Center for Family Medicine

MAY 14, 2025

With appropriate treatment and proactive measures, individuals with arthritis can improve daily life while minimizing discomfort and adding years of relief. A pharmacist or doctor should advise on the best dosage to meet individual needs. Consulting a healthcare professional is crucial before beginning any new regimen.

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Center for Family Medicine

MAY 7, 2025

Early detection of diabetes can help prevent complications like heart disease, kidney damage, and nerve problems. As the body loses more fluids through increased urination, it triggers a dehydration response, making individuals affected feel constantly thirsty. However, knowing when to get blood sugar levels checked can be confusing.

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Vascular Physician

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This is because both diabetes and PAD have many of the same risk factors and complications. If you are diagnosed with PAD, your healthcare provider will create a personalized treatment plan to help manage your symptoms. It is estimated that between 20-30% of people with diabetes also have PAD.

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Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Managing Type 2 diabetes requires more than just medication—it demands a long-term partnership with a skilled healthcare provider who understands your individual needs. But how do you find the right diabetes specialist in a crowded healthcare landscape? Ask: How many Type 2 diabetes patients do they treat each month?

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Myriad Genetics

APRIL 26, 2024

Dense breast tissue complicates this as it makes cancers more difficult to detect. Healthcare providers recommend annual breast screening with mammography beginning at age 40 for average risk women. Catching breast cancer early is critical, as early detection can lead to positive outcomes.

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Vascular Physician

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Causes of Chronic Venous Insufficiency Common causes of CVI include: Prolonged standing or sitting Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) Obesity Pregnancy and hormonal changes Family history and genetic factors Risk Factors for Chronic Venous Insufficiency Certain factors could make you more likely to be affected by CVI.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Deliver the program via an interdisciplinary healthcare team. Given practical constraints in many healthcare settings, who are the minimum essential team members for multidisciplinary management of weight loss in older adults? These recommendations are ideals, and some participants may require workarounds.

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Vascular Physician

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As a result, your kidneys may not be able to properly function, which can lead to other serious health complications. The majority of individuals who develop RAS also have atherosclerosis, a condition that causes sticky plaque to build up on the inside of your artery walls. How Common is RAS?

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 12, 2025

The best way to know if your levels fall into the unhealthy range is to get your healthcare provider to check your blood pressure regularly. Check with your doctor about safe alcohol consumption given your individual health profile. All heart attacks require urgent medical care to try to prevent complications.

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Vascular Physician

JUNE 12, 2022

Because individuals with claudication are more likely to have a heart attack or stroke, seeking medical care quickly is important. We can help determine if claudication is to blame and create an individualized treatment plan to meet your unique needs. What Are the Symptoms? Contact us today to schedule your consultation.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What should we use to screen individuals? Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The zero-sum medical day In many healthcare systems the Epic feature is turned on and health professionals are expected to respond. Maybe it’s our faulty healthcare model? And individual practice styles are fine. The local family doctor wants to use antibiotics and we need to know whether we should fly to Dubai.

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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. What is the role of the family caregiver system, how they play a role?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

As a family physician, my days are filled with caring for individuals and families across the lifespan and in multiple healthcare settings. While natural infection can indeed lead to immunity, it comes at the cost of potentially severe illness, complications, and even death.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

I just thought there was so much we could learn and offer from every sense, from the clinical point of view, from the family point of view, from prevention, from treatment, epidemiology, et cetera. I’m thinking of chronic pain, for example, and individuals with chronic pain often have disturbed sleep or other conditions.

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Edge Family Medicine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Preventive screenings are essential medical tests that help detect diseases before symptoms arise, leading to more effective treatment and reduced healthcare costs. At Edge Family Medicine, we prioritize early detection to give our patients the best chance at a healthy life. Why Choose Edge Family Medicine for Preventive Screenings?

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2022

These are intellectually interesting but often personally devastating to the patient and family involved. A patient must have the autonomy to choose whether in their individual situation, the potential benefits outweigh the potential harms. Medicine involves many extremely ethically challenging situations. What Roe v.

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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. Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and metabolic associated fatty liver disease all have the potential to cause life-altering complications and premature death.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. We owe it to the patient to explore the reasons behind the “no,” commonly not wanting to be a burden to their family. Should you stop at “no?” AlexSmithMD Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. Elise 07:02 So healthcare workers for sure. And you’re in the ICU family meeting, and it gets heated. So it’s a lot, but it’s good.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 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. David: Right.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

They argue that the current guidelines, which prioritize immunocompromised people and unvaccinated older people on the same level, should be re-done to prioritize the immunocompromised first, and additionally move up older vaccinated individuals or vaccinated persons with comorbidities. What’s wrong with that? Why not prioritize them?

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 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 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia. You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

And especially for those who may have nontraditional families. I think if you’re from a nontraditional family, it’s very important to make sure that people understand who you would want to talk to. Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 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

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary Falls are very common among older adults but often go unreported or untreated by healthcare providers. And the big things that we think about as far as complications, so there, obviously the thing that comes to everybody’s mind is like fractures. There may be lots of reasons behind this.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 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

MAY 4, 2023

It is really difficult for the patients and the families. Patients that remind us of loved ones, patients that are often younger, really hard stories, complicated issues. They do choose to rely more on their family and parents in ways that might feel like a step backwards and is yet, still developmentally appropriate and autonomous.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Second, as we discussed in last week’s podcast , older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, were far more likely to die than younger individuals. It’s baked into people’s belief systems, who ultimately make laws and make policies, and it can influence healthcare. Eric: Absolutely. I was going to stop at that point.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It’s the clinicians on the rounding team, yes, but also the multidisciplinary team is really important, how they support the patient, the family, the doctors, the nurses, but also how the broader institutional structures such as ethics committees, et cetera, how they support. Alex: I found your quotes particularly hard hitting here.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

-Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. those experiencing homelessness).

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Alex 06:20 Can I what’s the healthcare equivalent to the Starbucks coffee? Inside or outside of healthcare? We did another nudging trial where the deep default was for default palliative care consultations for high risk patients, and it significantly increased individuals who were receiving palliative care.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Complicated grief? And, you know, I really leaned in from my perspective as a primary care geriatrician to hearing from what my patients and their family caregivers are asking me for and asking me about, and they’re asking me about how they can prepare. And that family was not necessarily a trusted network. Depression?

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Alex: It’s complicated. We, for very complicated reasons, ended up with niacin. One of the headlines there was about a family medicine doc, not to pick on family medicine, a doc, who was prescribing mail order psychedelics at really high volumes around the country. So, creating a- Alex: Control condition.

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