GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months. It can’t be diagnosed and adios.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

One of the primary tools used in diagnosing fever is the thermometer, an instrument that measures body temperature. Fever can present alongside other symptoms, such as chills and fatigue, which may help in diagnosing the underlying cause. Using these methods can reduce temperature discomfort and minimize complications.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Whether it's a urinary tract infection or a severe ear infection, urgent care clinics can quickly diagnose and treat infections. 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!

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. 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.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

But often what we’re talking about is this experience that we can describe physically inside of our body, the sensation that we’re having as we’re anticipating that things may go wrong or badly in some kind of way. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body.

Illness 129

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. But a lot of that is because older adults don’t do as well after injury, because of physiologic changes. ” Alex: Interesting.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. It’s another article, another major article that has triggered the complicated UTI circuit. But what I did want to highlight is how we got to thinking about men that have UTIs have complicated UTIs.

Complication 52

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

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. I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0 And I think that’s where it gets really interesting from the standpoint of ethics. Alex: Mm-hmm. Charlotta: Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. Should we have like a list of diagnoses or prognosis. That gets really complicated as well. Or there’s physical symptom needs. We, I’m going to say, pit diagnoses against each other. What does “early” really mean?

Consulting 99

Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 99

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

50 to 70% of people who are diagnosed with UTIs probably don’t have a UTI. Eric: So this is a complicated pathway, right? How good are clinicians and nurses in following these guidelines or diagnosing a UTI? I hear it’s over diagnosed. Alex: Can I just reiterate what you said because that’s remarkable.

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

And as a resident, I just was drawn, similar to many oncology clinicians and fellows, to just be traumatic and difficult experience of patients with blood cancers during prolonged and intense hospitalizations, where they experience a lot of physical symptoms, emotional trauma related to the diagnoses. I loved Areej’s article.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia. So cachexia, I would put it involuntary weight loss is the number one way to diagnose it. But what I tell them is, keep yourself physically active. Keep yourself physically as active as possible. Is it just loss of.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. I mean, the fact is that intensive care, as you said, Alex, I mean we invoke it as a way of trying to, in a very intensive focused way, attend to people who are in physical, biologically in dire straits. We examine, we diagnose, we fix.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

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. The first one is I would want the general public and healthcare professionals to really understand actually what natural dying and death look like.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. Keri: It does remind me, Dani, of that scapegoating phenomenon, when you’re talking about projection, where you see anger getting projected onto another person or a team, saying, “Oh, it’s the physical therapist’s fault or the oncologist is culpable.”

Patients 109

Patients IT Family Families 109

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Don 13:50 Well, you know, I think one of the issues, though, when you ask about prevalence data, especially, say, in the oncology world, not only does it matter about how you ask the questions, but because it’s such a complicated topic, people may infer very different things as to what you’re talking about. Sharon 15:21 Right.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

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. The intervention itself is very straightforward. Before the primary care visit.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. Alex 05:48 I guess we didn’t do hospice specifically. Eric 05:50 Yeah. What’s in it again? It’s a measure of function. Kara 05:54 Yeah, exactly.

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

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. Just think about something like a nurse visit, a nursing visit, or a physical therapy visit.

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GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Eric Widera reminds us of the history of the Goldwater Act created by the American Psychological Association in the 1960s which states that psychiatrists should refrain from diagnosing public figures, and the American Medical Association code of ethics which likewise discourages armchair diagnosis (rule established in 2017).

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