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. Then, they complete two to three years of specialized training in endocrinology, which prepares them to treat a wide range of conditions. What Conditions Do Endocrinologists Treat?

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 31, 2023

In addition, a pharmacist could partially fill a schedule II prescription issued to patients in a Long Term Care Facility or who have a terminal medical illness diagnosis. . § 1306.13(a). The Final Rule a. codified at 21 C.F.R. b)(5)(i)). (2) b)(5)(i)). (2)

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

Unfortunately among these alternative practitioners are many individuals who are selling tests, treatments, or supplements that are at best useless and expensive but at worst actually harmful. In the worst cases, the patient is dismissed as a malingerer or the symptoms are labeled as psychiatric when no one can find an answer through testing.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS. So as you mentioned, dementia, there’s some research that show about 86% or 93% of those individuals will get that. Raele: Yes, of course.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

So on today’s podcast we invite four brilliant individuals to talk about their perspective on how to change how we as a society and health care system partner with individuals with dementia. She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Attention to any toxidromes, any abnormal vital signs or mental status, eye findings, and neurologic examination provide the greatest help in narrowing the differential diagnosis. Laboratory evaluation should be based on individual patient history and exam. J Emerg Med. 2014;46(6):800-807 Santiago LI, Tunik MG, Foltin GL, Mojica MA.

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CDOCS

APRIL 7, 2021

<p><span style="font-size:14px;">Dental technologies are constantly being developed, and each clinician must decide which innovations best fit their individual practice needs. I pride myself being on the &ldquo;leading edge&rdquo; of technology but not the &ldquo;bleeding edge&rdquo; of technology.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. And so to develop that equation, they use the cohort of individuals and their data, their blood samples, creatine and other physical attributes. Devika: Thank You.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

In case you have missed it, click below to read- FEVER FAQ- Part 1 Fever Diagnosis: How is your health assessed? When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. Understanding the patient’s medical history is crucial for an accurate diagnosis.

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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. And my hypothesis is that’s because it’s no longer the individual managing their own diabetes, it’s the nursing home staff managing their diabetes.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Alex: We’re delighted to also welcome Greg Pawlson, who’s Senior Faculty at Lodestar Consulting & Executive Coaching and former President of the American Geriatric Society. We make a diagnosis. Beth, welcome to GeriPal. Beth: Thank you. Greg, welcome to GeriPal. It’s so different from therapy. We learn in context.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Noelle Marie 01:24 I think it really speaks a lot to my own personal journey and I’m pretty sure a lot of trans and gender diverse individuals also resonate with and it really speaks about our transition, celebrating our authentic selves, how society views us and how we view ourselves when we stand in front of a mirror.

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Vascular Physician

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

It is estimated that this affects up to thirty percent of individuals with chronic pelvic pain and is most likely to develop in women who have previously given birth. Symptoms of Pelvic Venous Disorders It is common for individuals to experience a variety of symptoms that could be confused with other health conditions.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

By diagnosis? 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. I have never myself called a palliative care consult as a trainee because we didn’t have one. And I practiced both on the palliative care consult team and in the ICU.

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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. You get a consult if you get a consult.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

A reader may miss a cancerous lesion if the image quality is poor, resulting in a false negative diagnosis, which could delay treatment and result in an avoidable death. Conversely, a diagnosis could be a false positive, which can occur when an otherwise normal tissue is erroneously read as abnormal. Your breast tissue is not dense.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Hypertensive emergency is a clinical diagnosis characterized by a sudden and severe elevation in blood pressure accompanied by signs of acute end-organ dysfunction. Evaluation consists of lab studies, including CBC, CMP, BNP, troponin, UA, UDS, TSH with reflex to T4, and urine pregnancy test for individuals with a uterus.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She is a member of the Clinical Genome Resource Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) Clinical Domain Working Group, where as a biocurator she assesses the pathogenicity of variants in IEM-associated genes to facilitate expedited genetic diagnosis for IEMs. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. Pediatr Rev.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

A short-term sore throat may resolve on its own — monitor symptoms or consult a primary care doctor. Their framework categorizes patients based on clinical indicators such as symptom severity, the likelihood of bacterial infection, and individual risk factors for complications. A doctor can help determine the cause.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

My favorite line from Emily’s paper: “Geriatric assent has not been widely adopted in clinical care, but bioethicists should advocate for this, as adoption of partial-involvement strategies can prolong the period in which individuals are (appropriately) engaged in decisions about their health care.” This is Eric Widera. Lynn: Sure.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. So the first thing, explain the diagnosis. They’re asking you for a consultation. What should I say? So you got to be better than AI.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Katie: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia. 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. It was Remember Me.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. And so to develop that equation, they use the cohort of individuals and their data, their blood samples, creatine and other physical attributes. Devika: Thank You.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

How do we see each of you as individuals who are having your own struggles? So you get to what the person individually might need around them, and last, how are you seeing this experience? Eric: Yeah. I wonder from a provider perspective, if you’re open to talking about your team. It was incredible. It’s a lot of work.

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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.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of. I think that consistency of what is the expectation of our roles is crucial in a lot of ways, but that role is determined by the individuals we’re serving. Eric: When I try to think about what a doula does, should I call it a consult?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

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. Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about palliative care for individuals with mental illness. Eric 12:11 And we consult psychiatry. Depending on your geography, who you are as an individual, the ethical parameter you’re considering. And I’ll say we were clinically at the VA doing inpatient palliative care consults.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. For those individuals, how do you think about that? And we’ve been consulted multiple times. And then we sign off and then eventually get consulted again because the team put him on IV Dilaudid. I think it is just about any clinician.

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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. Eric: And can I ask you, when individuals come into the hospice unit, again, you mentioned that their family, their friend, their friends are their family that are here.

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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 consisted of older individuals, mainly diagnosed in the hospital and with poorer COC. Study Design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort study.

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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.

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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.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. We started a clinic here in 2008 at the VA, and what we found was that, you know, our median time from consult to death before we started clinic was like 18 days, somewhere around there, like somewhere around two weeks. Eric 10:44 No, all consults.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

The law, SB 729 , requires state-regulated health plans offered by large employers to cover infertility diagnosis and treatment, including IVF. Amy Donovan, a lawyer at insurance brokerage and consulting firm Keenan & Associates, said the firm has fielded many questions from employers about the possibility of delay.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

But neither Kennedy nor President Donald Trump have explained why individual agencies such as AHRQ were targeted for cuts or indicated whether any of their work would continue. There are things we could learn to improve our care and get more timely diagnosis of cancer.” “What we’ve been doing isn’t working,” he said.

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