Vascular Physician

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If you have been diagnosed with diabetes or PAD, managing your condition is the best way to prevent it from worsening and contributing to other health issues. This is done through a combination of a physical exam, a study known as ankle-brachial index, ultrasound, CT angiography, or angiography.

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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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Finance Education Family Families 52

Vascular Physician

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Here is what you should know about CVI in order to manage your symptoms and improve your quality of life. In most cases, CVI can be effectively managed with a combination of lifestyle changes and compression therapy. It's estimated that CVI affects up to forty percent of people in the U.S.

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Complication Appointment Management Healthcare 52

Vascular Physician

DECEMBER 21, 2022

First, they will perform a physical exam, review your health history, and check your kidney function with blood and urine tests. In most cases, RAS does not exhibit any noticeable signs or symptoms. Renal angioplasty and stenting: This procedure is performed to open up narrowed blood vessels and maximize blood flow to the kidney.

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IT Complication Appointment Diagnose 52

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. Here are a few reasons: Overwhelmingly, index funds have lower expense ratios because they are passively managed. This will come as no surprise to most healthcare workers. This saves you money.

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Finance Individual Management IT 52

PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

This is a blog post and a podcast episode designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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Asthma Electronics Utilities Clinical Practice 52

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The role of lifestyle and dietary modifications in management. Management of gastritis and the consideration of Helicobacter pylori infection. Gastroesophageal Reflux: Management Guidance for the Pediatrician. They do, though, have distinct pathophysiologies and management strategies. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr.

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Diagnosis Management Patient-Centered Diagnose 52

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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Patients Screening Illness Physicals 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. I actually wrote a blog post about this when we were a blog. We were a blog? Alex: And, it means pain management. Alex: We are only on the fourth of 10.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. 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. It’s since spread to over 70 VAs. SPONSOR: . Heather: Sure.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

This episode will help you better prepare for and manage children with inborn errors of metabolism in the Emergency Department. Consider it a supplement to what you remember from Biochemistry and the instructions on the family’s laminated care plan sheet. So, importantly, you may not have a positive family history.

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Consulting Individual Family Families 59

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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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And then when I did residency in internal medicine first, there was just a lot of focus on a lot of heroic management in the ICU that didn’t always appeal to me without thinking about what the morbidity might look like. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor. Ken Covinsky wrote about it for GeriPal.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 96

PEMBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Learn all about diagnosis and management of this common problem in this brief podcast episode. The physical exam of a Child with possible laryngeal malaysia focuses on the airway and breathing naturally. So this management is conservative, includes upright feeding, antireflux therapy, so alterations to how you Feed, burp, and position.

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Diagnosis Diagnose IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

And I actually shared that story with Bonnie’s manager and she just thought it was pretty cool that the whole thing had come full circle, the song that she was inspired by them and then they were so moved by the song that she wrote. And back then, mostly we took care of each other in the cells and it was like a family thing.

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Family Families IT Board-Certified 97

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. Links: – Uncanny Valley post on Josh’s fantastic substack Notes from a Family Meeting.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. Eric 05:46 So I got a question. So it’s a lot of palliation.

Illness 101

Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). What happened is that firstly, in terms of my clinical background, my background is psycho-oncology, so that’s working with patients with cancer and their families, including when they’re going through periods.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

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. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing.

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