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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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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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Red flags that you should always ask about include hematemesis, melana, dysphagia, and Unintentional weight loss, these all need further investigation for complications like esophagitis or another diagnosis such as EOE or peptic ulcer disease. So in the odd, rare scenario where you have a family member being treated for H.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We excluded deliveries complicated by known RFs for PTB (n=12,646). Further research is needed to help explain the underlying factors associated with rural residence that may have a more direct causal relationship with sPTB. Setting: IHC, Iowa City, IA. The final dataset included 16,974 deliveries among 13,339 mothers.

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Dr. Michael Bazel

APRIL 29, 2025

Testing should begin around age 35, or earlier if there’s a family history of cardiovascular issues. Early detection helps prevent complications and protects your partners. While some screenings, like blood pressure checks, are recommended annually, others may vary based on age, family history, and lifestyle factors.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Complications contribute to significant type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) morbidity. While preventable, many fail to receive timely treatment in primary care, leading the most vulnerable to accumulate complications. Results: We included 49,843 individuals in model 1.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2022

I care deeply about each and every one of my patients, and I do not want a difference in opinion to create a wedge in our relationship. These are intellectually interesting but often personally devastating to the patient and family involved. Medicine involves many extremely ethically challenging situations.

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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. Rather, most of us live and make decisions in relationship to one another. Nice to be here.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

It feels nearly impossible if you add another degree of difficulty, whether it be a crying interpreter or a grandchild from another state who shows up at the end of a family meeting yelling how you are killing grandma. 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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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. ” So there’s this element too, of what’s suffering in relationship to others, and can we compare? 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 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

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. I’ve seen patients post transplant when they start having complications. They are complicated. They’re complicated from a symptom standpoint.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

6-week Medical Student Externship - Medical Student Externship Report – Molly Mann, MS2 2023 July – August "My externship experience consisted of shadowing Dr. Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit.

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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

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.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. 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.

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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. Part of that, as you’re alluding to, Eric, is this relationship with authority and with rules and word association, teenage rebellion.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. 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? Eric 24:51 Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. 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. Welcome, Katie, to the GeriPal podcast. Katie: Thanks for the opportunity. Katie: Awesome.

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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

MAY 12, 2022

The book starts with the story of your grandfather with whom you lived, and there’s obviously a lot of family connection that you talk about in your patients, but also for yourself. And I’ll share that my own relationship with my father, who was a doctor, was a complicated one.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2022

There was no conversation with the patient or the family about this. And the medical approach to these patients was very limited, but people were treated in their homes, with their families, with enormous compassion and care, which is what was really the antithesis. And that did not seem right to me. And the focus was on their comfort.

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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

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. ” Whereas in the UK, you ask the same question.

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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. We are doulas for those with serious illness and those at end-of-life, just a longitudinal relationship, nonmedical support to provide presence. John: Yeah.

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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

JUNE 15, 2023

Matt: I was going to say that you said something very clearly that we’ve heard in our NIH funded study around AI based prognostication talking to patients and family members and so on, that there’s a comfort level when it’s being used to identify people who might benefit from palliative care or benefit sooner.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. 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. Alex: That’s right. Jennifer: Oh nice.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. And the truth is we don’t want, I don’t want any patient or family to perceive that when Brera goes to see me, there’s a second interest, a second gain. There’s something.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

And again, that can create a food desert, which can create health issues for patients and their families, so that’s an example of structural racism, but again, it’s baked into laws. Eric: And it’s even more complicated, right? We just haven’t looked at it. Eric: I’ve got a question for you, Ramona.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. By the time he got into us, the tumor grew, he had experienced, he was experiencing significant pain and so trauma, informed care and building a relationship with him was such a big part of the care. Naheed, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Naheed 36:55 Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Then in the OpenNotes work that I do, I was hired to take something complicated like transparency and patients having access to their full records in medicine, and then making that something that the lay public understood. ” I think that’s what I’m talking about with action, or it might be family leave policies.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

And it’s very traumatic obviously for the family and all of that and the team really. Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. But yeah, it’s complicated. This is what gets to be complicated for standardization. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. And it was like 29eds. Yeah, yeah.

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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. So one of the criticisms is that it’s an insult to the dignity of a loving relationship.

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