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10 Tips to Find the Best Diabetes Doctor for Type 2 Diabetes

Dr. Zaar

Certified Diabetes Educators (CDE): While not doctors, they play a key role in diabetes education and lifestyle support. Look for Board Certification and Credentials Make sure the doctor is board-certified in endocrinology or internal medicine. That’s often a sign of quality and access to advanced resources.

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Action Needed to Close Racial Gaps in Autism Services

Physician's Weekly

To address these clinical gaps, a paper published in Pediatrics identifies four priorities for future improvement: funding, improving representation in autism research, service quality, and workforce development. Those from marginalized backgrounds often face difficulty accessing these services. Black participants: 7.7% Asian participants: 6.4%

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Hematology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Gertz, MD, MACP, Chair, ABIM Hematology Board The Hematology Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of ABIM policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on May 2, 2025. The group discussed policy shifts and potential implications for graduate medical education and health equity.

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

GeriPal

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Who do we have with us today? Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

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? So that part we know and I.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

I was part of a writing group that wrote clinical guidelines for VSET for voluntarily stopping eating and drinking. And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? Clinicians certified her as terminally ill because of the V said. Why did you write this paper? That would be.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

Because pre-pandemic, right, there was issues with you had to be boarded in the state, right? And how are you going to know that when you’re just getting random referrals from teaching hospitals, for example? So it developed all this issue around what is a qualifying referral that would allow me to do telehealth prescribing?