Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

There is robust data regarding the importance of patient connection and engagement in the hospital and clinic setting. Community engagement allows physicians to broadly and collectively educate patients on important health topics, empowering them to make informed decisions about their health.

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Chronic Disease Management Community Education Chronic Disease 52

Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 26, 2024

A family doctor is often your main healthcare provider tasked with everything from routine check-ups to chronic disease management. Tip 1: Do Research and Obtain Referrals Start your search by asking friends, family, and colleagues for recommendations. Choose a clinic close to your home or workplace to make visits more convenient.

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The Physicians Foundation

AUGUST 15, 2024

Founder and CEO of Cherry Hill Free Clinic (CHFC), Chief Medical Officer at Camden Coalition and Medical Director for Community Health at Virtua Health, as the recipient of the Dr. Buz Cooper Award for Addressing Drivers of Health. “The Jubril Oyeyemi, M.D., president of The Physicians Foundation. Mirna Mohanraj, M.D. ,

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Primary Care Community Chronic Disease Management Education 40

Tiny Physician

JULY 12, 2021

The working hours will be over 12 hours per day in any clinical post-graduate course at any college, but it won’t affect your state of mind if the faculties and other staffs are cooperative. Casualty OP patient load decides the number of ward admission as the sick children often come at casualty and not at referral OP.

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Internal Medicine Management ER Referral 52

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

While primary care providers are trained to manage conditions like diabetes, they rely on endocrinologists to provide more specialized care. You might get referred to an endocrinologist if your condition is complex or difficult to manage. At PACT Endocrinology, a referral isn’t required.

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Board-Certified Primary Care Insurance Diabetes 52

Plum Health

MAY 22, 2023

DPC clinics provide members with: Personalized, preventive care Management of chronic conditions No co-pays or insurance billing Treatment of ailments and illnesses Same-day appointments and no wait times Unlimited appointment lengths 24/7 access to care Exams, labs, and testing Specialist referrals, as necessary And much more.

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Primary Care PCP PCP Insurance 52

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2025

Even if they don’t have the same condition as you, they can provide information about things like the doctor’s reputation or bedside manner. Read Patient Reviews Reading online reviews from other patients can help you learn whether a certain hormone doctor or clinic might be the right fit for you.

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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. And so MRI is going to give us more information depending on the scenario.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

In general, EKRA prohibits, knowingly and willfully, soliciting, receiving, paying or offering kickbacks in exchange for referring to, inducing a referral to, or using the services of a recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory. 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. §

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Lab Testing Referral Individual Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Here at UW Health, we call it our Swallow Service.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

In general, EKRA prohibits, knowingly and willfully, soliciting, receiving, paying or offering kickbacks in exchange for referring to, inducing a referral to, or using the services of a recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory. 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. §

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Lab Testing Individual Referral Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I’m sort of seeing them in clinic for consideration of palliative radiation, they have a lot going on. And sort of a few years ago, we would sometimes see referrals a bit later than we would have liked. We are Seeing referrals at an earlier time point, especially at a point that I feel that I can really help a patient.

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Find out on this weeks podcast where we invite Joseph Greer, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson to talk about their recent JAMA article on Telehealth vs In-Person Early Palliative Care for Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer – A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial. So no differences between the modalities.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

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. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Jessie: Thank you.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Based on this surge in evidence, the American Society of Clinical Oncologists recently updated their guidelines for care of older adults to state that all older adults receiving systemic therapy (including chemo, immuno, targeted, hormonal therapy) should receive geriatric assessment guided care. Mazie, welcome to GeriPal. William: Sure.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Is it that they’re clinically depressed or that they’re understandably sad at the situation that they’re in or specific issues? It’s high, it’s too high.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. 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.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. I mean, we work at a different part of the health system a lot of times, although we have acute care therapists who do the same thing, but the gap in information flow is similar.

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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. Formulate effective strategies for identifying, managing, and preventing inhalant misuse in pediatric patients. and curiosity.

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Complication Patient-Centered Management Patients 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge. Alex 04:07 A heart failure clinic playing in the background. People’s goals are often much more than, you know, perfect management or heart failure, even living as long as possible. He’s in Boston. Eric 14:10 Yeah.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. Eric: Let’s say I have a panel of older adults that I’m seeing, or a palliative care outpatient clinic. I can get you guys that information. I’m going to first turn to Emmy.

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IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

And so the importance of the picture and the epiphany that really came many years later, I published a paper in the Journal of Clinical Oncology called Dignity in the Eye of the Beholder. How do you do that in clinical practice, in a way that doesn’t take five hours of sitting down with somebody? Eric: So how do you do that?

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. Ruth: I do have to also say that it’s important to remember that feeding tube use and hospital transfers for people with advanced dementia has no demonstrated clinical benefit. It improves symptom management.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Why is this different from clinical communication skills? But before I became a nurse I had a long career at Procter & Gamble in brand management and I worked on the Covergirl and Max Factor business. Look at the way they talk to the public, referral like HIV prep. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Adherence to medical advice improves and unnecessary self-referrals to other doctors decrease. On average, twice as many patients have contact with GPs than with all specialists (in offices and/or outpatient clinics) combined. GPs improve chronic disease management, which prevents complications. Over time, more trust develops.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

There are clinics. If the community hospital isn’t able to provide a service like tertiary care, oncology care, they would get a referral to UCSF or wherever, just like anybody in the community. And the dad just totally lost control, major anger management issues. And in that one fell swoop, they lost their mom.

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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

I was part of a writing group that wrote clinical guidelines for VSET for voluntarily stopping eating and drinking. And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? Who do you give informed consent to? Thaddeus 39:58 That’s how she decided to manage it.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 87

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Eric 07:31 A clinical perspective, why is it important to test this stepped care model versus implementing more? And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. Jennifer 07:31 From.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. Eric: And Susan?

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. Eric 08:37 And that’s because you randomized clinics, you didn’t randomize patients interventions. We did it by the clinic level. And so everyone who’s in that clinic was.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

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.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? And that kind of prognostic information can be just as valuable, really, to patients and their families planning as time-based information. Get the hospice referral. Like, should we be doing advance care planning? Should we throw it out?

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And the thought of a huge number of our patients who had really come to rely on being able to do their visits from home or from a place that was close to home and getting medications that they’ve really come to rely on for symptom management was just really kind of terrifying for us and for them.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73

PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

So what’s the evaluation and management for simple febrile seizures? How do we evaluate and manage them? Well, they say that LP should be performed when there are meningeal signs or symptoms or other clinical features that suggest possible meningitis or intracranial infection. There’s a tenfold increase.

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