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Q&A: Prioritizing Early Intervention in Pediatric Obesity

Physician's Weekly

The 2023 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Clinical Practice Guidelines has a section that discusses different approaches (eg, virtual visits, including allied providers, thinking about community programs, etc.). We also need to pick up on when a child is gaining weight rapidly or crossing percentiles so we can intervene earlier.

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Why Identifying and Managing Giant Cell Arteritis as an Emergency Is Crucial

Physician's Weekly

And I’m here today to talk about giant cell arteritis in clinical practice. It depends upon where you are practicing and what resources are available to you. Hello everyone. I’m Paras Karmacharya. Hello, it’s great to be with you. It involves large vessels including those perfusing, the head and neck.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

In our third segment, we explore Amy Linskys study that examined the effect of patient-directed educational materials on clinician deprescribing of potentially low-benefit or high-risk medications, such as proton pump inhibitors, high-dose gabapentin, or risky diabetes medications. Alex 00:07 We have a full house to talk about deprescribing.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? Lastly, I also just want to give a shout out to the last article above which also includes this lovely checklist of methods to address hearing loss in clinical encounters. I’m guessing not.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

On our last podcast about urinary incontinence the song request was, “Let it go.” This time around several suggestions were raised. Eric suggested, “Even Flow,” by Pearl Jam. Someone else suggested, “Under Pressure,” but we’ve done it already. We settled on, “Oops…I did it again,” by Britney Spears. I suggested even flow. That’s a good one.

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Pearls profiles: Get to know Neil Baum, MD

Physician's Practice

Today we're introducing Neil Baum, MD, Professor of Clinical Urology at Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the author of Marketing Your Clinical Practice-Ethically, Effectively, and Economicall y, which is in its 4th edition, has sold over 175,000 copies and has been translated into Spanish.

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Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

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.