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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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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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? How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Does a good history matter anymore?

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

If you look in the diagnostical statistical manual, right, the sort of handbook for diagnoses, most of the diagnostic criteria are in some important ways kind of arbitrary, right? The question I would ask is, how helpful is that in our clinical practice? And in this way, we start to collect their own language.

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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. And then, looking at- Eric: Wow. So, one out of 10?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

They get some training in their master’s program on research and they get some training certainly on writing papers, but then you get into clinical practice and it’s like a language. What does this diagnosis mean to you? And then my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and she was treated there. It’s good.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Amber Barnato, who’s a palliative care physician and health service researcher, and she’s director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. So with actors and a clinical scenario where you hold everything else standard. Amber: Thank you guys.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. We’ve all been taught through fellowship or through clinical practice about how to assess pain. You can listen to our prior podcasts on substance use disorder here , here , here , and here. You know the case.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Not my normal clinical practice. And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. I wish they were just a diagnosis. I recently had an angry patient and I had the opposite enactment. I was so concerned about wanting this guy to like me that I let our visits run over a bunch. I started bending over backwards.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

If you are interested in learning more about the draft guidelines and the response from AGS to these guidelines, check out the following links: Revised Criteria for Diagnosis and Staging of Alzheimer’s Disease: Alzheimer’s Association Workgroup AGS’s response to the revised criteria Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. So we sent that to everyone 65 and older with upcoming visits, though we were tracking on our side the people who had diagnoses and things. Before the primary care visit.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. And the point of that is that so many people, in my experience, and I’m sure it’s the same initial diagnosis of cancer, that’s the last thing that I want to talk about. And I said, sure. And I had that mortified look on my face of God.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Camargo, Clinical Trial: Comparative Effectiveness of Cephalexin Plus Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Versus Cephalexin Alone for Treatment of Uncomplicated Cellulitis: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 56, Issue 12, 15 June 2013, Pages 1754–1762, [link] Liu C, Bayer A, Cosgrove SE, et al.

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