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.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

It’s more complicated than that. Approach them with a non‑judgmental, ongoing dialogue about their reasons for use, which can reveal underlying mental or physical health concerns. We need to engage in conversations about what can harm and what can help. The healthcare community cannot take an “all bad or all good” view of cannabis.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Who do we have with us today?

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33 Charts

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is the discovery of problems during physical exam and endoscopy. Alot of chronic and primary care is responding and reacting to changes in the status quo. It’s complicated when we can’t identify what our job is. Breaking my job down into different roles I got to thinking about what I do on a daily basis.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As you know, our population is aging at a rapid speed and older, adult older persons is no longer cared for only by a geriatrician or a primary care physician. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. One of your articles addresses that.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Physical activity is a big one. But I would say that in terms of education, it’s really complicated because it’s so confounded by socioeconomic status and so many social determinants of health. If you’re physically active, you’re probably going to sleep better and your vascular stuff is better.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). Maybe even had come in with a complication. So acupuncture, Tai Chi, Yoga, mindfulness and physical therapy, chiropractor. Eric 26:43 And this is in primary care, right?

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

You just got to take a good history and do a physical examination, especially when the symptoms are typical, like regurgitation, heartburn, or epigastric pain in an older child or adolescent. Again, otherwise the diagnosis is based on history and physical examination. You want to take a good history on feeding or dietary habits.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Alex 00:30 And we’re delighted to welcome Alison Huang, who’s a primary care doc and researcher and professor of medicine, urology, and epi-biostats at UCSF in the division of General Internal Medicine. George, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. George 00:28 Hi, guys. Nice to be on. Alison and I go way back. Eric 28:48 Yeah.

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Dr. Michael Bazel

APRIL 29, 2025

In this guide, we’ll walk you through the essential men’s health screenings, how often they’re needed, and why choosing a skilled primary care doctor in Valley Village — like Dr. Bazel — can make all the difference in your long-term health. Early detection helps prevent complications and protects your partners.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Regular visits to a primary care clinic can make a world of difference in your overall health. Your ongoing appointments help foster a strong patient-doctor relationship , making it easier to discuss your concerns and receive personalized care. Building a relationship with your primary care doctor should be a priority.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

The Hidden Benefits of Regular Check-ups You Might Be Missing Many residents of Mesa and the surrounding Arizona communities don’t realize that preventive care goes far beyond just “checking the box” for your annual physical.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Most sore throats heal on their own, but severe cases may require urgent care. Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. If your symptoms get worse before your appointment, you may need to go to urgent care.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

The physics and mathematics that went into radiation therapy planning. Eric 04:49 Drew me to the field physics and math. And, Emily, I got to ask you, you’re a palliative care doctor. But there are times that a primary care physician or an internal medicine physician may make the referral. Anish 04:13 Yeah.

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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. ” As a physical therapist, is this new news or- Alex: Are you like, “Duh”? laughter] Carmen, welcome to the GeriPal podcast!

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

But often what we’re talking about is this experience that we can describe physically inside of our body, the sensation that we’re having as we’re anticipating that things may go wrong or badly in some kind of way. So it tends to be future oriented and tends to show up as a physical sensation in our body.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

David: People with these illnesses suffer from persistent symptoms, poor quality of life, depression, anxiety, despite all the great things we do and all our colleagues in those specialties and in primary care and geriatrics. David: We used the VA specific care assessment needs score, which- Eric: Oh, the CAN score. Eric: Yeah.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, where the derailment occurred, have pressed the government to do more to answer questions about the mental and physical health effects of the disaster — from post-traumatic stress to cancer. She called the NIH news “a complicated mix of emotions,” CNN said. “We

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. And the primary care provider had assumed he was no longer driving, I think. Those things do just accumulate with age.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As you know, our population is aging at a rapid speed and older, adult older persons is no longer cared for only by a geriatrician or a primary care physician. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. One of your articles addresses that.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge. At the end of the day, I lamented that physical, occupational, and speech therapists aren’t more tightly integrated with palliative care teams.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

Eric: But if we’re using organ donation example, there are really no physical benefits for the organ donor. It means that we’re still having those one-on-one conversations between primary care providers and individuals who are vaccine hesitant to try to educate them and understand and respond to their concerns.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

To start with assessing all these syndromes and palliative care related problems and geriatric syndromes, so that we can create interventions that allow people to receive the cutting edge therapies. And then the duo, physical and cognitive function, those are the seven that… Alex: Oh, that’s a good way of remembering it.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

And in my medical training, becoming a primary care doctor, I realized that older adults, women and men were having a lot of these same symptoms. Eric: So this is a complicated pathway, right? The redness and on their physical exam they’ve got new redness on their leg. And so that was one, very interesting to me.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Alex: And joining us via Zoom, we have Charlotta Lindvall, who is a palliative care physician researcher who studies the intersection of natural language processing and communication data at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, where she also works in clinical informatics. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Charlotta. Charlotta: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care. They’re more, more interested in relationship centered care than the fancy medicines that you’re. They want a care model that’s flexible, not rigid. How do you actually physically find them if that’s the case?

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

I am wondering whether it’s the conversations and preparation that’s primary care providers and outpatient providers are having with a lot of these patients and families to either prevent an ICU admission or potentially address their goals, such that they don’t go into the ICU. That’s a great question.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Tom: So we did this study because patients who go through the stem cell transplant process face a lot of misery in terms of physical symptoms, psychological distress, anxiety, depression, and even a risk of PTSD afterwards, sort of like a medical trauma, you might think of it. I’m going to go to stem cell transplants.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We have palliative care who gets what, what goes, where. That gets really complicated as well. When you go to need, palliative care may be best for some needs. Or there’s physical symptom needs. There’s end of life care needs. And we keep on bringing up primary palliative care.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Sydney 00:41 Thank you.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Don 13:50 Well, you know, I think one of the issues, though, when you ask about prevalence data, especially, say, in the oncology world, not only does it matter about how you ask the questions, but because it’s such a complicated topic, people may infer very different things as to what you’re talking about. Sharon 15:21 Right.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Tertiary Prevention: Managing Existing Conditions Tertiary preventive care focuses on managing existing chronic diseases to prevent complications, improve quality of life, and reduce the negative impact of disease. These measures are taken after a disease has been diagnosed.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We had, since the late seventies, a home-based primary care program. And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. We relied on our clinical experience as geriatricians, that home-based primary care experience.

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