Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Patients with ulcerative colitis report better quality of life after IPAA, but bowel symptoms like urgency and incontinence continue to have a negative impact. They asked the patients with various pouch-related conditions about their post-IPAA experiences and symptoms. Barnes, MD, MPH tells Physician’s Weekly ( PW ).

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Active surveillance is a management strategy that is intended to limit overtreatment of localized prostate cancer by monitoring patients with periodic PSA measurements and prostate biopsies to delay or avoid curative therapy (radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy) and its adverse effects. and 6.1%, respectively). in 2000 to 59.8%

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 19, 2025

Most patients who choose colonoscopy as a screening test for colorectal cancer are referred from primary care to a gastroenterologist or other specialist who performs endoscopy. But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

AUGUST 25, 2019

A CXR showed a left upper lobe consolidation, and he was treated with antibiotics for presumed community-acquired pneumonia. However, the patient continued to be symptomatic and he returned for further evaluation. Let’s review the case: A 70-year-old man with COPD presented with subacute pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

First, to meet protein needs, patients can be counseled to include 30 grams of high-quality protein sources at each meal. What practical strategies would you recommend for implementing resistance training in community or home-based settings? For older adults, the YMCA’s Silver Sneakers Program is a fantastic community resource.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Study Discussion Brooke Worster, MD , a clinician not involved in the study, reviewed the findings with Physician’s Weekly ( PW ) and highlighted strategies for physicians to engage young adult patients in constructive discussions about cannabis use. The healthcare community cannot take an “all bad or all good” view of cannabis.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

In this episode we dive into the resurgence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae an atypical bacterial cause of community-acquired pneumonia thats making waves in pediatric emergency medicine. Mycoplasma pneumoniae as a Cause of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Children. Plus, well discuss whether M. Plus, well discuss whether M. Epub 2024 Aug 3.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 14, 2020

Had the ED not ordered a chest CT, would I have tested this patient for COVID-19? The patient I saw with atrial fibrillation and RVR likely wouldn’t even have merited testing in early March, yet he clearly had the disease in mid April. Sure, I don’t really think this patient has COVID-19, but what if I’m wrong?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Likelihood ratios (LRs), which help us determine how a test changes the probability of a disease, are defined as: For example, say 60% of patients with aortic stenosis have a systolic ejection murmur best heard over the aortic valve area, and only 10% of patients without aortic stenosis have that same murmur.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By Paul Amendola, Executive Director, VecnaCares Reference: Bartlett L , Avery L , Ponnappan P , et al, Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000845.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

When I’m on service these days there is inevitably a moment when a resident says “Patient so-and-so is on X” – and I have absolutely no idea what X is. Alex: And we are delighted to welcome Rasheeda Hall, who is a physician scientist in the division of nephrology at Duke University School of Medicine, and sees patients at the Durham VA.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes. Patients received brochures detailing the risks of gabapentinoids, nonpharmacologic alternatives, and a proposed deprescribing regimen (see here for the brochure ). in the usual care group.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid). Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. Step four is adjusting it for your patient. How do you do that?

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CDOCS

APRIL 7, 2021

As an endodontic specialist, patients have higher expectations when visiting my practice, so I feel the need to go above and beyond to provide quality treatment. This will continue to build our reputation as local experts to assist our referring dentist in a team approach in providing the highest quality of care to our community.</span></p>

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

At that point, he was referred to pulmonology who started the patient on albuterol, manual chest physiotherapy, and a steroid inhaler with a plan for a fourth chest x-ray four weeks later. On arrival, the patient was febrile to 38.3C. Bronchopulmonary sequestration Our patient was diagnosed with bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS).

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients. We talk about diagnosis, et cetera, but it’s almost more of a community conversation. I think this is where there are two parallel pathways here that are implied in your question.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

This simple challenge was focused on putting ourselves in the shoes of our patients with dysphagia who are prescribed thickened liquids. And I think that we’re at this kind of crossroads right now in dysphagia, and dysphagia management where our patients are suffering. We revisit it, and make things better for our patients.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Which patients are eligible to go to an ACE unit? So I picked the Ed Sheeran song, The A Team, because it reminds me of our ACE team that goes around the hospital and cares for our older patients. And a light bulb just went off in my head, like, yes, this makes sense as a model for how we should care for more complex older patients.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 20, 2024

While ECPR shows promise in improving survival rates, particularly in pediatric patients with conditions like congenital heart disease, it is resource-intensive and carries significant risks. So first, the patient has ongoing, high quality CPR. If the patient’s heart function recovers, they’re gradually weaned off of ECMO.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

I witness firsthand the joy of well-child visits, the challenges and resilience of patients struggling to control their diabetes, and the Medicare annual wellness visit, all of which represent the collective effort to safeguard individual and community well-being. Outbreaks become more likely, and disease spreads more easily.

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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. Gastroesophageal reflux disease is when the patients have severe symptoms that persist and cause long term issues.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

During this episode, we gained insight from special guests Dr. Margot Kushel and Mr. Bobby Watts about what brought them into their fields, how their work reaches the most marginalized, and what can be done at the community and structural level to address homelessness. Know your community resources. Know your community resources.

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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. I agree with you.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. For Mesa residents dealing with these ongoing health challenges, regular visits to Mesa Family Physicians ensure that your condition remains well-controlled and complications are minimized.

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

As physicians, we know that access to these evidence-based tools to prevent severe illness, disability, and death, are essential to the care of our patients and our shared goal to improve the health of all Americans. Millions of Americans continue to live with complications of this disease and long COVID.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

The Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to cover a wide range of preventive services without patient cost-sharing. Dr. James Martínez, family medicine physician at Community Health Partners, explains: “Preventive care represents one of the most powerful tools we have in medicine.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Patients may feel like falls are just part of normal aging. If you want to do a deeper dive into some of the articles we discuss, take a look at the following: An awesome JAMA review by Sarah on fall risk assessment and prevention in community-dwelling adults. I think both the patients feel that. It’s one out of two.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. Word of mouth spread rapidly.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Identify realistic solutions to drug policy reform that promote health equity among marginalized communities living in the United States. Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Early data on efficacy in patients with anxiety and demoralization are promising. Two of our guests today, Stacy Fischer and Brian Anderson, are involved in large multicenter trials of psychedelics for patients with advanced cancer (Fischer) or life-limiting illness (Anderson). Research is exploding. You’ve been trained?

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Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 28, 2024

As a primary care physician, I am asked about these medications at least once a day, either by a patient, a colleague, a family member, friend, or acquaintance. As most of you know, I follow a Health at Every Size® approach to the care of my patients. Sometimes, for some patients, the GLP-1 receptor agonists may be the best choice.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. Your research is a lot in this patient population, right? In their communities? It used to be a much more complicated model. Big randomized control study that came out. Important implications.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And, who within ASPE guides aging policy and connects policy to every day health challenges experienced by patients and clinicians? How HHS and ASPE solicit input from clinicians, community leaders, and older adults and how much it impacts policy decisions (spoiler alert: this involvement is CRUCIAL). Sonali: Thank you for having me.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, and LJ Van Scoy argue that diverse communities are asking for ACP. Sarah Nouri gives an example from her work in the LGBTQ+ community of a trans woman who was buried as a man because existing laws/rules did not protect her wishes. Complicated grief? Did the caregiver feel heard and understood?

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