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Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Mesa Family Physician

During your comprehensive check-up at our Mesa clinic, our board-certified physicians will not only assess your current health status but also help you understand your risk factors for various conditions based on your family history, lifestyle, and previous medical records. We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all medicine.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.

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

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nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. Consider this: the majority of the 1.4 What do we know about.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

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Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. My voice is nothing special. I am not a board certified. I am not a certified music therapist. I let my boards lapse a few years ago. You might see me on the TV screens next year. Alex 09:00 Not true.

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

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Eric: We’re going to be talking about telemedicine for those who have serious illness, and this came out of a recent publication Carly did in the San Francisco Chronicle titled Telemedicine Helps People in Pain, Don’t Take That Away. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness.