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What Are the Most Common Preventive Services? A Complete Guide

Mesa Family Physician

For residents of Mesa and the surrounding East Valley communities, staying current with recommended preventive care can lead to better health outcomes and reduced healthcare costs. Our female practitioners understand the unique health needs of women in our community.

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. 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. Goldilocks zone).

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health. Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. “Hello. .

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. So you mentioned the burden of chronic multimorbidity and sort of flogging through the diabetes and the hypertension. Tim 43:15 I’m an educator at heart. Alex 01:57 Joe, which city are you joining from? Joe 01:59 Ann Arbor.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

Wible held town hall meetings and she invited citizens in her community to design their own ideal clinic. Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide. Well, we had an inadequate medical education. Thank you for joining us Dr. Wible. To be real. It’s not your fault.

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