Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We identified difficult decisions in terms of diagnosis, treatment, daily living, and consultation and stratified results using respondents’ most difficult decision. We found thirty-six difficult decisions related to medical consultation, diagnosis, treatment, and daily life.

Management 130

Management Primary Care Primary Care Physician Consulting 130

Mesa Family Physician

APRIL 15, 2025

Always consult a healthcare professional for accurate diagnosis and treatment options that suit your lifestyle. Allergy testing can help bring clarity and control to your health. Whether you’re exploring options through your provider or considering an at-home kit, understanding the process is the first step.

Asthma 100

Asthma Healthcare Professional Integrated Care Referral 100

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Constipation is a clinical diagnosis and does not require testing, yet as many as 70% of children who are given a diagnosis of constipation in the emergency department have an abdominal x-ray completed. The diagnosis of constipation should be made based on a good history and clinical exam.

Diagnosis 122

Diagnosis Diagnose Hospital Clinic 122

Plum Health

MAY 19, 2023

Join the Plum Health DPC Family Today Join the Plum Health DPC family and start enjoying a fresh, personalized approach to healthcare. This blog post is a general informational guide and does not replace professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Insurance Medical Advice Healthcare 52

Center for Family Medicine

APRIL 21, 2025

Consult a doctor, sleep specialist, or therapist for the right diagnosis and treatment. If these fail, consulting specialists and attempting talk therapy can help. The post Sleep Disorders: Improving Rest For Better Overall Health appeared first on Center for Family Medicine - Sherman Texas.

Consulting 52

Consulting Individual Physicals Chronic Disease 52

Center for Family Medicine

MAY 21, 2025

If something feels off, erring on the side of caution and consulting a doctor is the best course of action. Many GI conditions, such as Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and celiac disease, are manageable with early diagnosis and proper care.

Complication 52

Complication Chronic Condition ER DO 52

Vascular Physician

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Other factors that could make you more likely to be affected by RAS include: High blood pressure High cholesterol Diabetes Smoking Unhealthy diet Men over the age of 45 and women over the age of 55 Obesity What Are the Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Complications? In most cases, RAS does not exhibit any noticeable signs or symptoms.

IT 52

IT Complication Appointment Diagnose 52

Priority Physicians

JANUARY 20, 2025

In our direct primary care setting, we take the time to deep-dive and explain options to our patients so they’re comfortable with a diagnosis and treatment plan that might not require an X-ray. Maybe they think it’s time to consult an orthopedic surgeon for immediate joint replacement. Scans are expensive and require scheduling.

Management 52

Management Primary Care Physician Primary Care Patient-Centered 52

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

You can schedule a consultation if you want personalized care for conditions like diabetes, thyroid disorders, adrenal disorders, bone health issues and more. Ask family and friends: If you have family members or friends who’ve been treated by an endocrinologist, ask them to recommend a good endocrinologist in your area.

Board-Certified 52

Board-Certified Insurance Primary Care Diabetes 52

PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Focusing a lot on when to image, when not to image, and how to communicate imaging decisions effectively with families.

Families 101

Families Family Hospital Patient-Centered 101

Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

If there are specific conditions you are worried about based on your family history or Googling or social media, write these down too. Ask questions: Ask what the doctor thinks are potential causes of your symptoms (this is called the differential diagnosis) and what they think is most likely.

Patients 52

Patients Primary Care Appointment Diagnose 52

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The diagnosis of a virus illness is generally made clinically with a history and clinical exam and does not require confirmatory testing. Messaging for patients and families When children have a viral respiratory illness, it is usually pretty self evident based on their symptoms e.g. runny nose, cough, congestion.

Patients 52

Patients Illness Hospital Management 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Anne: Is there a movement? I love them.

Community 101

Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. What is the role of the family caregiver system, how they play a role? We don’t need to check sugars all the time,” that also is a shock for patients and families.

Diabetes 73

Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Families 73

Edge Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Healthcare has evolved, and patients now have more choices than ever for medical consultations. Edge Family Medicine , serving Upland, Montclair, and Rancho Cucamonga , offers both telemedicine and in-person visits , ensuring you get the right care when you need it. Mental health consultations , including therapy and psychiatry.

