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The Role of Lifestyle Medicine in Reversing Early Chronic Disease

Edge Family Medicine

As a leading family medical practice in Upland, CA, we champion evidence-based approaches that empower patients to take control of their health. Lifestyle medicine is a patient-centered, evidence-based approach that treats the root causes of chronic diseases. What is Lifestyle Medicine?

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Need to See a Doctor Fast? Here’s How Urgent Care Could Save Your Day

Plum Health

As a doctor with experience in both primary care and urgent care , I’ve seen firsthand how urgent care centers have become a lifeline for many patients. In this article, I’ll walk you through why urgent care could be your best option when time is of the essence. I once had a patient with an asthma attack come into urgent care.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 1: Differentiating organic versus psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status

PEMBlog

Most children who present to Pediatric Emergency Departments these days with mental health concerns – including agitation – have a known psychiatric problem or diagnosis. Furthermore, the connection between physical and functional symptoms is inextricably linked in many patients.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Des delivered a plenary at this year’s National Palliative Care Research Center’s Foley retreat. In particular, mental health integration and issues in pain and in palliative care.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. Your research is a lot in this patient population, right? Big randomized control study that came out. Lyndsay: Yes.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 2: Non-pharmacologic management of agitated children

PEMBlog

Patient that are agitated should always be treated with dignity and respect. This entails utilizing the least invasive non-pharmacologic means of assisting them, before moving to physical or chemical restraints. These articles will take another look at the content included in this episode.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Welcome back, William. Delighted to be here.