Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

How Family Physicians Can Help Address Food Insecurity Family physicians are often the first point of contact for patients, uniquely positioning them to identify food insecurity and connect individuals to vital resources. Park Nicollet Health Services combines nutrition education with SNAP referrals.

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Family Physician Community Family Families 52

Vascular Physician

JULY 11, 2021

Normally, when a healthy individual is exposed to cold temperatures the blood vessels in the fingers and toes vasoconstrict or narrow. Educating patients on the link between emotional stress and Raynaud's phenomenon is important and attention to mental health disorders should be considered.

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Referral Mental Health Patients Screening 52

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

In individuals with celiac disease, gluten intake leads to an immune mediated inflammatory response that damages the small intestine’s mucosal lining, specifically the villi. But if they’re not improving, And that could be a cause for referral to gastroenterology. So celiac disease can cause dyspepsia symptoms as well.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management Patient-Centered IT 52

ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. The group discussed policy shifts and potential implications for graduate medical education and health equity. Dr. van Havre spoke about ASH’s efforts to map educational materials to topics in the hematology taxonomy and assign competency levels to each one.

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Board-Certified Board-Certified Physicians Government Community 40

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Adherence to medical advice improves and unnecessary self-referrals to other doctors decrease. All of that is especially important for disadvantaged individuals with more risk factors, more chronic diseases, more medications, and lower health literacy. Over time, more trust develops. Over time, communication improves.

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Family Physician Family Families GP 130

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. 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.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119