East Cary Family Physicians

JANUARY 30, 2024

This thorough examination involves eye care professionals using drops to dilate pupils, allowing for a detailed assessment of the optic nerve, intraocular pressure measurement, and visual field evaluation. Consult with your primary care physician before starting a new workout routine, ensuring it aligns with your specific health needs.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 26, 2025

Pre-diabetes is a condition where your blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. Schedule a visit with Vida Family Medicine to get personalized, compassionate care that puts you at the center of the plan. You can call the office or schedule a consultation here.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Today we learn more about coaching from 3 coaches: Greg Pawlson, coach and former president of the American Geriatrics Society, Vicky Tang, geriatrician-researcher at UCSF and coach , and Beth Griffiths, primary care internist at UCSF and coach. Eric: … in geriatrics as a primary care doctor? Beth: Thank you.

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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. Slightly a shift in more patients diagnosed with kidney disease or now their GFR looks lower so now there’s different concerns regarding prescribing medications.

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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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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

SkinIO , Scanoma , Miiskin , FirstDerm , Direct Derm , iDoc24 , and SkinVision all work based on the same principle: they promise patients the option to self-check their symptoms and then to connect to a dermatologist online for consultation within a very short period of time. Cureskin aims to help alleviate the situation.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

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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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. Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

When should people get palliative care? We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. And palliative care was as a program was just growing at Penn moving from just consult hospice to actually having a team when I was training. It’s this really busy consult there.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Direct primary care offers you and your family top-notch health care, and so much more.like a high patient and provider satisfaction with an improved quality of care. The practice doesn't depend on the insurance company to say whether they will pay for a certain procedure or a particular test, and how much.

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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. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

If somebody has cancer and they’re recently diagnosed, somebody has cancer and they’re undergoing active treatment, somebody has cancer and they’re in early remission, now they’re a year or two years, three years, four years out and they still have pain. Jessie: Yes. And then, looking at- Eric: Wow. So, one out of 10?

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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

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. Slightly a shift in more patients diagnosed with kidney disease or now their GFR looks lower so now there’s different concerns regarding prescribing medications.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. Today, we talk with Bernie Lo, prominent bioethicist and practicing primary care internist, and Laurie Dornbrand, geriatrician at the IOA On Lok PACE, about the legacy of Nancy Curzan.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Whenever I take care of a patient, I see myself as a family practice doctor, but I’ve been a hospitalist, I’ve been a primary care doctor, and I’ve done palliative. We have one doula who is really well-trained and well experienced in advanced care planning, and that’s kind of her thing that she does.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Individuals living in the community aged 65 and older, diagnosed with SMI, who received a first dementia diagnosis between January 2013 and December 2015. Group 1 consisted of older individuals, mainly diagnosed in the hospital and with poorer COC. Yet, late diagnoses and faster decline cannot be ruled out.

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

And the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. And then, this little mini consultant.

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