Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

For individuals with diabetes, every day requires vigilance. On top of that, diabetes is often associated with mental health challenges such as anxiety, stress, and depression, particularly in dealing with the long-term nature of the disease and the fear of complications.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

Our board-certified physicians and nurse practitioners develop individualized prevention plans that address your specific health needs and concerns. Our Mesa clinic offers same-week appointments for preventive services, making it convenient for busy families to prioritize their health.

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Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

JANUARY 24, 2025

There is endless contradictory nutrition advice from strongly opinionate individuals out there (anyone take a deep-dive into the evidence of coconut oil – a plant based oil with lots of saturated fat?), Tonya Check out my Individual Physician Coaching Course on Enjoying Life and Thriving in your Career here.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Large language models will soon find their way in to everyday clinical settings , simply because the global shortage of healthcare personnel is becoming dire and AI will lend a hand with tasks that do not require skilled medical professionals. This potential is very important because such a breakthrough won’t come about in any other way.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results: From 828 surveys, FMPs in restrictive states (35% of whom practice at state-fund institutions) reported significantly poorer clinic inclusivity for LGBTQ+ and TGD patients, reduction to hormone replacement therapies, and fewer education/training opportunities. Study Design and Analysis: Cross-sectional survey.

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Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Managing Type 2 diabetes requires more than just medication—it demands a long-term partnership with a skilled healthcare provider who understands your individual needs. Choosing the right diabetes doctor can make a major difference in how effectively your condition is managed, your quality of life, and your long-term health outcomes.

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Pamela Wible MD

MAY 21, 2025

Whether you’re launching your dream clinic, writing your first book, or exploring shamanic healing or magic mushrooms, these retreats are handcrafted to help you heal, grow, and thrive. Group retreats host 4 to 7 physicians, combining facilitated individual coaching and inspiring group activities.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In fact, some Emergency Departments note that as many as one tenth of their patient volume is mental health. They carry existing diagnoses and are followed by outpatient mental health providers. Laboratory evaluation should be based on individual patient history and exam. Health Aff (Millwood).

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Vida Family Medicine

APRIL 4, 2023

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. Food is an important part of life- for our physical health, mental health, and our social well being and enjoyment of life.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Sophie Neuner, proud member of the Karuk Tribe, and a Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health. Together, these two phenomenal guests help us understand the structural and individual challenges of Indigenous peoples in academic medicine, public health, and beyond. November 23, 2021. TRANSCRIPT

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

True we have a fulltime nanny, but we still both work full-time clinically and still wish to have a steady hand in our children’s lives. Second, we have had some unexpected transitions at my job, and this has left me to cover extra clinical obligations with some consistency. This may be a bold statement, but I believe it to be true.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

AUGUST 25, 2020

Pearls Defining Structural Racism Structural racism is a term that acknowledges that racism is perpetuated beyond individual interactions and interpersonal racism, but is present in the systems and policies that govern our everyday lives. Essien, MD, MPH Hosts: Dereck Paul, MS, Utibe R. Stolen Breaths. N Engl J Med 2020; 383:197-199.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

During that time, psychologist Herbert Freudenberger volunteered at a New York City free clinic treating addiction. He overheard the term and used it to describe himself and clinic staff in a 1974 article on staff burnout detailing long-term physical and psychological job stress. Let’s not waver on the truth.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Between 2007 – 2019, Black individuals experienced a higher death rate for opioid overdose deaths than any other racial or ethnic group. These narratives have vilified individuals who would benefit from comprehensive, person-centered substance use treatment, rather than incarceration and other adverse harms.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 14: Race, Place, and Health: Clinician and Community Perspectives Show Notes by Alec Calac February 15th, 2022 Summary: This episode highlights how racism manifests in the built environment, and how community and individual-level efforts can mitigate these inequities. Be curious.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

42:00 Abolitionist reimaginings of Health 55:05 Democratizing Narrative Medicine 1:03:05 Closing Remarks and Clinical Pearls Speaker biographies (Abbreviated) Zahra Khan is an educator and editor whose work emerges at the intersection of narrative, healing and disability justice, and liberation pedagogy.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

