Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

You can schedule a consultation if you want personalized care for conditions like diabetes, thyroid disorders, adrenal disorders, bone health issues and more. Clinic location and hours: If you have a chronic endocrine condition, you’ll likely see your endocrinologist regularly. What Conditions Do Endocrinologists Treat?

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Priority Physicians

JANUARY 20, 2025

In our direct primary care setting, we take the time to deep-dive and explain options to our patients so they’re comfortable with a diagnosis and treatment plan that might not require an X-ray. Maybe they think it’s time to consult an orthopedic surgeon for immediate joint replacement. Scans are expensive and require scheduling.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. Infantile Cortical Hyperostosis The child protection team and orthopedics were consulted due to concern for possible healing femur fracture. This is the last of the four cases. mg/dL] Phosphorus 6.7 Reference Range 3.2-6.2

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

Ask questions: Ask what the doctor thinks are potential causes of your symptoms (this is called the differential diagnosis) and what they think is most likely. Many tests offered by alternative practitioners are not validated by high-quality clinical research and do not provide accurate or useful information.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Case: Mrs. G is a 66-year-old woman with a past medical history of insulin-dependent diabetes and peripheral artery disease admitted from clinic with concern for left ankle and foot cellulitis. Why isn’t she getting better? Dx Issues: The first step in investigating potential “antibiotic failure” is to reevaluate our working diagnosis.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The diagnosis of a virus illness is generally made clinically with a history and clinical exam and does not require confirmatory testing. The clinical utility of respiratory viral testing in hospitalized children: a meta-analysis. Reasons to not order a comprehensive respiratory viral panel (i.e., JAMA Pediatr.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. What’s the Diagnosis? Pulmonology and surgery were consulted during his hospital stay, and he has since had a left lower lobectomy after healing from his pneumonia. This is the second of the four cases.

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CDOCS

APRIL 7, 2021

This entails that I implement products that have been researched with scientific evidence and are proven as clinically viable. & Comparison of endodontic diagnosis and treatment planning decisions using cone-beam volumetric tomography versus periapical radiography. <em>J <em>J Endod.</em>

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

So, the consult will come in and then we’ll do what we call a clinical bedside evaluation, where we’ll go and see the patient at the bedside. So, if it’s a hospitalized patient, usually the referral will come through to the SLP service. Here at UW Health, we call it our Swallow Service. Eric: Fancy. Raele: Yes.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We have a discussion about the decision to remove race, a social construct, from clinical risk calculators (though I’m not 100% sold that race should always be removed – if removal is likely to worsen disparities for example – at least until a superior race-blind calculator can be developed). So you’re right.

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PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

(Blooms: Apply; Kirkpatrick Level 2 Learning) Evaluate the risks and benefits of ultrasound, CT, and MRI for common pediatric emergencies and identify appropriate imaging modalities based on clinical guidelines discussed in the podcast. Subspecialists are key, right? And that’s really not the case at all. and it can be overwhelming.

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Tiny Physician

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This may result in errors in the diagnosis of the patient whom the doctor was examining initially. Studies have shown that increasing manpower at hospitals has resulted in improvements in resident perceived educational value and clinical experience of ward rounds [7]. This will add to the burden of an already stretched system.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Attention to any toxidromes, any abnormal vital signs or mental status, eye findings, and neurologic examination provide the greatest help in narrowing the differential diagnosis. Clinical utility of screening laboratory tests in pediatric psychiatric patients presenting to the emergency department for medical clearance. Ann Emerg Med.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. It has to be seen as valued to clinical outcomes.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

In case you have missed it, click below to read- FEVER FAQ- Part 1 Fever Diagnosis: How is your health assessed? When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. Understanding the patient’s medical history is crucial for an accurate diagnosis.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Alex: We’re delighted to also welcome Greg Pawlson, who’s Senior Faculty at Lodestar Consulting & Executive Coaching and former President of the American Geriatric Society. We make a diagnosis. Beth, welcome to GeriPal. Beth: Thank you. Greg, welcome to GeriPal. It’s so different from therapy.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. It's a common challenge many people face.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. If in your own work, your clinical work, is this something that you see people struggle with you, you see yourself struggle with? Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

