Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

For residents of Mesa and the surrounding East Valley communities, staying current with recommended preventive care can lead to better health outcomes and reduced healthcare costs. In Arizona’s climate, skin cancer screenings are particularly important given our high sun exposure.

Preventative Care 100

Preventative Care Preventive Care Family Physician Screening 100

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. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Katie: Yeah.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study. Like, you can’t really improve good quality of life? David: Exactly. Eric: Same thing, right?

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? Connie 13:10 So generally what, what I see, very rural, is a nurse practitioner that’s out of our local home health and hospice agency that is palliative care certified. Like, what does that part look like? And usually it’s simply for a consultation.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. Who would/should be on that board? So their caregivers did focus groups. Marie 05:25 Sure.

Consulting 63

Consulting Community Patient-Centered Family 63

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Because pre-pandemic, right, there was issues with you had to be boarded in the state, right? I mean people can walk to your office and you can have all kinds of problems recorded to your prescription just because they came to your office rather than you looked at them on a computer screen doesn’t really change. Go ahead Eric.

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73