The goal is to support clinical trials and bring in another $50 million in private investment to help ibogaine win approval from the U.S. Other states like Oregon and Colorado have already launched legal clinics using psilocybin, the compound found in mushrooms, The Times reported. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Content Warning: This episode contains themes of violence, trauma-induced mental health concerns, and brief mentions of suicide. Highlight how structural racism against Asian-Americans surfaces in clinical settings, and describe means of counteracting such structures. Insufficient language services (i.e.,

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Noelle Marie 01:24 I think it really speaks a lot to my own personal journey and I’m pretty sure a lot of trans and gender diverse individuals also resonate with and it really speaks about our transition, celebrating our authentic selves, how society views us and how we view ourselves when we stand in front of a mirror.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

Push back against individual narratives that blame individuals for systemic injustice. Push back against discussions that homelessness is caused by substance use or mental health problems. Episode 15: Housing is Health: Racism and Homelessness – Clinician and Community Perspectives.” April 5, 2022.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

David: Similarly informed by my clinical experience, really, actually, beginning in residency when I took care of a lot of sick folks in the hospital, particularly those with cancer and heart and lung diseases like these. And not just statistically significant, but clinically meaningful. Eric: How about you, David? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Who do we have with us today? Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

FDA is considering approval, shifting away from Schedule I restrictions, paving the way for use in clinical practice. It’s broader than just psychedelic assisted psychotherapy because there’s non-psychotherapists often involved, and it’s different from what we do in conventional mental health. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. Eric 00:51 And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Can you come and be in our clinic once a week? It used to also be a social worker and myself who would actually go to clinic and spend some time up there. And so I was driven by the fact that I needed more information, and so it sort of became my clinical focus as well as I dabble in the research.

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The proximity to campus health clinics may also afford college students greater accessibility to healthcare providers for prescription medications such as stimulants which could end up being misused. Besides the risks to an individual, there are also population-level harms from normalizing certain harmful behaviors (e.g.,

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

This is both a research and a clinical interest of yours. But that just didn’t really resonate with what I saw clinically which was that there was lots of suffering both in the patient, their family and on the clinical team and just felt it was really this space where I didn’t have a lot of evidence to guide me.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? How can public health and policy experts address these needs, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic which turned our social lives upside down?

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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. Some of them are really deeply individual experiences.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Well dive into the clinical presentations, including acute and chronic symptoms, the dangers of sudden sniffing death, and the specific risks associated with nitrites, hydrocarbons, and nitrous oxide. You can either get one little individual canister of nitrous, or a big canister which costs about 120 to 120.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Alex: We’re delighted to welcome Leonie Herx, who’s a palliative care physician and clinical professor at the University of Calgary. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Sonu Gaind, who is a Chief of psychiatry and professor at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center at the University of Toronto. Bill: Thank you.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Chaplains can do an assessment of the spirituality of the individual and then they use interventions that are part of their discipline and those interventions are tailored to the individual’s spiritual and religious needs of the person that they’re caring for. They followed them during the course of their hospital stay.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Eric: So in some ways, this is kind of like the VA, where you don’t have to follow Medicare guidelines, but you can actually actively do concurrent care for these individuals. We have about 450 inpatient mental health beds. There are clinics. We also look at their mental health. Michele: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

So there’s this, what is suffering to the individual, and is there some threshold that we could say, “This is real suffering,” or “This is the suffering we talk about in geriatrics or palliative care”? .” With the mental health, we pulled out the medical model. That’s beautiful, Naomi.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Because, for example, we get a lot of pieces on wellness and mental health. They’re limited because, on the individual level, when you get down to it, the complexities of these stories and the caring involved may lead to these complex relationships, understanding what the goals are, as you had done with your mom.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so we worked closely with a community advisory group who, through focus groups, told us how it was that black and white individuals with serious illness had wanted to be treated. The black individuals wanted to have a separate one from the white individuals. So their caregivers did focus groups. Our consultation.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. Today we find inspiration for my kids: there are adults who care deeply about this issue, particularly for older adults who are much more vulnerable to health effects of climate change. And then access to those.

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