Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 12, 2025

You Don’t Need Blood Pressure Medication If You Exercise And Eat Healthy Making heart-healthy lifestyle changes involving nutrition and physical activity should be the foundation for controlling blood pressure. All heart attacks require urgent medical care to try to prevent complications.

Management 52

Management DO Family Medicine Hypertension 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

And I think of the analogy of, like, cancer screening. The stopping the cancer screening doesn’t have that same sort of momentum. Maybe even had come in with a complication. So acupuncture, Tai Chi, Yoga, mindfulness and physical therapy, chiropractor. You know, we got to prevent cancer. We got our pink ribbons.

Specialization 119

Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 119

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. And one person even called the system 75 times and that was just a light-bulb event for me. laughter] Carmen, welcome to the GeriPal podcast!

Community 114

Community Transportation IT PCP 114

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I mean, to me, the Buddhist concept that there are multiple forms of suffering, like there’s the suffering that’s due to pain and physical symptoms. I think there is a difference, too, between physical suffering, and we have to also give that its dignity. I think there is definitely a place, especially physical.

IT 137

IT Families Family Physicals 137

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

A music therapist would use music deliberately to achieve a rehabilitation goal, just like a physical therapist or an occupational therapist. He’s bringing in, like, a physical record player, but now also in hospice units as well, they’re bringing out music players with headphones. I am not a board certified.

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

I had it on my screen. 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.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

We talk about positive aspects of aging, cognitive screening, the line between legitimate concerns and ageism, ableism, advice for a geriatrician asked to comment on TV, frailty and physical disability, images in the press , historical situations including , and an upper age limit for the Presidency, among other issues.

Diagnosis 141

Diagnosis IT Diagnose Physicals 141