Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

James Stevermer and Kenneth Fink wrote in an AFP editorial : Few men diagnosed with and treated for prostate cancer will experience a mortality benefit, and an estimated 20% to 50% of those treated will never become symptomatic, even without treatment. times more likely to develop urinary or sexual complications, 2.78

Routine Screenings 52

Routine Screenings Screening Complication Diagnose 52

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Alex 00:30 And we’re delighted to welcome Alison Huang, who’s a primary care doc and researcher and professor of medicine, urology, and epi-biostats at UCSF in the division of General Internal Medicine. It’s under recognized, under diagnosed, under treated, under discussed, understudied as a result.

IT 121

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 121

GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

The beautiful thing about it, it’s more than just having a career development award; it’s a community of aging researchers. One of the highlights really is the networking and the community that it fosters and highlighted, in some ways, by the meeting, which of course you often lead the sing along at. Should do medicine?”

Physicals 86

Physicals IT Hypertension Education 86

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

James Martínez, family medicine physician at Community Health Partners, explains: “Preventive care represents one of the most powerful tools we have in medicine. Identifying health concerns before symptoms appear gives us tremendous advantages in treatment success and minimizing long-term complications.

Preventive Care 100

Preventive Care Preventative Care Appointment Screening 100

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. The intervention itself is very straightforward.

Primary Care 80

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 80

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old.

Families 108

Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108