Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

For the first time, the rate of autism diagnosis is higher among Black and Hispanic/Latine populations and for those from a lower socioeconomic background, although they continue to face diagnostic disparities compared with White populations. Lower-paid positions lead to higher turnover, negatively impacting the quality of services.

Board-Certified 52

Board-Certified Behavioral Health Services Diagnose Referral 52

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We make a diagnosis. Because all of us understand how much the healthcare professions, and especially public health, just got whacked big time by a whole bunch of stuff, including COVID. You have to, A, have done a geriatrics fellowship and, B, had some ongoing and passed the geri board. It’s so different from therapy.

Board-Certified 110

Board-Certified IT Primary Care Referral 110

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

But in reality, given workforce shortages and just the challenges and the resources necessary to be able to provide early integrated palliative care from the time of diagnosis of advanced cancer, the model simply is not implementable, at least not in our current state with our available infrastructure and resources. So it matters.

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. And as of 2015, the survey started to ask folks about cancer history, just some broad questions about lifetime history of cancer and whether they’ve had a cancer diagnosis in the past year.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? Yeah, but I mean, in healthcare you need to appreciate the risks, benefits and alternatives of the proposed intervention. Just got the diagnosis based on blood tests of amyloid. Then just got the diagnosis.

IT 87

IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 87