The Medical Futurist

JUNE 2, 2025

The title, Drugs vs. DTx, is a classic case of the “it’s complicated” relationship status. They hold the promise of improved health outcomes, greater accessibility, and cost-effectiveness in patient care when used based on proper evidence. But this isn’t just a novel concept.

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Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Certified Diabetes Educators (CDE): While not doctors, they play a key role in diabetes education and lifestyle support. Check Experience With Type 2 Diabetes Patients Not all endocrinologists or general practitioners have extensive experience with Type 2 diabetes. Ask: How many Type 2 diabetes patients do they treat each month?

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Physicians News Digest

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The findings revealed alarming evidence that the use of e-cigarettes is associated with serious health complications, including an increased risk of dementia, heart disease, and organ failure. “It is crucial to educate the public about the risks associated with vaping,” asserted Eleanor Brooks, a public health policy expert.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

The California-based firm, Second Sight , the German company, Retina Implant AG, and the French venture, Pixium Vision were the forerunners of the field, developing implantable visual prosthetics to restore vision to patients who are blind as a result of the rare condition of retinitis pigmentosa.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 23, 2020

She will be a hospitalist next year and is interested in medical education, empowering women in medicine and improving care for inpatients with substance use disorders. He has a passion for practicing and improving medical education at all levels. He completed medical school at Baylor College of Medicine.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 20, 2022

After college, she worked at UCSF as a clinical research coordinator and patient navigator for women newly diagnosed with breast cancer, helping them prepare questions for their doctor and accompanying them to appointments. Her career interests include medical education, communication in medicine, and health equity.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 22, 2025

Those goals could include reaching a healthy blood pressure, lowering your cholesterol levels or managing complications associated with diabetes. They can offer extra support, like a referral to a diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) program. PACT Endocrinology is currently welcoming new patients with diabetes.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

First, to meet protein needs, patients can be counseled to include 30 grams of high-quality protein sources at each meal. I envision primary care clinicians playing an important role in assessing the individual needs of the older adult patient and helping them access essential elements of the care plan.

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Reflections of a Grady Doctor

JULY 30, 2019

My diligent resident quickly went to assess the patient. I highly competent, extraordinarily professional, incredibly thoughtful young physician with a knack for caring for the sickest of patients. I examined the patient for myself, yes, but mostly? But as soon as she saw me, her face erupted into this complicated smile.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

More recently health professionals have seen a rise in MyChart messages coming in through the Epic patient portal. According to Epic, the number of patient messages spiked 151 percent nationally from the period covering the first 11 weeks of 2020 through the end of the year. Crucial that we fix this. Absolutely. How do we fix this?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Study Discussion Brooke Worster, MD , a clinician not involved in the study, reviewed the findings with Physician’s Weekly ( PW ) and highlighted strategies for physicians to engage young adult patients in constructive discussions about cannabis use. It’s more complicated than that. PW: Did the results surprise you? Why, or why not?

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PEMBlog

MAY 28, 2025

In pediatric patients, complications can evolve rapidly and carry significant morbidity and mortality. Many complications mimic other pathologies such as sepsis, malignancy, or psychiatric disease. Education, psychosocial support, and long-term follow-up remain critical in improving outcomes for children with cSLE.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

“What I see constantly now is that insurers go back and they claw back the money from the doctor and the doctor then claws the money back from the patient,” he said. . A UnitedHealthcare spokesperson declined to provide an on-the-record statement, citing safety concerns. But there may be more bills to come.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes. Patients received brochures detailing the risks of gabapentinoids, nonpharmacologic alternatives, and a proposed deprescribing regimen (see here for the brochure ). in the usual care group.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 19, 2021

What’s my job with my patients. Usually these are things the patient didn’t know about when they came to see me. This usually involves taking elements of a patient’s story, applying wisdom and experience and then offering a really educated guess about what’s happening. This sounds like a crazy question. Translate.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

When I’m on service these days there is inevitably a moment when a resident says “Patient so-and-so is on X” – and I have absolutely no idea what X is. Alex: And we are delighted to welcome Rasheeda Hall, who is a physician scientist in the division of nephrology at Duke University School of Medicine, and sees patients at the Durham VA.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

A patient is on morphine and you want to convert it to another opioid like hydromorphone (dilaudid). Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. Step four is adjusting it for your patient. How do you do that?

