Myriad Genetics

APRIL 26, 2024

Dense breast tissue complicates this as it makes cancers more difficult to detect. When breast cancer is diagnosed early, the chances of successful treatment and survival are significantly higher. Yet women with dense breast tissue are at a slightly elevated risk for developing breast cancer.

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East Cary Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Insights from East Cary Family Physicians In this blog, we’re diving into one of the most prevalent health conditions worldwide: diabetes. Whether you’re newly diagnosed, caring for someone with diabetes, or seeking to enhance your knowledge, this guide aims to provide valuable insights and practical tips.

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Vascular Physician

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As a result, your kidneys may not be able to properly function, which can lead to other serious health complications. For this reason, it is important to seek treatment as quickly as possible after experiencing symptoms or being diagnosed with RAS. How Common is RAS? RAS affects over 200,000 people in the United States every year.

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Center for Family Medicine

MAY 7, 2025

Early detection of diabetes can help prevent complications like heart disease, kidney damage, and nerve problems. Lifestyle changes, such as eating a balanced diet, exercising regularly, and maintaining a healthy weight, can reduce the risk or help manage the condition if already diagnosed.

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Vascular Physician

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Causes of Chronic Venous Insufficiency Common causes of CVI include: Prolonged standing or sitting Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) Obesity Pregnancy and hormonal changes Family history and genetic factors Risk Factors for Chronic Venous Insufficiency Certain factors could make you more likely to be affected by CVI.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 12, 2025

You Can Stop Taking Medication If Your Numbers Improve Being diagnosed with hypertension means a lifetime of managing this condition through some combination of medication and lifestyle adjustments. All heart attacks require urgent medical care to try to prevent complications. There is no real “cure” for high blood pressure.

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Vascular Physician

JUNE 12, 2022

These include: • Family history of PAD and claudication • Being over the age of 50 and smoking or having diabetes • Chronic kidney disease • High cholesterol • High blood pressure • Diabetes • Obesity • Smoking What Are the Treatment Options?

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PEMBlog

MAY 1, 2025

Well break down the virology, epidemiology, clinical presentation, and complications of Parvovirus B19. Counsel families and caregiversincluding pregnant household contactson the risks, exposures, and infection control considerations related to Parvovirus B19. It is a non-enveloped, single-stranded DNA virus in the Parvoviridae family.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. It can’t be diagnosed and adios. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis.

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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. Endoscopy, upper GI and endoscopy is the gold standard for diagnosing gastritis. Non invasive H. So really, scope is still the way to go.

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CDOCS

MAY 4, 2021

I diagnosed this case to be complex, requiring extensive bone regeneration, possibly with multiple grafts and informed this patient of the risks, timeline and complexity of his case. The possible complications were communicated so that the patient could make an informed decision and proceed with treatment.

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Mere Mortal MD

MAY 22, 2025

My role is to head the rehabilitation team, while treating any medical complications that may arise from their initial injury or diagnoses. Every time my patients or families appealed their discharge, Medicare returned with the determination that the hospital and rehabilitation team were correct. It is not a hotel.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

I just thought there was so much we could learn and offer from every sense, from the clinical point of view, from the family point of view, from prevention, from treatment, epidemiology, et cetera. The biomarker discovery is tremendous, and I think truly will change the entire way ADRD is diagnosed and conceptualized in some ways.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Dr. James Martínez, family medicine physician at Community Health Partners, explains: “Preventive care represents one of the most powerful tools we have in medicine. Identifying health concerns before symptoms appear gives us tremendous advantages in treatment success and minimizing long-term complications.

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Edge Family Medicine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

At Edge Family Medicine, we prioritize early detection to give our patients the best chance at a healthy life. Here’s why early detection matters: More Effective Treatment : Diagnosing diseases early allows for timely intervention, making treatments more effective, less invasive, and often less costly.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. We owe it to the patient to explore the reasons behind the “no,” commonly not wanting to be a burden to their family. Should you stop at “no?” Anne Kelly: Hi there. Nice to be here. Eric: Lynn or Anne?

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 7, 2025

The decision of how frequently you should get a cholesterol screening largely hinges on various risk factors such as your age, sex, health conditions, lifestyle factors, and family history. More frequent screening may be necessary if a child has obesity, diabetes, or a family history of high cholesterol or cardiac disease.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

If you look in the diagnostical statistical manual, right, the sort of handbook for diagnoses, most of the diagnostic criteria are in some important ways kind of arbitrary, right? And I wonder, like, how, when you think about these different buckets of diagnoses, especially for somebody like me who does not do psychiatry.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices. It’s really a pretty traumatic experience for a lot of patients and families. And I had a blast playing Take the Money and Run!

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. But definitely always had the bug to be the one to jump into the family meetings in the ICU, lead them. We all focused on studying the outcomes for patients and families of our intervention and then the processes to get there. Thank you, Eric.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Chrissy Kistler, who is a geriatrician researcher in the Department of Family Medicine and Vision of Geriatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 50 to 70% of people who are diagnosed with UTIs probably don’t have a UTI. Eric: So this is a complicated pathway, right?

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

And this case has been worked out the best in terms of the artificial intelligence suggesting diagnoses the clinician may have missed. And then when we started coming up with mortality models or other sorts of prediction models with five factors or seven factors, people were like, “That’s too complicated. Alex: Mm-hmm.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

And the truth is we don’t want, I don’t want any patient or family to perceive that when Brera goes to see me, there’s a second interest, a second gain. We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia. Alex 24:58 I’m so glad you mentioned the family.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Alex: I’ve got to show you the back of the Jersey. Eric: Yeah. Alex: That’s right. Jennifer: Oh nice.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

So when we encounter anger clinically, when we’re in an encounter with a patient and their family, what are perhaps three steps, and we have the three step model for how we can look within ourselves and respond. What feelings do we have toward the patient and toward their families? And countertransference is everywhere.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

And again, that can create a food desert, which can create health issues for patients and their families, so that’s an example of structural racism, but again, it’s baked into laws. Eric: And it’s even more complicated, right? I probably should have said GFR. Eric: Yes. I just choose GFR.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. ” I think the family would like you to consider how to work with that.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. And making most I can do, I can use my mouth even though I only have six fingers here. So figured out a little harmonica- Eric: That was wonderful.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

So we really wondered, you know, in modern palliative care practice, where we’re seeing patients a lot farther upstream than we used to, and we’re seeing patients with a wider range of diagnoses, we wanted to update, sort of. So it’s not just like the patient or the family, but it’s also the healthcare system.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. And over that first 15 years, which was a very difficult time when there was no treatment at all available, everybody died and usually within months or a year or two of when they were diagnosed. And I also read that 1 out of 10 newly diagnosed HIV cases are in older adults.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And so this is our way of supporting non English speaking families in advanced care planning. But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And so clearly it matters how you bring up the topic, who brings up the topic, and probably the timing when this comes up for patients and families, just like we think about conversations about illness and prognostic understanding, I wish there was a good prevalent state data on how big this is of a problem in serious illness at large.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Patients families want to know whether their loved one has died. And one would be when care is continuing a case where people believe that the patients died, or oftentimes, this is also a source of controversy between families and clinicians. And I think maybe we could list them all. That’s one key interested party.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

At Mesa Family Physicians, we firmly believe that preventing health problems before they arise is always preferable to treating them after they’ve developed. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the best examples of preventive care that can help you and your family maintain optimal health throughout all stages of life.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. It really doesn’t matter all that much. There are some subtleties there. Eric: Yeah.

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