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Group summarizes new guidelines for treating patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease

Medical Xpress

The latest clinical practice guideline from the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) organization offers advice for treating patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD).

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

On average, twice as many patients have contact with GPs than with all specialists (in offices and/or outpatient clinics) combined. As shown in the following graph, primary care services amount for only 8.1% 29 Source: OECD Health Statistics 2020 (without dental care) 29 8. The numbers above leave no room for doubt.

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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

GeriPal

We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. To the deeper emotions – of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence – that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. Advance Care Planning. Wounded Healer poetry sessions .

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I had the tenacity and education to try to figure this out. I found it to be an incredibly hard journey.