Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 12, 2025

Tracking trends through home monitoring and informing your doctor can help verify if treatment is needed. 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.

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Management Family Medicine DO Hypertension 52

PEMBlog

JANUARY 21, 2025

This article delineates the salient clinical features, associated complications, cost considerations, and risk profiles for each virus, thereby providing a framework for informed clinical decision-making. Common Complications : Otitis media : Diagnosis is supported by the presence of a bulging tympanic membrane with purulent effusion.

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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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Patient-Centered Patients Manufacturing Clinic 52

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. It’s under recognized, under diagnosed, under treated, under discussed, understudied as a result. That can be incredibly informative. Clinicians don’t ask about it.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Eric: And swallowing is complicated, right? You see something on a bedside swallow, or on a FEES, you’re diagnosing what you think it is. So, we use that information to formulate a treatment plan. Are there things that we can do to prevent the complication of aspiration, which we most fear, aspiration pneumonia?

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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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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

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. This has always been the tipping point, the information that got the patient out the door. His medical diagnoses were stable. He could move well enough to go home safely.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

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. There’s not that much information on smoking and cognition. Or is it going to get worse because they’re now having these complications from lecanemab?

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Identifying health concerns before symptoms appear gives us tremendous advantages in treatment success and minimizing long-term complications. Your provider updates this information at each visit to maintain an accurate picture of your health journey. Health tracking apps can help maintain this information systematically.

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Preventive Care Preventative Care Appointment Screening 100

Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

One of the primary tools used in diagnosing fever is the thermometer, an instrument that measures body temperature. This information can help pinpoint possible causes of illness and guide further investigations. Fever can present alongside other symptoms, such as chills and fatigue, which may help in diagnosing the underlying cause.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. Infections or allergic reactions can block your airway and lead to life-threatening complications. In severe cases, lack of oxygen can cause loss of consciousness, which can lead to life-threatening complications if not treated right away.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. Whether it's a urinary tract infection or a severe ear infection, urgent care clinics can quickly diagnose and treat infections.

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Edge Family Medicine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

By identifying health issues in their initial stages, patients can make informed decisions and act promptly. 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

JUNE 27, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. 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?

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Charlotta: Yeah, I think it will be in reducing the need to spend so many hours on documentation and looking through the EHR for information. And this case has been worked out the best in terms of the artificial intelligence suggesting diagnoses the clinician may have missed. The information there and you limit it in that way.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 100

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

And several times now, I read the notes and it’s just that someone has copied the contact information for someone into that note, but no one has actually contacted them or confirmed that they would want that person present. Emily: Looks like informed decision making around family involvement. Eric: Lynn or Anne?

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 98

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. But I think then the other factor in this that makes it complicated is the decision for someone in Manhattan might be very different than the decision for someone in, like, rural Wyoming. Emmy: Yeah.

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IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

50 to 70% of people who are diagnosed with UTIs probably don’t have a UTI. I appreciate that information. Eric: So this is a complicated pathway, right? You’re trying to include information from symptoms in a population, also in a geriatric population that may have multiple reasons going on. Is that right?

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 123

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. They need, they need some, a little bit of information and probably a little more than that, what we like to call an edge. That gets really complicated as well. Thank you, Eric.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 100

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. And those two are closely aligned.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 111

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. And a moral compass that’s informed by understanding that the world isn’t the way you see it necessarily. We examine, we diagnose, we fix. That the wish to… Eric: Complicated. Harvey: Complicated. ‘I want everything.'”

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. We have an epidemic of BMI and therefore never use the way the patient looks like to diagnose cachexia. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 134

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. 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.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Where do we go with all of this information? And then from a dementia and multiple different diagnoses, how much should hospice look the same for everyone, or tailored to the patient or the diagnosis that we’re dealing with? People across all diagnoses want hospice care. I think it goes back to Lauren. Melissa: Yeah.

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Families Family IT Patients 107

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

And then, I did a lot of introspection and realized that I’ve actually been doing this for folks in an informal way, family church members and friends, but I didn’t do it so well with my own mother. ” I spent 32 years in information technology, would you believe, and switched over to this full time a few years ago.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice. And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. I recently had this patient in clinic who, for complicated reasons that I won’t go into, our outpatient clinic had to put limits on his frequency of visits with me. Eric: Yeah.

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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. It was information about our ACP facilitator.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But I think that would be a really interesting next step to see if the trend in PPS scores adds information about the patient’s prognosis, which I expect it would.

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Families Family Patient-Centered Patients 108

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.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 131

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Something which draws on some idea of what a human being is, which many of our citizens will disagree with, holding a different philosophical or religiously informed review about that. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Complications that you should be aware of include bacteremia, endocarditis, septic arthritis, or osteomyelitis. If you think that there’s an abscess, you can diagnose it clinically by a localized area of induration or fluctuance or use an ultrasound. Bilateral red limbs? That’s probably something different.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Aside from coughing forever, there’s some important complications you need to be aware of. So respiratory complications include apnea, secondary bacterial pneumonia, and pulmonary hypertension. And you definitely have to watch those kids very closely for the complications such as hypoxia and secondary infections.

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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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Diagnosis IT Diagnose Physicals 141

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. “But we can’t really prove this,” said Kaye Pestaina, director of the Program on Patient and Consumer Protection at KFF, a health information nonprofit that includes KFF Health News.

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