PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

It’s under recognized, under diagnosed, under treated, under discussed, understudied as a result. Alex 13:24 Eric is pushing on the like, the clinical, practical stuff. But that combination is actually quite common, and it’s quite challenging to diagnose and manage, at least in the traditional sense.

IT 120

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 120

GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Eric: And swallowing is complicated, right? Nicole: I was just going to add that I think a helpful analogy for me has been to think about our clinical assessment, sort of like if a physical therapist just stood at the door with their ear up to the door to listen if a patient fell, and then made a recommendation plan for exercise.

IT 124

IT Patient-Centered Hospital Individual 124

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months. It can’t be diagnosed and adios.

Screening 119

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

But often what we’re talking about is this experience that we can describe physically inside of our body, the sensation that we’re having as we’re anticipating that things may go wrong or badly in some kind of way. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body.

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

How should I define cachexia and anorexia when I’m talking to fellow students or thinking about it in my own clinical practice? I think the very simple, practical thing is involuntary weight loss. We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia. I mean, come on.

Illness 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. How do you do that in clinical practice, in a way that doesn’t take five hours of sitting down with somebody? We examine, we diagnose, we fix. That the wish to… Eric: Complicated. Harvey: Complicated.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98