Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2025

Your Connecticut-based primary care doctor is a good place to start, as they understand your health history and can refer you to a trusted hormone doctor that specializes in your condition. Friends and family members who’ve seen a hormone doctor are another useful source of recommendations.

Board-Certified 52

Board-Certified Appointment Insurance Consulting 52

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

People often see an endocrinologist after being referred by their primary care provider. While primary care providers are trained to manage conditions like diabetes, they rely on endocrinologists to provide more specialized care. Board certification demonstrates a doctor’s exceptional expertise in their specialty.

Board-Certified 52

Board-Certified Primary Care Insurance Diabetes 52

Priority Physicians

JANUARY 20, 2025

Should you check in with your primary care physician or skip that step and go to a specialist, assuming your physician will send you there anyway? But if you’re a patient of a direct primary care (DPC) practice , you don’t need to guess about orthopedic pain management. On the drive home, it’s swelling and painful.

Management 52

Management Primary Care Physician Primary Care Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. And that’s when I started to learn about palliative care, as a clinician, and really didn’t see them around a whole lot with my patients and started advocating for them to be part of their care.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Kathleen 03:47 I think any of us who’ve spent any time in nursing homes have spent time working in a nursing home setting, have visited, had family members in nursing homes and looked around and seen the population there. That can’t go out for specialty care all the time, like pain management. That’s a big question.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? There’s not been literature that I’m aware of that demonstrates how much of this is sort of goal concordant care or not. She has advance dementia. They would be horrified.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Have you had a family history of substance use disorder? Most palliative care clinicians would refer back to their primary care provider and not change their hydrochlorothiazide dose or add another agent.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136