ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

Christine Twining, MD, Chair, ABIM Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board The Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on April 1, 2025. The following is a summary of the spring meeting.

Diabetes 52

Diabetes Board-Certified Telehealth Government 52

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Alex 13:24 Eric is pushing on the like, the clinical, practical stuff. I remember as a geriatric fellow many years ago, we actually diagnosed a patient who had polyuria who ultimately, you know, turned out of diabetes insipidus because when you looked at how much they were avoiding, they were just avoiding way too much.

IT 121

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 121

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Mining Data The researchers mined electronic medical record data from the United Kingdom’s Clinical Practice Research Datalink. “Furthermore, several of the associations persisted for (more than) 10 years, hinting at the importance of long-term inflammation in the development of LCINS.”

Diagnose 105

Diagnose Screening Clinical Practice Electronics 105

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Why would CBT work for neuropathic pain and diabetes differently than it would work for neuropathic pain and cancer? My feeling working in this field, and I think from what we know, they’re probably more similar than different. Why would that be? What would the biologic mechanism be that would make that different?

Illness 137

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

And I gotta manage their blood pressure and their diabetes meds. Well, even for somebody like you, who’s pretty familiar with the instruments, it might cause distress for the patient, maybe their family. There’s got to be an easier way. And I have to ask them about all these other things like seat belt use. Nate 14:25 Oh.

Primary Care 97

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Sarah: And I think this is something I’ve taken into my clinical practice of we should be thinking about planning more broadly, really. And I know a lot of our social work colleagues and our nurses, I think at least in our practice, do a lot more of that. And I don’t expect them to be.

Community 96

Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 96

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. It can be quite problematic in people with diabetes and so on. Cachexia is one of those that kind of always confuses me.

Illness 134

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

But there’s some level of glycosylated hemoglobin which very neatly correlates with abnormal glucose tolerance, which is diabetes, or is amyloid like mitotic figures spreading beyond the basement membrane? Diabetes, you see the same thing. You have pre-diabetes now. If we didn’t, we’d be dead. Low testosterone.

IT 117

IT Clinic Illness Hypertension 117