SkinIO , Scanoma , Miiskin , FirstDerm , Direct Derm , iDoc24 , and SkinVision all work based on the same principle: they promise patients the option to self-check their symptoms and then to connect to a dermatologist online for consultation within a very short period of time.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . In contrast to geriatrics, the evidence base for palliative care lagged clinical growth, in part because palliative care has no centralized “home” at the National Institutes of Health. By diagnosis? Kate: Sure.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. But watch out! That’s what I’m waiting for, Alex.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. Is my sore throat contagious?

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Clinical Case You are a senior resident working in the busy emergency department on an overnight shift. Hypertensive emergency is a clinical diagnosis characterized by a sudden and severe elevation in blood pressure accompanied by signs of acute end-organ dysfunction. All kids with hypertensive emergency need ICU-level care.

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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.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

So for those of you listening via YouTube, here’s the live version for those of you who are listening on the podcast, you’re going to get my prerecorded version with lots of loops and I’m doing consultation with my new music teacher who’s a music producer in LA. This is both a research and a clinical interest of yours.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Alex: And joining us via Zoom, we have Charlotta Lindvall, who is a palliative care physician researcher who studies the intersection of natural language processing and communication data at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, where she also works in clinical informatics. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Charlotta. Charlotta: Thank you. Eric: Yeah.

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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?

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

A reader may miss a cancerous lesion if the image quality is poor, resulting in a false negative diagnosis, which could delay treatment and result in an avoidable death. Conversely, a diagnosis could be a false positive, which can occur when an otherwise normal tissue is erroneously read as abnormal.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She is a member of the Clinical Genome Resource Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) Clinical Domain Working Group, where as a biocurator she assesses the pathogenicity of variants in IEM-associated genes to facilitate expedited genetic diagnosis for IEMs. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

My favorite line from Emily’s paper: “Geriatric assent has not been widely adopted in clinical care, but bioethicists should advocate for this, as adoption of partial-involvement strategies can prolong the period in which individuals are (appropriately) engaged in decisions about their health care.” This is a clinical intervention.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Instead, what if your surgeon told you that the operation she was discussing could help with only 4 things: live longer, feel better, prevent disability, or obtain a diagnosis? And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

And then I met a patient in clinic once who asked me a lot of really intelligent questions about medical cannabis, what it does. I’d been a nurse at the time, and I went back to do my clinicals in an oncology clinic locally. And I decided at that point to hang a shingle and start a clinic with a physician.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How we came about to select these articles or to have interest in this topic is really older adults are unique population that are at risk for both over diagnosis of infections as well as under diagnosis of infections. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

Alex 01:24 And Elise Carey, who’s a palliative care doc and geriatrician and associate professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. So the first thing, explain the diagnosis. I mean, how do you negotiate that with the oncologist who is the one who consulted you, by the way, Eric, who does that go to?

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And so there’s one study that used Medicare beneficiary data, and when they look at diagnoses for transgender men and women compared to cisgender men and women, we see around one in five have a diagnosis of dementia in the medical record for the transgender community compared to around, like, 1 in 7, 1 in 8 versus gender people.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

We talk about why it’s so hard with Abby Rosenberg (chief of PC at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Nick Purol (clinical social worker at DFCI and Boston Childrens), Daniel Eison (pediatric PC doc and co-host of PediPal). But when I have, I find that they’re often some of the hardest patients to care for. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Abby.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Eric 07:03 Yeah, it’s hard because you can also think about it, let’s say, because we see palliative heart failure clinics. So people like palliative cardiology clinics where honestly, heart failure management is a lot of symptom management. Eric 12:11 And we consult psychiatry. So it’s a lot of palliation.

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