Family Physicians of Cedar Rapids

MAY 19, 2025

And much like in education, our health journey is full of milestones too. Having a trusted medical team, supportive family, and access to reliable information makes all the difference. As the season of caps, gowns, and proud celebrations arrives, it’s hard not to reflect on what graduation really means. Health works the same way.

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Bill Skelton, founder of the Acupuncture Clinic here in Columbia, SC, gave me the film to watch and said he thought that as a Direct Primary Care physician and owner of Noreta Family Medicine, I would appreciate it. As a family doctor who has worked for a large hospital system in the past, I fully agree with this contention.

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Sound Physicians

OCTOBER 30, 2024

I was born and raised in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, before immigrating to Toronto with my family. From the very start of my transition to medical director, I have enjoyed the incredible support, education, and development needed to fulfill the duties of this position. How has Sound supported your leadership development?

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For many who follow the blog regularly, you likely have noticed that I haven’t published a blog post in quite some time (a month or two). Because of this, carving out the time for family remains a top priority, and as our family grows, more and more time is needed to make that goal a reality.

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East Cary Family Physicians

OCTOBER 20, 2023

At East Cary Family Physicians, we believe that knowledge is power. In this blog, we’ll explore the importance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, focusing on early detection, prevention, and the vital role of regular screenings in women’s healthcare. While it primarily affects women, men can also develop this disease.

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Barton Associates

MAY 29, 2025

These crucial healthcare providers can be found in almost every healthcare setting, including, but not limited to: Hospitals Private Practices Urgent Cares Higher Education Corporate Clinics Telehealth Services Insurance Companies Correctional Facilities Indian Health Service (IHS) Facilities Why is the physician shortage growing?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 20, 2020

He started his blog, PBFluids in 2008. He is the founder and program director of the Nephrology Social Media Collective internship which trains medical professionals to use social media for medical education. In her spare time, she enjoys exploring with her dog Sammie, spending time with family and friends, and playing board games.

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ABIM

JUNE 12, 2025

Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. In the case of geriatric medicine, they identified challenges of interpreting or distinguishing data where they overlap between family medicine (ABFM) physicians and internal medicine (ABIM) physicians. Learn More Subscribe to the ABIM Blog to stay on top of the latest news.

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PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Focusing a lot on when to image, when not to image, and how to communicate imaging decisions effectively with families.

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ABIM

MAY 18, 2025

With no family history and little cultural awareness of the disease, I was left wondering why or how this had happened to me. and globally are the cultural taboos, social stigma and lack of education about chronic digestive diseases. This burden of the disease is being felt by patients and healthcare providers.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

There will be episodes of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast, blog posts here on PEMBlog, articles from Don’t Forget the Bubbles , videos, and more! You will no doubt be familiar with the following five recommendations – even if you’ve never heard of the Choosing Wisely organization before.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) (see our blog post on this Special Fraud Alert here ). not friends, significant others, or family members of a speaker or invitee). not friends, significant others, or family members of a speaker or invitee).

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Add in the complexities of family life, child-rearing, and pursuing any interest outside of your career, and much of your time is spoken for. How, then, can any physician find the time to research individual companies and make educated decisions on which publicly traded businesses are undervalued? We simply cannot.

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Vascular Physician

JULY 11, 2021

Raynaud phenomenon is more common in young women and in those with a family history. Educating patients on the link between emotional stress and Raynaud's phenomenon is important and attention to mental health disorders should be considered. Vasoconstriction of the digits can also occur due to emotional stress.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

JUNE 1, 2022

I love my Plastic Surgery residency family! It's crazy how when I started this blog in 2013, she was a tiny little elementary aged kid and now she's only a couple of years away from graduating high school and heading to college. Time flies! Literally living my prayers and dreams! I think that's all I have in terms of updates.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Many who follow this blog know that I reside in South Carolina. However, this is a personal finance blog, and for me, it goes beyond that. Helene highlighted that even wealthy communities and well-financed and well-educated populations can be caught off guard and devastated.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 4, 2022

Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now the FDA’s Office of Chief Counsel). National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization from 1983-1985. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to his wonderful wife, Sophia, and to his entire family. In 1967, Jim became an Assistant U.S.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Have a detailed discussion with the patient and family and do shared decision making in terms of interventions, the GI does, and again, these will be the gold standards. So in the odd, rare scenario where you have a family member being treated for H. So, a kid with mild symptoms, and you want to rule out gallbladder disease?

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 11, 2021

They are a product of deep-rooted man-made policies that extend to many sectors (healthcare, education, criminal justice etc). You can draw a line from these discriminatory housing policies, to the wealth gap, to disparities in education, health, and police brutality. The Coronavirus Will Explode Achievement Gaps in Education.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

One family’s daughter was the first U.S. Other families have had to try and get access in Milan, Italy, where a gene therapy for MLD has already been approved. Another family with two children with MLD had a similar experience: I can tell you without a doubt that the gene therapy has helped our youngest son.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. And so I really gain that and I love the chorus words that she uses in this song.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In 1998, a Letter to the Editor in American Family Physician expressed concerns about the relatively new practice of pharmaceutical advertising directly to patients. A quarter of a century later, the United States remains the only country besides New Zealand where DTCA for prescription drugs is completely legal.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

And back then, mostly we took care of each other in the cells and it was like a family thing. AIDs didn’t know any color or creed, so it was a family thing, we all took care of each other. And it’s a family environment, it becomes like a big family here. And this is my family, who I spend my time with.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Kit Carney and Dr. Kristen Humphrey discuss gun violence, its impact on our patients and their families, as well as practical tips on advocating for safe storage of firearms, and how we can support victims of violence. Firearms, physicians, families, and kids: Finding words that work. Pediatrics November 2012; 130 (5): e1416–e1423.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The 18 methods of contraception listed in the guidelines are derived from a Birth Control Guide (Guide) that the FDA developed in the late 1990s to provide education around relative rates of efficacy across types of contraceptives.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. Janet: And Katie has a great CAPC blog too that kind of summarizes a lot of additional evidence and references online if you have access to that too. Eric: And why Under Pressure.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. And it was very clear, and she could now no longer recognize her family members. And the family says, dad would never want to live like this.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Here are a couple of articles if you want to do a deeper dive: Dani and colleagues article on Psychiatry and Palliative Care: Growing the Interface Through Education. So in those cases, can we adopt an approach to mental health care that centers primarily around quality of life of patients and their families?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

This podcast was initially sparked by Josh’s “Note From a Family Meeting” Substack post titled “ Ambivalence in Clinical Decision-Making ,” which discussed Bryanna’s and Jenny’s 2022 article titled “ Two Minds, One Patient: Clearing up Confusion About Ambivalence.” AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Josh, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

ELNEC (End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium) celebrates it’s 25th anniversary in 2025. He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion center? Doing home care? Hospice visits?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 21:31 Blog post, if we’re talking about the same study, was like, fast food palliative care, in and out palliative care, something like that. Or the article that, the fast food article, to use the parlance from the blog post. So I don’t know how clinically meaningful that week difference was to families.

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