Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

Despite private and public insurance plans fully covering lung cancer screening in the United States, only 10% to 30% of eligible individuals in were receiving it in a recent state-by-state survey.

Primary Care 59

Primary Care Screening Family Physician DO 59

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I’m sort of seeing them in clinic for consideration of palliative radiation, they have a lot going on. Now patients are living so much longer that they’re coming back to my clinic after I’ve treated them with radiation. I know, I’m sure it depends with insurance and where you are.

Patient-Centered 102

Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

FDA Law

MARCH 17, 2022

Proposed 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, 87 Fed. et al, CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids-United States, 2022, CDC. CDC Clinical Practice Guideline, 10. On February 10th, the agency published a comprehensive proposal to update the guideline. 7,838 (Feb.

Patient-Centered 75

Patient-Centered Clinical Practice Patients Individual 75

ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

The questionnaire gathers information about clinical work and practice patterns, and ABIM uses the information to help update exam blueprints, develop policies for initial certification and MOC, and ensure adequately diverse representation of the profession in research.

Board-Certified 40

Board-Certified Board-Certified Physicians Government Community 40

ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

Representatives from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE), the Association of Program Directors in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (APDEM) and the Endocrine Society joined for a portion of the meeting*.

Diabetes 52

Diabetes Board-Certified Telehealth Government 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. No, you can’t- Eric: Why not?

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

FDA is considering approval, shifting away from Schedule I restrictions, paving the way for use in clinical practice. And some people in studies and just in clinical use have found that to be helpful, including for patients with serious illness. If you put on your clinical hats, what is demoralization to you?

Patient-Centered 91

Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

FDA Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain — United States, 2022. Expected clinical benefits should be weighed against risks before beginning therapy. Duration should be individualized based on the specific patient’s clinical circumstances. Dowell D, Ragan KR, Jones CM, Baldwin GT, Chou R.,

Patients 52

Patients Patient-Centered ER Individual 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). What do they do?

Patients 72

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Sharon Bober, clinical psychologist at DFCI, notes that clinicians can get caught in an anxiety cycle, in which they are afraid to ask, don’t ask, then have increased anxiety about not asking. And it actually came up during a clinical encounter that I had. Clearly this issue is important to patients. Sharon, welcome to Jerry Powell.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130