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CDOCS

APRIL 7, 2021

As an endodontic specialist, patients have higher expectations when visiting my practice, so I feel the need to go above and beyond to provide quality treatment. This type of workflow ease is essential in streamlining the patients experience in and out of the chair.</span></p>

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CDOCS

MAY 4, 2021

Without this additional skill set and post graduate training I simply could not deliver the results that my patients deserve. & A healthy 46-year-old patient who has lived for over 30 years with missing bilateral maxillary incisors desired a fixed solution to his problem.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

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 we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Which patients are eligible to go to an ACE unit? So I picked the Ed Sheeran song, The A Team, because it reminds me of our ACE team that goes around the hospital and cares for our older patients. And a light bulb just went off in my head, like, yes, this makes sense as a model for how we should care for more complex older patients.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Rather, it can change the bleeding phenotype from severe hemophilia to mild hemophilia – thus potentially reducing the risk of complications. An increasing number of children and adolescents with hemophilia A are on Hemlibra, and therefor the purpose of this post is to educate and raise awareness. Factor first! Haemophilia.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Certainly education, quality of education is extremely important. Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health. Like, education, is it that it prevents you from getting Alzheimer’s disease, or does it just give you more reserve so Alzheimer’s peeks out later?

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 17, 2022

FDA approved FIRDAPSE in November 2018, with a period of orphan drug exclusivity, for the treatment of Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (“LEMS”) in adult patients. But even before the House Energy and Commerce Committee acts, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee held a April 26, 2022 hearing on UFA reauthorization.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary If you’re anything like me, you might find the process of what happens to patients when they visit a radiation oncologist somewhat mysterious. Anish 01:02 Well, I speak, you know, from a physician lens of some of the patients that I get referred, and by the time there’s. This is not a good option.

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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. Gastroesophageal reflux disease is when the patients have severe symptoms that persist and cause long term issues.

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Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 28, 2024

As a primary care physician, I am asked about these medications at least once a day, either by a patient, a colleague, a family member, friend, or acquaintance. As most of you know, I follow a Health at Every Size® approach to the care of my patients. Sometimes, for some patients, the GLP-1 receptor agonists may be the best choice.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It’s a jampacked 50 minutes, filled with pearls on taking care of patients with liver disease. Kirsten 04:16 So, in emergency medicine, obviously, we are interacting and caring for these both exciting and interesting, but also very complex and humbling patients to care for in the ED setting. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. Your research is a lot in this patient population, right? It used to be a much more complicated model. The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. Lyndsay: Yes.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. They were stunned by the number of calls for lift assistance for older adults who had fallen. Carmen: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

How, though, do we navigate anxiety and help our patients who may end up in the anxiety spiral that becomes so hard to get out of? Something I’ll often point out to patients is, you know, how do you identify your emotions? On today’s podcast, we’ve invited Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson to talk to us about anxiety.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. Jenny reached out to us because she plays music regularly for her patients, and she said, you should do a podcast about music. And I performed for many palliative patients, and that’s when I started to understand.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 31, 2024

As for other March highlights, I was able to attend the Annual Medical Education Conference (AMEC) of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA), and celebrate the SNMA's 60th anniversary. Another major highlight of June, was being able to have the first resident clinic patient of my program and operate on my own patient.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

Our guests remind us to ask our patients about their housing status using non-judgmental and non-stigmatizing language. If we do not know the housing status of our patients, then we do not know one of the most fundamental things that is going to affect their health and wellbeing. 2. Can you refer your patient there? 3.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And, who within ASPE guides aging policy and connects policy to every day health challenges experienced by patients and clinicians? Alex: And we are delighted to welcome Rasheeda Hall, who is a physician scientist in the division of nephrology at Duke University School of Medicine, and sees patients at the Durham VA.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Cannabis is complicated. If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? And then one patient who really knew more about a topic than I did, which unfortunately happens much more often.

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