Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 12, 2025

Getting the facts straight on some common blood pressure management myths can help you take control of your heart health. Following your physician’s treatment regimen, which may include medication and lifestyle adjustments, can help you regain control of your blood pressure management, regardless of your age.

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Management DO Family Medicine Hypertension 52

Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

From managing rising costs and staffing shortages to navigating complex payer requirements and administrative burdens, the results reveal a profession under pressure from multiple fronts. The results also shed light on emerging concerns that could further complicate operations in 2025, including economic uncertainty and regulatory shifts.

Chronic Disease Management 52

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 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.

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CDOCS

MAY 4, 2021

Couple this with the in-office technologies of CEREC&reg; Primescan and CBCT allowed us to gain control of the technical processes necessary to manage and produce the surgical and restorative phases of treatment at one location.</span></p> We reviewed the 3D images together and discussed the risks associated with his case.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Patients Manufacturing Clinic 52

GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

I know this is like, we’re talking about math and so that makes it all a little complicated, but think about it this way. But I think people would have an embolic event if you gave them a flipping range. I really am not buying that it’s too complicated to do A over B, equal C over D, if you know three of the four variables.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The role of lifestyle and dietary modifications in management. Management of gastritis and the consideration of Helicobacter pylori infection. Gastroesophageal Reflux: Management Guidance for the Pediatrician. They do, though, have distinct pathophysiologies and management strategies. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Maybe even had come in with a complication. Emily 19:52 You know, some complication that might have even like, you know, kind of triggered that thought process about maybe it’s time for me to come off of the medication and just. Of the medication. Maybe a fall or delirium. Eric 19:51 Yeah.

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Center for Family Medicine

JUNE 13, 2025

While some of these changes are inevitable, many can be managed effectively with early intervention and regular medical care. These conditions can lead to heart attacks, strokes, and other serious complications. The gradual buildup of plaque in the arteries often goes unnoticed until a major event occurs.

PCP 52

PCP PCP Diabetes Primary Care Physician 52

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to focus upstream on the decision to initiate dialysis vs conservative kidney management. This is Eric Widera. Alex 00:12 This is Alex Smith. So we got a lot to cover.

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Management Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 31, 2024

December 17 th marked 11 years since this blog has been in existence, but for the first time ever since its creation, I managed to go the entire year without a single post! I was floored that I would be considered to be a speaker at such a prestigious event, and I loved my time there! December December has been a whirlwind!

Medical Student 52

Medical Student IT Patient-Centered Medical 52

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. I’ve seen patients post transplant when they start having complications. They are complicated. They’re complicated from a symptom standpoint. Amy 12:23 I find this one.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

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.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Complication IT Patients 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

And so to them, the real frustrating part is they’re supposed to be treating people like it’s a one-time event the very first time, and the system of EMS is not designed to be longitudinal complex care, and yet that’s basically what we’re seeing happening. Same thing with kind of medication management.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Between routine care, medication management, and patients who opened up about their mental health struggles, it was clear that a strong baseline of trust had been established. At the Family Medicine office, I observed the close relationships fostered between Dr. Der Simonian and her patients.

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Medical Student Family Medicine DO Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Alex 00:20 Today we’re delighted and honored to welcome Eduardo Bruera, who is one of the biggest symptom management gurus, if not the biggest symptom management guru in palliative medicine. If the patient has a spectacular response to HIV management or the cancer treatment, then the main factors are removed.

Illness 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor.

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 96

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. They supported patients, they gave them a holding environment, they did symptom management, yada, yada, yada, like all the things we know palliative care clinicians do.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. How much of your training was focused on managing substance use disorder training and palliative care? So it could be a case manager at a shelter or an outreach worker who works in the encampment areas of Toronto. Naheed 15:56 2014.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so for pt, we’re generally focused on assistance with transfers, providing assistive devices to help people maintain independence with ambulation, doing stairs, leaving their homes, getting into the community, but really focusing on symptom management. Ann: Yeah, I’ll let Tamra speak if you want. Do you know those?

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Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Our volunteers are starting to take over ownership of this program, so we’re kind of like building a team to help kind of maintain it, manage it, and make sure that everything’s on the up and up with it. Relationships are usually more complicated. And we’re. We’re sort of. And I asked, why did you choose this?

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38129210. Kleinman, A.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications? But I think it’s artificial, as we’ve already shown in this conversation, to talk about that as a isolated event. So dad asked, “Oh, great. When can I see again?”

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IT Families Family Patient-Centered 128

GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

The events are conditions that’ll be set into place unless some active choice to the contrary is chosen. But you know, we managed to work it through and people got used to it and throughout the duration of the trial. Because it’s complicated and we don’t want to over complicate prayer listeners.

Patient-Centered 116

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Illness 116

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. So people are less able to have the language when the loss event actually happens. Turns out, it’s maybe not. And we don’t talk about it as much.

Healthcare Professional 102

Healthcare Professional Healthcare IT Relationship 102

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Someone’s function in the future can depend on, like, a crisis event, like a fall and a hip fracture. I don’t know how our patients manage that. It’s not just in the next couple weeks or months. James 26:49 Exactly. And also, a lot of it is kind of challenging to predict, like, if you.

Family 106

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