Vida Family Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

There is a lot of misinformation on the internet and on social media about this condition, so I wanted to share more information to help better explain this condition and what it means. Genetics : If you have a family history of PCOS, you may be at a higher risk of developing the condition. What is PCOS?

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Plum Health

MAY 19, 2023

Transparent Pricing: With DPC, you know exactly what you're paying for - no hidden costs, no complicated insurance bills. Join the Plum Health DPC Family Today Join the Plum Health DPC family and start enjoying a fresh, personalized approach to healthcare.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Chae : The four pillars of obesity care is a helpful framework that defines the essential elements of obesity care, which include nutrition therapy, physical activity, behavioral modification, and, if clinically indicated, medical interventions (eg, medication management, bariatric procedures, and complication management).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

In those instances, Medicare pays first if they or their family member works at a company with fewer than 100 employees. The information appears in a chart in the government’s “Medicare & You” handbook, if someone knows to look for it. But it is not easy to find. The post Have Job-Based Health Coverage at 65?

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 12, 2025

Tracking trends through home monitoring and informing your doctor can help verify if treatment is needed. All heart attacks require urgent medical care to try to prevent complications. Imperial Center Family Medicine is here to help support your heart health with personalized blood pressure management guidance.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By Paul Amendola, Executive Director, VecnaCares Reference: Bartlett L , Avery L , Ponnappan P , et al, Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000845.

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears

APRIL 6, 2023

Doctors are required to take ‘informed consent’ from patients pre-op. This means explaining the benefits, risks, complications and alternates of the procedure. The problem is patients don’t understand medical terms often and complicated procedures are often over simplified so everyone is on the same page.

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Medicine is facing a crisis of information. Beyond the increase of biomedical information are rising demands for physician response to portal messaging (MyChart messages) and review of wearable generated data. And in my experience the exchange of information from the Cures Act Final Rule has added new dialog around test results.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

This story goes back to the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which prohibits manufacturers from selling any “new tobacco product” without authorization from FDA. Youth behavioral data was not specifically required but FDA encouraged such information. They also included observational studies.

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CDOCS

MAY 4, 2021

I diagnosed this case to be complex, requiring extensive bone regeneration, possibly with multiple grafts and informed this patient of the risks, timeline and complexity of his case. The possible complications were communicated so that the patient could make an informed decision and proceed with treatment.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

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. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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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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StorytellERdoc

MARCH 18, 2020

Gone are the carefree smiles, the uncomplicated daily lives, and the thought that we and our families are immune to unexpected death. Friends and family have asked me my thoughts on Covid-19, maybe believing I have some special information simply from being on the front lines. We are all scared. Don't engage. Let's be proactive.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Dr. James Martínez, family medicine physician at Community Health Partners, explains: “Preventive care represents one of the most powerful tools we have in medicine. Identifying health concerns before symptoms appear gives us tremendous advantages in treatment success and minimizing long-term complications.

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Mere Mortal MD

MAY 22, 2025

My role is to head the rehabilitation team, while treating any medical complications that may arise from their initial injury or diagnoses. Every time my patients or families appealed their discharge, Medicare returned with the determination that the hospital and rehabilitation team were correct. It is not a hotel. It is not home.

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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. The digital age, while offering incredible access to information, has also become an incubator for the spread of partial truths, facts taken out of context, or outright misinformation.

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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. There’s not that much information on smoking and cognition. One might argue they still are. So, that’s how I ended up there.

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Edge Family Medicine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

At Edge Family Medicine, we prioritize early detection to give our patients the best chance at a healthy life. By identifying health issues in their initial stages, patients can make informed decisions and act promptly. 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. This is relatively easy for straightforward medical decisions like taking an antibiotic for an infection, but becomes complicated during more complex situations. Medicine involves many extremely ethically challenging situations.

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Vascular Physician

DECEMBER 20, 2020

When most people hear the word "aneurysm" they tend to think of the many complications associated with aneurysms listed below: Rupture This would be a surgical emergency. A few risk factors are listed below: Smoking Hypertension Family history Advanced age How many types of aneurysms are there? Ipswich (MA): EBSCO Information Services.

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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. And the sort of the ask was, “Oh yeah, you can talk to the family, right?

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Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 28, 2024

There is a lot of information and a lot of marketing out there creating a lot of confusion. 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. I provide information about the risks, side effects, costs, and potential benefits.

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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. And one of the hardest things is to distill it down to a sentence or two about what is information, what does it mean? And then be quiet and listen.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

First, a clinician’s thoughts must be encoded into words, then transmitted often via sounds, and finally decoded back to thoughts by a patient or family member. Eric: Well, this is the part that I love about your article, too, is that it’s not just these big, big family meetings where miscommunication happens. Simple, right?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

She called the NIH news “a complicated mix of emotions,” CNN said. “We These funds would be a lifeline for many families who are still grappling with health concerns and some economic hardship,” she said. More information Earth Island Institute has more on the chemicals released during the train derailment in East Palestine.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Dozens of listeners responded with their stories, including Bob, who is being identified only by his first name to guard his family’s privacy and whose daughter has epilepsy. This is the kind of information we all need, all deserve. Because… Dan: Bob’s new job meant… a new insurance plan for the family.

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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

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? She falls and breaks her hip. She has advance dementia.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. The more we can notice that, the more we can actually be present for that family and actually see how they’re experiencing it.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And so I was driven by the fact that I needed more information, and so it sort of became my clinical focus as well as I dabble in the research. They are complicated.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. I was really passionate about helping the people and also their families. Let’s say, family-centered care for heart and lung disease wasn’t really going on a few decades ago.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

But if we’re going to have a family meeting, that’s a different circumstance. It’s amazing how often when we’re taking care of somebody in the hospital, if you have Say, you know, a family member who is not showing up for visits with the medical team or who is. So help serves and hinders in everybody.

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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? I think the two spaces it comes out of, one is informed consent, which is this idea that people need to have an understanding of their disease and treatment.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. Katie: Thanks for the opportunity.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Charlotta: Yeah, I think it will be in reducing the need to spend so many hours on documentation and looking through the EHR for information. And what we are seeing in our research is that, we’re working on GPT four, is volunteering information that we didn’t ask for. The information there and you limit it in that way.

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