GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. 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 yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. Goldilocks zone). This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

A lot of these are more vascular risk factors: hypertension, certainly; diabetes; obesity. But I would say that in terms of education, it’s really complicated because it’s so confounded by socioeconomic status and so many social determinants of health. Alex: [inaudible 00:21:37] diabetes, any comments on those?

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

And that’s what makes these issues so challenging, because at one level, we use the same term to refer to that incredibly multifactorial, complicated, complex condition as we do to stress incontinence, which is also complex in its own way. But the solutions, as we’ll get to in a few minutes, are completely different.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

If you have a chronic condition like asthma, diabetes, or arthritis, unexpected complications or flare-ups can occur at any time. Your insights could help someone else in their healthcare journey! A clinic is a medical facility where healthcare professionals provide specialized medical care to patients.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. Infections or allergic reactions can block your airway and lead to life-threatening complications. chemotherapy or steroids).

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? Eric: A lot of talk about the Aducanumab of the world, these amyloid antibodies diagnosing people with dementia really early on potentially for treatment, but also a diagnosis of dementia may limit people’s ability to do things like driving.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We discuss with her how we should work-up and manage “urinary tract infections” (I’ve added air quotes to “UTI” in honor of Tom Finucane’s JAGS article titled “Urinary Tract Infection”—Requiem for a Heavyweight in which he advocated to put air quotes around the term UTI due to the ambiguity of the diagnosis.). That’s how I would do it.

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