PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

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. Have you had a family history of substance use disorder?

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

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? So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care.

Primary Care 95

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. But once I got into medicine, I found myself attracted to the field of psychiatry.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. I’m hearing family and caregivers. So that’s why I selected the song.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And so clearly it matters how you bring up the topic, who brings up the topic, and probably the timing when this comes up for patients and families, just like we think about conversations about illness and prognostic understanding, I wish there was a good prevalent state data on how big this is of a problem in serious illness at large.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130