Plum Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It’s where you turn for regular check-ups, advice on staying healthy, and help with managing any chronic illnesses like diabetes or hypertension. While urgent care clinics are great for immediate, non-life-threatening issues like a sprained ankle or flu symptoms, they don’t provide the long-term, personalized care that primary care does.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 21, 2025

Screening was done using predefined criteria, and 2 researchers independently extracted the data. Lower education levels were linked to higher risk (OR = 0.82, P = 0.0001), along with smoking (OR = 1.44, P = 0.003), hypertension (OR = 2.25, P < 0.001), and cardiovascular disease (CVD) (OR = 2.61, P < 0.001).

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. So, we are not screening for substance use in cancer care, so we don’t get good estimates among people with cancer, which is really how we would prefer to ask the question. Katie: Yeah.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Michigan residents have been buzzing about a primary care clinic that’s setting a new standard for healthcare across the state. Whether you’re in Detroit , Corunna , Lansing , Royal Oak , or Van Buren , this clinic is offering comprehensive care that puts patient well-being first. What Makes This Medical Clinic Different?

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Vascular Physician

MARCH 29, 2022

While not as common as aortic artery aneurysms (AAA), the risk of mortality from PAAs necessitate a familiarity with the correlating clinical signs and symptoms. Consequently, screening for additional aneurysms upon diagnosis is highly recommended. Patient Presentation: The onset for PAA is typically insidious and asymptomatic.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

First, we talk with Christine, a researcher and geriatrician from the University of North Carolina, who recently published a JAGS article titled Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections by nursing home clinicians versus a clinical guideline. So I actually got started in cancer screening also, thanks to some mutual colleagues.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

I, for example, had one patient, I remember during my fellowship, I was in geriatrics clinic and had a very well read patient who came in and was reading a New York Times article, I think in the well section at one point. Alex 16:45 That really rings true with my clinical experience. And I know I do primarily inpatient work.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. This was 2018 in AGS Orlando, and they did a song about when to stop screening for cancer for colon cancer. How to talk to patients about screening colonoscopies. Ken 10:29 Yes.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. Alex 19:12 And what’s the clinical takeaway from that?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary There is a growing push to change how we define Alzheimer’s disease from what was historically a clinically defined syndrome to a newer biological definition based on the presence of positive amyloid biomarkers. Jason: You could have hypertension and have no signs and symptoms. Alex: That’s right.

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