Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

I’m the Vice Chairman of Rheumatology at the Cleveland Clinic and the co-director of the Center for Vasculitis Care and Research. And I’m here today to talk about giant cell arteritis in clinical practice. We don’t want to overtreat GCA, but again, under diagnosing it has life altering consequences.

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Management Diagnosis Patient-Centered Patients 59

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.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 121

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Among patients who have never smoked—“never-smokers”—those with lung cancer (LC) are more likely to have been diagnosed with an inflammatory disease, according to a study published in Nature Communications. Mining Data The researchers mined electronic medical record data from the United Kingdom’s Clinical Practice Research Datalink.

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Diagnose Screening Clinical Practice Electronics 105

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

If somebody has cancer and they’re recently diagnosed, somebody has cancer and they’re undergoing active treatment, somebody has cancer and they’re in early remission, now they’re a year or two years, three years, four years out and they still have pain. Jessie: Yes. Why would that be? And then, looking at- Eric: Wow.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? But these tests were never designed to diagnose. Does a good history matter anymore?

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

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.

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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. I’m not.

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IT Clinic Illness Hypertension 117