Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. One of the primary tools used in diagnosing fever is the thermometer, an instrument that measures body temperature. What are the Management and Treatment Options in a case of fever? And I do this regularly.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It's the first point of contact for all your medical needs, from routine check-ups to managing chronic conditions. Patients who have a trusted primary care doctor are more likely to follow medical advice, manage their chronic conditions effectively, and ultimately enjoy better health outcomes. Why is it called a clinic?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. and consulting for Papa Health. So in this case consultations. Because now it requires another step to cancel the consult.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. But watch out! That’s what I’m waiting for, Alex.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal. Jessie: Yes.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. And how am I going to manage their pain? And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

And this case has been worked out the best in terms of the artificial intelligence suggesting diagnoses the clinician may have missed. So there’s some stuff out there like that, but also using AI to determine who at high risk and should get a palliative care consult. Alex: Mm-hmm. Like who is at high risk or low risk? Eric: Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why the field is moving away from prescribing methadone to bupenorphine; how to manage patients prescribed methadone for opioid use disorder who then develop serious and painful illness – should we/can we split up the once daily dosing to achieve better pain control? When to consider bupenorphine vs methadone? They’re often angry.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 73

GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

So we have a network of community hospitals and not every hospital has a strong ID consult service or some hospitals have one physician covering many, many patients, the whole hospital so may not have the bandwidth to cover everyone. So people at kind of those extremes where I would potentially be really changing their diagnoses.

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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And so there’s one study that used Medicare beneficiary data, and when they look at diagnoses for transgender men and women compared to cisgender men and women, we see around one in five have a diagnosis of dementia in the medical record for the transgender community compared to around, like, 1 in 7, 1 in 8 versus gender people.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Stop thinking the physical exam or the differential diagnose, whatever, and just be there. And that’s not the information that we’re looking for as much when we’re the palliative care consult team. ” And this comes up sometimes with palliative care’s consult, “What are you, hospice?”

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

And the hard part is, as a provider in palliative care, I actually have very little say of which hospice the individuals we consult to go to. How many patients is my hospice nurse case manager responsible for on any given day? Management, it’s hard. It feels somewhat random in some ways. Are you going to see a doctor are?

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. In fact from the time he was diagnosed, he passed away within two and a half weeks. Something about it wasn’t necessarily right in terms of her desire to be always with us.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). And so in that context, knowing that there was going to be some evolution of policy in this area, that’s how I got involved consulting with members, trying to understand the situation better, that type of thing.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Managing anger is hard, it’s really hard. And yet we don’t ever talk about how to manage it. And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. And we received this consult to assist with goals of care. And I’m wondering, why did this bubble to the top of topics to discuss today? Eric: Zero. Dani: Zero.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Healthcare, just the way healthcare is structured, that’s not something that’s feasible unless there’s a specific symptom management need that allows for more care, but just to provide simple care doesn’t exist. Eric: When I try to think about what a doula does, should I call it a consult?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Alex 10:53 Yeah, or like palliative care if they get a consult for whatever reason, but not trn consult, like standardized, you know, randomized to palliative care versus whatever they’re doing before.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. So we really wondered, you know, in modern palliative care practice, where we’re seeing patients a lot farther upstream than we used to, and we’re seeing patients with a wider range of diagnoses, we wanted to update, sort of. Alex 10:40 Wow.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

And then another, which was released under the Bush administration by a council with a different sort of philosophical Benton worldview which still managed to come to the same conclusion in support of a brain based definition, death. The first one, which was very influential on the writing of the law that was released in 1981.

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