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Forecasting and adapting to the family medicine workforce shortage

The Health Policy Exchange

In the mid-1990s, the American Medical Association confidently predicted that the penetration of managed care would lead to a large "physician surplus" and convinced Congress to cap the number of graduate medical education (GME) positions subsidized by the Medicare program. Two decades later, there is a widespread consensus that the U.S.

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Personalized Diabetes Treatment Plans: How Connecticut Specialists Approach Care

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

Have a Diabetes Consultation Your first visit with a diabetes specialist may involve a physical exam. Learn Your Diabetes Treatment Goals The diabetes specialist will set treatment goals for your diabetes, based on what they learned about you during your consultation. Here’s what that looks like, step by step.

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

Distributing intake throughout the day has been shown to enhance muscle synthesis, and targeting 90 g/day provides 1.2 The second piece is getting folks to be successful at restricting their calories, which works well when nutrition education and behavioral counseling strategies are combined—and even better when provided in a group setting.

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Updates in ID and Nephrology: Lona Mody, Rasheeda Hall, Devika Nair, Sonali Advani

GeriPal

And they should be forced by doing research, followed by translating research into practice and continued education of a wide variety of individuals to then care for our aging population. And that led to many specialists doing work and advancing their fields within their professional societies, providing guidance and so on for older adults.

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New Technologies and 3D Imaging — “The Virtual Microscope”

CDOCS

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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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

After coming out of residency and taking care of lots of complicated older adults as of now, a brand new physician attending, I really needed that team to help me out. Number four, again, structure and process that promotes early mobilization which may or may not require a formal OT and PT consultation. And that model just made sense.

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

GeriPal

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 I can only imagine that’s even more complicated in the cancer patient population, where we’re asking them to do so many other things as well.