Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

Ihuoma Eneli, MD, MS, discusses early intervention in childhood obesity to reduce long‑term risk and supporting families with tailored, accessible care. Past evidence suggests StEP is highly effective for reducing childhood obesity , though the benefits are better sustained when families attend most or all StEP sessions.

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Family Families Preventative Care Preventive Care 52

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? And he liked some of what I was doing, which was really on diabetes and hearing loss. I wonder if you could engage their family in the goals of care discussion.” I’m guessing not.

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Why would CBT work for neuropathic pain and diabetes differently than it would work for neuropathic pain and cancer? Have you had a family history of substance use disorder? My feeling working in this field, and I think from what we know, they’re probably more similar than different. Why would that be?

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

And, you know, I really leaned in from my perspective as a primary care geriatrician to hearing from what my patients and their family caregivers are asking me for and asking me about, and they’re asking me about how they can prepare. And that family was not necessarily a trusted network. And I don’t expect them to be.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

And the truth is we don’t want, I don’t want any patient or family to perceive that when Brera goes to see me, there’s a second interest, a second gain. How should I define cachexia and anorexia when I’m talking to fellow students or thinking about it in my own clinical practice? There’s something.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 133

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. Well, even for somebody like you, who’s pretty familiar with the instruments, it might cause distress for the patient, maybe their family. And I gotta manage their blood pressure and their diabetes meds.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Heather: I’m requesting the song Don’t You Forget About Me, which is one of the things that I think matters most to patients and families living with Alzheimer’s disease. Diabetes, you see the same thing. You have pre-diabetes now. Eric: Wonderful. laughter] Heather: Good point. Jason: Oh, well.

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