well-educated populations can be caught off guard and devastated. If our family were to evacuate for a severe weather event and return to find a completely destroyed home or town, what would that look like financially? You have all seen it over the past week.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Attendee 2: With hospice and palliative medicine, I feel like it can help the communities, it can help the hospitals, so I feel really hopeful that it will be more and more into the practice of medicine. We’ve got a very large palliative care practice,” Rodgers told PCN. Alex, what’s going on here? Do you remember what it is?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Today we are coming back for more (or less given the content), talking about the following articles with their lead authors: First up, we talk with Ariel Green about her article in JAMA Network on preferred phrases a clinician may use to explain why they should reduce or stop the medication. Welcome, Liz, to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids. We debate the merits of use of CGM in the nursing home and other late life settings (Eric and I argue against CGM and lose). Listen in to learn more!

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

The beautiful thing about it, it’s more than just having a career development award; it’s a community of aging researchers. One of the highlights really is the networking and the community that it fosters and highlighted, in some ways, by the meeting, which of course you often lead the sing along at. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

The US Preventive Services Task Force , the American Academy of Family Physicians , and the American College of Chest Physicians recommend annual low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening for adults 50 to 80 years of age who have at least a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have smoked within the past 15 years.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

She enjoyed talking with the half dozen other residents at her adult family home in Washington state. “It’s also often the family member or the person helping to manage them.” She works with the patient and a family member who often has power of attorney. A headband was tied around her white hair.

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Edge Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Edge Family Medicine , serving Upland, Montclair, and Rancho Cucamonga , offers both telemedicine and in-person visits , ensuring you get the right care when you need it. At Edge Family Medicine , we provide comprehensive in-person care , ensuring accurate diagnosis and effective treatment for conditions requiring a physical assessment.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Lock To Live provides tools that can help you talk to patients and families about temporarily reducing access to potentially dangerous things like firearms, medicines, sharp objects or other household items. Firearm Life Plan offers peace of mind to older adult firearm owners and families. LINK to article

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

First, we’ve invited Jerry Gurwitz to talk about his recently published article in JAMA titled The Paradoxical Decline of Geriatric Medicine as a Profession (while it’s not the most upbeat title for the future of geriatrics, Jerry sees it as a call to action). Mike, welcome to GeriPal. Mike: Great to be here. Jerry: I sure am.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. Welcome to GeriPal, Lyndsay. Lyndsay: Thank you so much.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

For a deeper diver into these issues, check out some of the following links: Ira’s Stat new article “Hospice care needs saving” GeriPal’s episode on the growing role of private equity in hospice care Acquisitions of Hospice Agencies by Private Equity Firms and Publicly Traded Corporations. JAMA Health Forum. Is it you, Ira?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In an article in the NEJM (a published article this time, wonder of wonders!) We’ve talked at length on prior podcasts about the failures of aducnumab, Biogen, and the FDA’s decision to approve it. . But wait, there’s a shiny new anti-amyloid drug, lecanemab! (No No it’s not just the French version of Aducanumab). . Transcript.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

If you want to do a deeper dive into some of the articles we discuss, take a look at the following: An awesome JAMA review by Sarah on fall risk assessment and prevention in community-dwelling adults. Sarah 03:57 Yeah, it’s a pretty big problem for older adults, I’d say in community dwellers. Eric 00:57 Subdued.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Psychedelics have been used by communities around the globe for hundreds of years (or more). The efficacy of psychedelics without therapy, and the impact of variations in therapy type, training, duration, is unknown. Ethical issues , including colonization of psychedelics by big pharma. We cover these issues and more in today’s podcast.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, and LJ Van Scoy argue that diverse communities are asking for ACP. Sarah Nouri gives an example from her work in the LGBTQ+ community of a trans woman who was buried as a man because existing laws/rules did not protect her wishes. But before we jump into that topic, I think somebody has a song request.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. So in preparation for this, I read a couple articles about social work leadership in palliative care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Our guests are BJ Miller, palliative care physician and c-founder of Mettle Health , and Naomi Saks, chaplain at UCSF. MOC Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.75 ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Alex: Yeah.

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