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Geriatric Medicine Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Ruiz, MD, Chair, ABIM Geriatric Medicine Board The Geriatric Medicine Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on March 28, 2025. Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings.

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The US Healthcare System vs…….South Park ?!?!

Noreta Family Medicine

It seems that no medical director wants to be the first to agree to pay for a “new” medication, even if it has been on the market for years and has been shown to be the most effective medicine out there! Now, I want to be clear that by writing this blog, I am not saying that health insurance companies are evil!

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Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist

Priority Physicians

Dr. Jonathan Schmidt Dr. Schmidt is a board-certified family medicine physician with undergraduate degrees in Microbiology and medicine from Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois. Contact your DPC physician immediately. Make your Priority Physicians your first stop. Reach out today.

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Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Priority Physicians

We all want to know how to stop fearing the future. Although anxiety appears to be the new malady du jour , much of it is natural and normal. Sometimes, it’s even protective. From an evolutionary standpoint, anxiety is an effective survival mechanism. After all, it saved early man from getting too close to cliffs, which is why we’re here today!

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Trading One Substance for Another: Replacing Alcohol With THC

Priority Physicians

Dr. Jonathan Schmidt Dr. Schmidt is a board-certified family medicine physician with undergraduate degrees in Microbiology and medicine from Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois. Recreationally, you can have bad symptoms or overdose with THC. What Does THC Do? THC overdose is possible.

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

What is the meaning of Family Medicine? As the name suggests, a family physician can take care of your entire family – from the day of your birth (even before!) I love family medicine because as family physicians, we can be trained to provide care for patients in many different settings.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Also delighted to welcome, Devon Check, who is a health services and implementation researcher, and assistant professor at the Duke University School of Medicine. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal. It’s me.

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