Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

If low bone density is present, it’s often treated alongside a weight loss program. Likewise, the National Institute on Aging developed a toolkit to help promote safe, effective exercise techniques for old er adults. How might primary care physicians coordinate this care in settings with limited specialist access?

Management 52

Management Primary Care Physicals Telehealth 52

Vascular Physician

APRIL 22, 2024

Unfortunately, high blood pressure does not always present with symptoms that are noticeable by the patient. Unless they are seeing their primary care provider for regular check-ups, they may not be made aware of their high blood pressure until they present for evaluation for another medical condition.

ER 52

ER Hypertension Primary Care Medical 52

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Alex Ablesmith, on his website, had a good kind of description, in summary, and I thought, boy, this is a really nice tool, because the design, the idea was to sort of bring a therapeutic intervention into a time contained environment, which the primary care clinic certainly is. And so bathe is an acronym.

Illness 130

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 130

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. And so how do we think about palliative care in those patients? They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. But yeah, it’s complicated. No, no, no.

Patient-Centered 78

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

But as a first year resident trainee at the University of Toronto, I cared for a young man in his early 30s while working in a shelter. He was a person with schizophrenia, he was a person who used drugs and he presented in pain crisis to our shelter. We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care.

Healthcare 102

Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated.

Patients 98

Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. We had, since the late seventies, a home-based primary care program. Annals of Int Med.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115