Physician's Weekly

JUNE 28, 2025

Testing for the HLA-B27 allele showed widespread use across specialties and revealed missed opportunities for rheumatology referrals in positive cases. Referral to rheumatology occurred more often in patients with positive HLA-B27 (53%) compared to HLA-B27–negative (32%) ( P = 0.002).

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Referral Clinical Practice Utilities Diagnose 52

GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS. Some of our healthcare systems are hard, and challenging, and I think that it’s time that we have a change. Eric: Lovely. Alex: Yeah.

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IT Hospital Patient-Centered Individual 124

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Eric 00:42 So on this podcast, we’re gonna be talking about what every healthcare provider should know about radiation oncology. And sort of a few years ago, we would sometimes see referrals a bit later than we would have liked. But in my practice it’s usually from another oncologist, typically a medical oncologist.

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Since 2013, ABIM Specialty Boards have been required to include at least one physician member primarily engaged in community practice, defined broadly in applications as “clinical practice in a non-university, community setting.” There was agreement on a broad need for safe, structured, team-based care.

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Board-Certified Board-Certified Physicians Government Community 40

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Jessie: Exactly. Katie: Yeah.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So I’m in a specialty clinic, so I’m in this interdisciplinary memory assessment clinic. So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. I mean, I don’t want to speak to your healthcare system and what’s happened, but that to me seems inappropriate. Nate 19:49 Yeah.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Just an extraordinary cast of individuals who were really so incredibly inspiring. And then the final category, the third category is what we called the dignity conserving repertoire, which really has to do with kind of the spiritual, and psychological landscape and makeup of that individual. I mean, I was very much a clinician.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98