Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

These are the moments when you don’t have time to wait for an appointment with your primary care doctor, and the emergency room (ER) seems like overkill. That’s where urgent care comes in—a middle ground that’s convenient, affordable, and effective. Why Choose Urgent Care? That’s frustrating for everyone involved.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Fontana and Gitanjali Srivastava, MD , shared their perspectives with PW about current and potential MASLD treatments and their impacts on patient care. Dr. Srivastava: This study is crucial because it provides robust evidence supporting weight loss as a primary intervention for MASLD.

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Patient-Centered Diabetes Referral Primary Care Doctor 52

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Anna Chodos is a geriatrician at UCSF and the Principal Investigator of Dementia Care Aware, a California-wide program to improve the detection of dementia in older adults who have Medi-Cal benefits. There’s an article about her in New York Times. Who should get it if anyone? What should we use to screen individuals? Here we go.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

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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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

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. When I see a patient? Matthew, I get the lyrics.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

For example, we once thought that the lower urinary tract was sterile, but we now know it has its own microbiome, which may even provide protection against infections. And in my medical training, becoming a primary care doctor, I realized that older adults, women and men were having a lot of these same symptoms.

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. A huge part of this decision rests on (1) her previously stated wishes, values, and goals (prior to the onset of dementia); and (2) the outcomes of surgery for patients with dementia. Summary Transcript Summary. She falls and breaks her hip.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101