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10 Tips to Find the Best Diabetes Doctor for Type 2 Diabetes

Dr. Zaar

Look for Board Certification and Credentials Make sure the doctor is board-certified in endocrinology or internal medicine. Consider Communication Style and Patient Rapport Diabetes is a chronic condition, so you need a doctor with whom you feel comfortable communicating. Do they explain things in simple, clear terms?

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The Role of Internal Medicine in Preventive Health Care

Mesa Family Physician

The Role of Internal Medicine in Preventive Health Care Internal medicine plays a central role in adult health, especially when it comes to prevention, diagnosis, and long-term care. Let’s explore the meaning and function of internal medicine and its importance in keeping adults healthy through all stages of life.

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

GeriPal

I would say it’s probably the most measured physiologic parameter and strangely still one of the least understood, especially in older adults with multiple chronic conditions. They have a lot of chronic conditions. Michelle 34:35 Absolutely. So frail or older adults. Eric 35:19 Yeah. What did you do in your study?

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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

Problem-based office visits address specific symptoms, manage existing health conditions, or follow up on previously identified concerns. Dr. Elena Washington, internal medicine specialist at Metropolitan Health Associates, clarifies: “Sometimes patients arrive for preventive visits with significant health concerns they want addressed.

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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. They see it’s preserved.

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

GeriPal

Anna Pleet is an internal medicine resident at Allegheny Health Network who has a collection of amazing YouTube videos on aging and the Mediterranean diet. Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. Who do we have with us on this podcast? Great to be here.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

I’m going to quote, so there’s an article in JAMA Internal Medicine recently by Madeline Sterling who’s in New York at Weill Cornell obtaining and paying for home care, navigating patients through the complex terrain of home care in the US.