Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

For residents of Mesa and the surrounding East Valley communities, staying current with recommended preventive care can lead to better health outcomes and reduced healthcare costs. These interventions focus on keeping people healthy and addressing risk factors before any symptoms appear.

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Preventive Care Preventative Care Family Physician Screening 100

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

-@AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of life care Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex Smith: This is Alex Smith. Is that your experience?

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 73

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

During my training, I didn’t receive much education about radiation oncology, and I’m not entirely sure what some of the terms mean (hypofractionated means fewer sessions, right?). Anish 07:54 I would say sort of echoing what Emily was just referring to is education is key. So I think education is key.

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Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. And you could say the same thing about insurance companies. Insurance companies will pay for a lot of drugs that have really not a whole lot of evidence at a lot of costs. But to this day, I haven’t heard of an insurance company that’s willing to cover cannabis.

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 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. Is this our role?

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Family Families IT Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Alex: It’s complicated. We, for very complicated reasons, ended up with niacin. So I think understanding or keeping in mind those concerns will be helpful in educating and recruiting participants or providing harm reduction in a naturalistic setting. So, creating a- Alex: Control condition. Eric: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

For example, putting the healthy food at the back of the grocery store is sludge; making an applicant for health insurance climb the flight of stairs to the office – weeding out those less fit – is also sludge. And especially that requires a lot of education. Prior-auth forms? You know what I mean? Eric 23:03 If you want.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116