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Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Christine Twining, MD, Chair, ABIM Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board The Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board , which meets twice a year and is responsible for oversight of policy and assessment in the specialty, held its spring meeting on April 1, 2025. The following is a summary of the spring meeting.

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health. Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. ” A month after the consult, Ellen died peacefully in her sleep.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

It was a patient that I had taken care of, actually, as a resident, who followed me into my growing private practice. He was a terrible diabetic. We consult all the time on patients who have advanced directors who say one thing and we’re in a situation where it’s clear they want to do something else.