Telemedicine 130

Telemedicine Family Medicine DO Chronic Disease Management 130

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. Should you stop at “no?” Anne Kelly: Hi there. Nice to be here. Lynn: Sure. Anne Rohlfing: Yeah.

Family 97

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 97

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

By diagnosis? But definitely always had the bug to be the one to jump into the family meetings in the ICU, lead them. 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. By prognosis?

Consulting 99

Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis Referral 99

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. So the first thing, explain the diagnosis. And you’re in the ICU family meeting, and it gets heated.

IT 132

IT Illness Families Family 132

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! Alex 01:06 Yeah, go in person.

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Instead, what if your surgeon told you that the operation she was discussing could help with only 4 things: live longer, feel better, prevent disability, or obtain a diagnosis? And, what if your surgeon openly discussed the expected ‘bad stuff’ of post-operative recovery, instead of rotely reciting a list of possible complications?

IT 128

IT Families Family Patient-Centered 128

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Consider it a supplement to what you remember from Biochemistry and the instructions on the family’s laminated care plan sheet. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. So, importantly, you may not have a positive family history. You can contact her via email at egroopman@childrensnational.org.

Consulting 59

Consulting Individual Families Family 59

GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

It is really difficult for the patients and the families. They do choose to rely more on their family and parents in ways that might feel like a step backwards and is yet, still developmentally appropriate and autonomous. Eric: Yeah. I wonder from a provider perspective, if you’re open to talking about your team.

Families 83

Families Family IT Illness 83

GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Now actually suggesting perhaps that you missed a diagnosis that you should have considered? 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. Eric: Yeah. And I think that’s where it gets really interesting from the standpoint of ethics.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 99

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. If we think of discrimination, how people are treated by their biological family. Caregivers too.

Individual 85

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 85

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. And we’ve really tried to serve that hospice mission of serving the patient and the family.

Families 132

Families Family IT Community 132

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

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. John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. Eric: When I try to think about what a doula does, should I call it a consult? That dawned on me.

Provider 117

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

So for those of you listening via YouTube, here’s the live version for those of you who are listening on the podcast, you’re going to get my prerecorded version with lots of loops and I’m doing consultation with my new music teacher who’s a music producer in LA. Alex: So we’ll see what these come out like.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

So when we encounter anger clinically, when we’re in an encounter with a patient and their family, what are perhaps three steps, and we have the three step model for how we can look within ourselves and respond. What feelings do we have toward the patient and toward their families? I wish they were just a diagnosis.

Patients 109

Patients IT Families Family 109

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. Have you had a family history of substance use disorder? Most of our population has trauma.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. When we think about palliative care delivered here, like individuals with chronic pain, non-serious illness chronic pain, non-life threatening illness, oftentimes if we get consulted on them, we don’t even see them, may just be discontinued in most palliative care places.

Community 115

Community IT Relationship Healthcare 115

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

What happened is that firstly, in terms of my clinical background, my background is psycho-oncology, so that’s working with patients with cancer and their families, including when they’re going through periods. Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

So in those cases, can we adopt an approach to mental health care that centers primarily around quality of life of patients and their families? Eric 12:11 And we consult psychiatry. But some of the nuance I would want to point out is that, like Brent mentioned, first of all, this is not a diagnosis. Ptsd, depression, anxiety.

Illness 101

Illness Mental Health IT Patient-Centered 101

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

I actually do some consulting work with a company called the Farmstand that’s based in a community called the Villages in Florida. I mean, I think, you know, people talk about withdrawal syndrome and it is an official DSM for diagnosis, but I’m not sure it’s. Aren’t they asking you, what are you doing, mom?

Medical 98

Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 98

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe individual characteristics and healthcare use in older adults with SMI across home care services (HCS) profiles before and after the first dementia diagnosis. Group 1 showed greater HCS use after the index date, both compared to itself before the diagnosis and to Group 2.

Diagnosis 130

Diagnosis Healthcare Illness Diagnose 130

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

For the foreseeable future, it’s going to be right 90%, 95%, 85%, so the safety system, of course, will be, the AI says something, makes a recommendation or gives you a draft diagnosis or drafts your note, and then, the failsafe is, the doctor reads it over. I’m connecting. This is GPT-4. “Hi, GPT-4. ” Alex: Wow.

Electronics 139

Electronics IT Patients Healthcare 139

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119