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Why I don’t do “weight loss” as a primary care physician

Vida Family Medicine

While losing weight is often suggested to lower the risk of chronic conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart disease, the risk of prescribing weight loss is overlooked. Some people need medication to manage metabolic conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

In our third segment, we explore Amy Linskys study that examined the effect of patient-directed educational materials on clinician deprescribing of potentially low-benefit or high-risk medications, such as proton pump inhibitors, high-dose gabapentin, or risky diabetes medications. So insulin, which is the injections, and then sulfonylurea.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. I’d been working with persons who had diabetes and also caregivers and so forth, trying to go at the direction and realize as I look more and more at hearing loss, that it was totally unrecognized in clinical practice. Alex: Great story.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

And often patients are told there’s no cardiovascular problem, you don’t have heart failure, you’re older, or maybe it’s from another chronic condition or. He was describing his, like, 87 year old grandma who was placed on a low salt diabetic diet. They see it’s preserved. And this is an.

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Go on, Anna.

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