Physician's Weekly

JUNE 14, 2025

The following is a summary of “Effects of deprescribing antidepressants in nursing home residents with dementia—a cluster randomized controlled trial,” published in the June 2025 issue of BMC Primary Care by Hølmkjær et al. Most individuals were women, with a median age of 85 years.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

Source: bmcprimcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12875-025-02901-2 The post Role of General Practitioners in Acute Case Handling first appeared on Physician's Weekly. Analysis of 500+ urgent GP visits in Germany shows most cases were handled in-office, often driven by fear, distress, or a need for reassurance.

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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. How might primary care physicians coordinate this care in settings with limited specialist access?

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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.” Remembering to eat or not eat, or what to eat, before being tested. The list goes on.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 2, 2025

We didn’t need technologies to be able to differentiate between patients based on coughs, as primary care physicians have been doing that for centuries. These could even make cough monitoring as common as step tracking to inform individual patients and provide doctors with deeper health insights.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 21, 2025

The study published in the June 2025 issue of American Journal of Surgery Researchers examined the impact of weight management on transplant access and survival among individuals with obesity and ESRD. They applied a Markov state transition model to assess the effectiveness of 3 weight loss strategies in individuals with morbid obesity and ESRD.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

kg/m 2 The results showed that from 2005–2008 to 2015–March 2020, the proportion of individuals with a triple overlap of COPD, severe obesity, and HR-OSA rose from 0.653% [95% CI, 0.651–0.655%] to 1.560% [95% CI, 1.557–1.563%]. High risk for OSA (HR-OSA) was defined using a modified Multivariable Apnea Prediction (MAP) index.

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BMJ

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Therefore, primary care researchers may be unsure about how to go about planning and conducting a longitudinal qualitative study in family medicine, and about the value of such design. following individual or groups of participants). The value of LQR There is great value in using LQR in family medicine. the COVID-19 pandemic).

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Noreta Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

Fast forward to the present day in which I am a practicing Direct Primary Care (DPC) family physician. I have personally seen the benefits of Direct Primary Care for both patients and doctors, but there is very little published research about DPC. This is simply not financially viable for individual researchers.

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Myriad Genetics

MAY 1, 2025

As a breast cancer health clinical care nurse navigator, Chelsea not only serves as a registered nurse at NMC, but also as a patient advocate, guiding individuals through the complexities of the healthcare system. “I Helping patients identify whether they are at high risk is care. Alban’s Northwest Messenger in a recent article.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 6, 2024

In this article, I want to give you a clearer understanding of what concierge medicine is, why it’s gaining popularity, and how it might be a good fit for you. Concierge medicine is a healthcare model that offers patients personalized care, better access to their doctor, and a more proactive approach to managing their health.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

In the article, the researchers note that a minimum of 26 contact hours with the family is required for optimal prevention. However, we cannot overlook systemic factors, such as access to care, socioeconomic status, neighborhood safety, or walkability, that make it more challenging for some individuals to maintain a healthy weight.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. What should we use to screen individuals? There’s an article about her in New York Times. Who should get it if anyone? Here we go.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Sonali Advani and Lona Mody talk about their recent JAGS article highlighting three recent articles that every clinician caring for older adults should be aware of in the treatment of infectious diseases (hint: I’ve never finished a course of antibiotics, and maybe your patients don’t need that full course either).

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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. So maybe individualized; is that right?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Today we learn more about coaching from 3 coaches: Greg Pawlson, coach and former president of the American Geriatrics Society, Vicky Tang, geriatrician-researcher at UCSF and coach , and Beth Griffiths, primary care internist at UCSF and coach. We address: What is coaching? How does it differ from therapy? From Beth Israel and UNC.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

A 2023 Cochrane for Clinicians article found similar benefits but also noted that for every 10,000 people screened, 363 unnecessary invasive tests are performed. Domains included eligibility, recruitment, setting, organization, flexibility of delivery, flexibility of adherence, follow-up, primary outcome, and primary analysis.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. Great to be back.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

I’m thinking of chronic pain, for example, and individuals with chronic pain often have disturbed sleep or other conditions. We also worked a little bit with the primary care team certain of the risk factors. And because we can’t resist, we dip into aducanumab and lecanemab at the end. This is Eric Widera. Alex: Mm-hmm.

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The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For the better half of 2024, I have been periodically writing posts that are individual articles that double as potential chapters to a future book. Before we discuss each individual savings account, let us first highlight exactly what it means to ‘automate’ your savings. Saving money is simple but not easy.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program.

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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). I was going to start off by asking Jerry about why he wrote the JAMA article.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

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. The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. We’re doing a number of work. Not the patients?

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Advance care planning doesn’t work. I’m not sure if you read that article and whether or not it’s changed your mind or whether or not you want to do any more research in advance care planning. And as you know, it’s a great article. Your thoughts? LJ: Definitely read it.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

This week, we discuss an article by bioethicists Govind Persad and Emily Largent arguing that the NIH guidance for allocation of Paxlovid during conditions of scarcity. And then tier two is unvaccinated individuals not included in tier one who are at risk for severe disease. What’s wrong with that? Why not prioritize them?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This all came out from JAGS just published their first Clin-STAR corner, which is, and we’ll talk about what that is, but it’s a series of articles bringing in specialists to talk about updates in the last couple years within their field. Eric: So we got a pretty exciting topic today. Eric: And then what is Clin-STAR corner?

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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. You know, I wonder how much, because it’s probably not brought up a lot in primary care settings. Eric 04:51 Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Eric: And in the article that’s being published in JAGS, you have multiple tables. Eric: So I guess it was table two in the JAGS article is about potentially inappropriate drugs. The review articles, the case studies, opinion pieces, things like that. So we’re trying to find articles that maybe support.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Jessie: Exactly.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

First, we talk with Christine, a researcher and geriatrician from the University of North Carolina, who recently published a JAGS article titled Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections by nursing home clinicians versus a clinical guideline. So my algorithm in that article is really based off the work Van Bo et all have done.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A great Curbsiders podcast episode on Trauma-informed care with Megan Gerber CAPCs Trauma-informed care toolkit Mariahs article on Home-Based Care for LGBTQ or another diverse gender identity Older Adults ** This podcast is not CME eligible. We’re going to be talking about trauma informed care.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Today, we talk with Bernie Lo, prominent bioethicist and practicing primary care internist, and Laurie Dornbrand, geriatrician at the IOA On Lok PACE, about the legacy of Nancy Curzan. You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Having read at least some of your research articles there’s a lot of focus around this intersection between what happens to people after the hospital stay post-acute, especially in the cancer patients. Eric: I felt that reading the article. We’ll have a link to that article on our show notes. Ann: Likely.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. And so the article focuses on the work of these three men who were mostly gang involved and did something really bad when they were young.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

In today’s podcast we talk with surgeon Samir Shah and Health Services Researcher Joel Weissman about a pair of JAGS articles they published on the outcomes of high risk surgery and advance care planning among persons with dementia. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Samir. Samir: Thanks, Alex and Eric. It was Remember Me. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

So what is the role of individuals like geriatricians in prescribing amyloid antibodies and caring for individuals who are receiving them? And I do think geriatricians need to as individuals make that decision, largely based on their comfort with the diagnostics and the specifics of the therapeutics.

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