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Green Practice News: April 2025

My Green Doctor

It tells your office colleagues and patients that your healthcare practice or clinic is committed to forging a healthier work space and community. Relate sustainability topics to chronic disease prevention—air pollution and asthma, heat exposure and cardiovascular risks, food systems and metabolic health. Let’s talk!

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How can you improve your relationship with food?

Vida Family Medicine

The patients that I see are often highly motivated to take good care of themselves to prevent or control a chronic disease. Eating disorders affect 9% of the population, but even those without clinically diagnosed eating disorders suffer from disordered eating behaviors- one study identified these behaviors in 75% of women ages 25-45.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans. These are patients who had a pre-existing chronic disease, very broadly defined. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

Is it that they’re clinically depressed or that they’re understandably sad at the situation that they’re in or specific issues? So there is this meaningful difference between appropriate reactions to illness and clinically significant symptoms of mental health problems. It’s high, it’s too high.