Medical Xpress

JANUARY 24, 2023

A dermatology program first developed by the University of Missouri in 2015 can bring life-saving diagnoses of skin conditions to communities without adequate dermatologic care.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 1, 2025

million primary care visits annually and are the fifth most common reason for emergency department visits” in the United States. An article on acute migraine headaches in the April 2025 issue of American Family Physician reviewed current treatment strategies for acute migraine headaches, which “account for … 3.6

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

No other tasks were associated with lifetime heavy use, recent use, or dependence diagnosis. We need to better understand the guardrails around safe cannabis use and educate the healthcare community and patients. The healthcare community cannot take an “all bad or all good” view of cannabis. The cohort (mean age, 28.7

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Who do we have with us today?

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context As the population ages, access and continuity of primary care with the family physician are crucial for managing the complex health needs of persons with dementia. However, there is still a gap in understanding who has access to primary care and who maintains continuity of care. 60.8%, 60.2%, and 58.8%

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical. Again, otherwise the diagnosis is based on history and physical examination.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As you know, our population is aging at a rapid speed and older, adult older persons is no longer cared for only by a geriatrician or a primary care physician. There’s a team now with them behind them making sure that they stay safe and held in our communities. Lona: Absolutely. Eric: Can I touch on the last study?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Participants were recruited via electronic healthcare records, community tabling events, and social media efforts. Our Community Advisory Board (CAB) guided this work. Cancer Screening: Challenges with making appointments and getting PAP Smears due to time, employment, transportation, and lack of established primary care provider.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. Great to be back.

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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. George, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. George 00:28 Hi, guys. Nice to be on. Alison and I go way back. Alison 29:08 Yes.

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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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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Usually, patients go to their primary care physician for advice or try to ask in the pharmacy on the corner what the smiling pharmacists recommend. Searchable by symptoms, signs, and patient factors, it represents the fastest path to a customised differential diagnosis. It’s a jackpot software for eczema troubles.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Knowing that the community is really underrepresented in sort of our knowledge, what we do, how we provide care that’s truly inclusive and welcoming. And I often use transgender because that’s the language that is more affirming broadly for the community. It was personal to me, but also right. Johnson, actually.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

But then once it was open, started seeing a lot of other populations: not just our own hospital population, but a lot more just community members calling with concerns about driving. And the primary care provider had assumed he was no longer driving, I think. “Do you guys do this?” Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

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). We also touch briefly on topics discussed in prior podcasts such as loneliness and federal responses to the pandemic in relation to long-term care. Lona: Absolutely.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

And then from that, through community activists, ACT UP, legislators who felt that there needed to be something done, doctors within CDCR who cared passionately about the HIV population and others, all came together and we were able to eventually get funding for this 17-bed inpatient hospice. Only about 5% of the population is female.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. COVID-19 diagnosis of self Yes 24 (44.4) 150 (54.3) 126 (45.7)

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

What happened is we’re in the serious illness care business and so we were busy rolling out our serious illness conversations at Mass General and we were getting resistance, which we expected from oncology and primary care, but then we started getting resistance from the geriatricians. Brad: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

And then second, I was someone who was a Parrot Head for years and years and it was just amazing how the community came together. That was really the theme song of how the community came together. At what point were you engaged with the patients either as a geriatrician, primary care, or a palliative care or hospice?

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. We’re available, palliative care. Joel: Yeah.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe individual characteristics and healthcare use in older adults with SMI across home care services (HCS) profiles before and after the first dementia diagnosis. Group 2 was mainly diagnosed in primary care, while Group 3 included more men with better COC and more diagnoses in primary care.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

So it felt like it was being part of this huge kind of change in the whole environment and the whole experience of that community. Is that what you’re seeing as a palliative care provider now or. Is a new diagnosis of HIV. If they did, it was before AIDS was a diagnosis. Meredith 17:07 Yes.

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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. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Sydney 00:41 Thank you.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

It was in the mid-nineties, and about half of the patients that we cared for in the inpatient service were homeless. We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. We would admit them to the hospital. It felt like a moral injury.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

He has no record in the scientific community of doing valid work,” said Dr. Walter Orenstein , a former CDC immunization director. Scientists say the rise may owe to several factors, including better diagnosis, older parents and genetics, The Wall Street Journal said. It added that “HHS will follow the science — wherever it leads.”

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. And the point of that is that so many people, in my experience, and I’m sure it’s the same initial diagnosis of cancer, that’s the last thing that I want to talk about. So most of us in primary care, it’s probably even worse.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. We have home-based primary care.

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