Noreta Family Medicine

MARCH 26, 2025

We are dedicated to staying connected with our patients, ensuring they are up-to-date with follow-up appointments, preventive screenings, referrals, medication refills, and any other care needs. Melissa Boylan, MD, FAAFP Family Physician and Owner of Noreta Family Medicine ← Read Past Articles Here! Have a good week!

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Primary Care Appointment DO Family Medicine 52

Tiny Physician

JULY 12, 2021

Even if you read the latest articles and try to follow what is given in that, you will still find it difficult to understand certain portions. Casualty OP patient load decides the number of ward admission as the sick children often come at casualty and not at referral OP.

Internal Medicine 52

Internal Medicine Management ER Referral 52

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).

Complication 97

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

On the other hand, there is a concerning side, described in this Guardian article titled, I’m a life coach, you’re a life coach: rise of an unregulated industry. Second thing to say is that I think referrals are really important. I have hired coaches based on referrals. Eric: We’ll have a link to one of those articles.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

So, if it’s a hospitalized patient, usually the referral will come through to the SLP service. We don’t have to go into that, but I do want to highlight, you had a JAGS article that was published on pre-hospitalization dysphagia and feeding tube placement in nursing home residents with advanced dementia. Eric: Great.

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Edge Family Medicine

APRIL 10, 2025

Coordinated Specialist Referrals Your PCP is your guide through the larger healthcare system. If you need a specialist, they can make informed referrals and help you navigate next steps — ensuring continuity and clarity. Preventive Care that Works Primary care is your first line of defense.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 11, 2025

A recent article in the BMJ summarized a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline on identification and management of gambling-related harms. Although prevalence estimates in North America are low (1.5% of women, 2.7% People with gambling disorder are at increased risk for self-harm and suicide attempts.

Management 52

Management Referral Mental Health Community 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Find out on this weeks podcast where we invite Joseph Greer, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson to talk about their recent JAMA article on Telehealth vs In-Person Early Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer – A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial. We would make referrals to psycho oncology. So it matters.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 106

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. So this point led us to select these articles. One of your articles addresses that.

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. And what does that referral process look like? Connie 19:46 Yeah.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

” Whether it’s referrals that need to be made, or whether they’re specific actions that the person at home needs to take, like a home safety change. Mazie, I know it changes locale to locale, because your referral sources are going to be different. Mazie: Yes. ” Eric: Well, Mazie, I’m going to you.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

One of your articles also I thought was fascinating because in the cancer population, if you look at cancer pain, I think a lot of us think cancer pain, you treat it with neuropathic drugs, medications, opioids. Alex: And you had this fascinating article. Elissa: I want to push back on this a little bit too, if you don’t mind.

Mental Health 123

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 123

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Should it just be referral to their PMD, who’s all, “Why are these people telling me to do all this stuff all the time?” We’re going to be covering it in both cancer and in aging.

Illness 137

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. They actually published a really good article in December on what’s the role, how should we diagnose Alzheimer’s disease in primary care? But you wrote an article about what primary care Needs. What is the role of the amyloid antibody treatments?

Primary Care 97

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

And I had no idea what that would look like or what I would do until I happened upon an article by actually a fellow Winnipegger, a man named Jim Brown who was an expert in mood disorders. And decided, interesting article, but it raised as many questions as it answered. ” And we began writing and we got our first grant.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I’d also like to give a shout out to a recent ACP article on HFpEF with an outstanding contribution from Ariela Orkaby, geriatrician extraordinaire (we also just did a podcast with her on frailty ). ** This podcast is not CME eligible. If you have access to that, I think, is the way to go. Eric 14:10 Yeah.

Primary Care 114

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 114

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

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So we have a list of various interventions like hospice referral, like more intensive treatment for blood pressure, more intensive treatment for diabetes, for dysglycemia, hyperglycemia, statins, bisphosphonates. Eric: Okay, I’m going to jump to the articles. Let’s start off with your article, James. James: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Thaddeus, you wrote an article in JAGS not too long ago.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

I spent my early time at Brady, and by the way, LaVera, your early article was pivotal for me when I came upon it, when I was working in that setting. And so helping physicians have more fluency in general spiritual care and how to make referrals to specialists when needed. Eric: And lastly, LaVera.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So you, Jennifer, probably have, like, the most cited, probably should be the most cited randomized controlled trial of palliative care and lung cancer patients that everybody, every palliative care article I’ve seen, whether or not it works, always includes, it was outpatient palliative care in lung cancer patients. We’re what?

Patient-Centered 120

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. And to keep it short work for an article. And I again, reference the readers back to this JAMDA article where we proposed a concerted coordinated framework for achieving an integrated model of palliative care in nursing homes.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Adherence to medical advice improves and unnecessary self-referrals to other doctors decrease. If so, please share this article! You know your patients’ evolving story as well as their family, friends, coworkers, and the peculiarities of their local community. Over time, more trust develops. Over time, communication improves.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Look at the way they talk to the public, referral like HIV prep. There was an article that came out about cancer center advertising. Tony: But the thing I will just say, the parallel there is think of the big public health campaigns that have been really successful: drunk driving, smoking cessation. God, that was a while ago.

Illness 101

Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It’s that first place that you start where it may not be the AAAs job, but we’ve organized where they have to have the partnerships and they know who the players are and they know who to make a referral to. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. I think most states have them.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It’s not a new debate but has gathered steam at least in palliative care circles since Sean Morrisons published a JPM article titled “ Advance Directives/Care Planning: Clear, Simple, and Wrong.” And pointed out some of these inconsistencies with what was actually noted and concluded in some of the articles. Get the hospice referral.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Eric 01:07 So we have an amazing lineup of guests and we’re going to be talking about a pragmatic study on advanced care planning, which we’ll have links to in our show, notes for the actual article. Ideally the conversation would happen before, but also clinicians were able to make referrals to facilitators.

Primary Care 80

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 80

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Here are some articles that Kira and I have written about the topic, and that’s really how my interest in addressing sexual health concerns started. Eric 39:21 Again, thinking about, like, basic approaches to these really common problems up to date, certainly out there, referrals. And I work right next to Don at the time.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

You wrote the SF Chronicle article on an op-ed. Carly: Absolutely, and I will say we had a really hard time narrowing it down to these three because amongst those of us who wrote that article, we can think of hundreds of people. So Carly, I’m going to start off with you. What instigated you to write an op-ed?

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

A podcast producer and director emeritus of WOUB Public Media zeroed in on our article about restless doctors, sharing his thoughts on X: This must be Trump and Kennedy’s idiotic plan to make American Healthy Again… [link] — Tom Hodson (@thodson) May 29, 2025 — Tom Hodson, Athens, Ohio Oh, Canada Welcomes American Doctors!

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