East Cary Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Insights from East Cary Family Physicians In this blog, we’re diving into one of the most prevalent health conditions worldwide: diabetes. Quit smoking, as smoking increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and other health complications. • Limit consumption of sugary beverages and processed foods.

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Society of Teachers of Family Medicine

JUNE 5, 2025

The fear of having a newborn taken away—this is a reality for many women who test positive for substances on a urine drug screen during pregnancy. The stigma and complications of substance use disorders are associated with insufficient prenatal care, inadequate nutrition, chronic medical conditions, and domestic violence.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 9, 2025

However, the correct treatment plan can help you manage your blood pressure and reduce complications. When your doctor diagnoses you with high blood pressure, they will likely recommend medications and lifestyle changes based on your risk of complications.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 9, 2025

However, the correct treatment plan can help you manage your blood pressure and reduce complications. When your doctor diagnoses you with high blood pressure, they will likely recommend medications and lifestyle changes based on your risk of complications.

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PEMBlog

MAY 1, 2025

Well break down the virology, epidemiology, clinical presentation, and complications of Parvovirus B19. Counsel families and caregiversincluding pregnant household contactson the risks, exposures, and infection control considerations related to Parvovirus B19. It is a non-enveloped, single-stranded DNA virus in the Parvoviridae family.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 12, 2025

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. The post Common Myths About Blood Pressure and Heart Health appeared first on Imperial Center Family Medicine.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 19, 2025

Recognizing subtle symptoms of high blood pressure or hypertension early is paramount for mitigating associated health risks before complications develop. The post Signs and Symptoms of High and Low Blood Pressure appeared first on Imperial Center Family Medicine. What Are the Signs and Symptoms of High Blood Pressure?

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CDOCS

JUNE 15, 2021

The articulation function can be found and turned on in the Administration screen as seen in Figure 11. This is a fantastic tool to minimize post-operative complications and does not take a lot of extra time.</span></p> Administration screen of how to set up articulation feature.</span></em></p>

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends discussing family planning and preconception counseling at the domestic medical exam (DME), yet there is little guidance on specific counseling needs in this population. Conclusions Preconception care and prenatal screenings of newcomers may differ from US-born pregnant women.

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Dr. Michael Bazel

APRIL 29, 2025

For too many men, however, routine checkups and health screenings tend to fall by the wayside — often until symptoms become unavoidable. Regular screenings help identify risk factors early, long before symptoms appear. Testing should begin around age 35, or earlier if there’s a family history of cardiovascular issues.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. Regular visits to your primary care physician at Mesa Family Physicians provide opportunities for early detection of potential health issues before they become serious problems.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Unlike appointments that address specific illnesses or injuries, preventive care visits focus on screening for potential health issues, assessing your overall wellness, and helping you establish healthy habits before problems develop. Evidence-based screening tests based on current medical guidelines, your age, and risk factors.

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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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Center for Family Medicine

JUNE 13, 2025

A primary care physician ( PCP ) can help identify potential health problems and risks, provide preventative measures, and recommend the right screenings or treatments. These conditions can lead to heart attacks, strokes, and other serious complications. While BPH is not cancerous, this condition can impact quality of life.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 7, 2025

This plaque buildup is known as atherosclerosis, which can cause cardiac disease, stroke, and other severe conditions – making early cholesterol screening essential. Routine cholesterol screenings help assess your risk for cardiovascular disease so you and your healthcare provider can better understand your overall heart health.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

What are ways we should screen for falls? 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. People don’t ask about it, they don’t screen about it. How do you screen or assess for risk for falls? Alex 04:19 Wow.

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Vida Family Medicine

JANUARY 4, 2022

to take care of ourselves and prevent disease, or to treat disease when we catch it early than it is to treat a more complicated health problem. This visit will include a review of your personal health history and family history so that your doctor can advise you on any screening tests that might be helpful for you.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

They’re starting to decompose even in the toes and fingers, and we’ll sit there and tell their family, we think they’re suffering, because we are suffering watching them, and we want them to make a decision that’ll make us feel better and take the suffering away as quickly as possible. Pain Manag Nurs. 2023.11.004.

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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

And so, three years of seeing over and over people having really difficult end of life experiences in the ICU, not being able to advocate for themselves, a lot of trauma for their families, I just thought, we have to do better than this. I was really passionate about helping the people and also their families. David: Exactly.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. We introduce it to families and patients and explain how it works and show them. Relationships are usually more complicated. I had no idea.

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Edge Family Medicine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Regular physical exams at Edge Family Medicine are essential for maintaining your health and well-being. At Edge Family Medicine , we prioritize early detection to provide timely care and prevent complications. The post The Importance of Regular Physical Exams appeared first on Edge Family Medicine.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Alex: It’s complicated. We, for very complicated reasons, ended up with niacin. Stacy: We’re using anxiety, baseline anxiety, as our screening. Alex: So that’s not our prototypical screening ESAS question. So, creating a- Alex: Control condition. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Psychedelics, promise and pitfalls.

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GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Today we talk about lucid episodes and what they might mean to the person with dementia, their family and loved ones, to philosophers, to clinicians, to neuroscientists. Andrew complicates this definition , stating it raises more questions than answers. Particularly patients, families. That their loved one is in there.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Chrissy Kistler, who is a geriatrician researcher in the Department of Family Medicine and Vision of Geriatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. So I actually got started in cancer screening also, thanks to some mutual colleagues. Eric: So this is a complicated pathway, right?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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. In addition to the grab bars, we have also helped train the EMS professionals in different lenses about screening. Welcome, Katie, to the GeriPal podcast. It works really well for us.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

We then walk through how we should screen for anxiety and how we should think about a differential. How do you think about non pharmacological approaches, or maybe even in the people who just have a shorter, maybe less complicated anxiety, but it’s still impacting their sleep?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And so it was really the patients, you know, the caregivers, the family members were the ones who were sort of the closest in observing. And my community and about my family and those kinds of things. And they had to have a family caregiver. Their family members could not come in. Our consultation. Marie 11:03 Yes.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. I had it on my screen. 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. Alex: I’ve got to show you the back of the Jersey. Eric: Yeah. Jennifer: Yeah.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It’s complicated, it’s messy. How does that defer from is it complicated grief, prolonged grief disorder? Eric: Is that the same as complicated grief? They don’t want to interact with their family. You feel a lot of things and you may feel a lot of things in the same day. Holly: Oh absolutely.

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Dr. Michael Bazel

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Early detection is crucial to prevent serious complications. While its exact cause is unknown, age, family history, and lifestyle factors play a role. The early stages of prostate cancer often have no symptoms, making screening crucial. Those with a family history of prostate cancer may need earlier screenings.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Alex 00:07 We are delighted to welcome Peter Selwyn, who is a family medicine and palliative medicine doctor and chairman of the Department of Family and Social Medicine and director of the Palliative Care Program at Montefiore E instein and author of Surviving the the Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor. Who are our guests?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? It’s hard for your family to know. It’s part of our family mythology. We see them struggle, right?

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

At Mesa Family Physicians, we firmly believe that preventing health problems before they arise is always preferable to treating them after they’ve developed. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the best examples of preventive care that can help you and your family maintain optimal health throughout all stages of life.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

That’s what I had done with my abortion research, and I had also studied newborn screening policies evolving. This is going to be harmful to them and their family at the end of life. And tell me if I’m wrong, but I sort of feel like you’re either providing medical aid in dying or you are not.

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