Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

For physicians, nurses, medical assistants, and support staff, workplace violence (WPV) is now a daily hazard, inflicting physical injury, emotional trauma, and eroding the quality of patient care. Violence in hospital emergency departments (EDs) has reached crisis levels. The Warner Bros.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Pre-consultation tools are considered a promising way to support health providers and older adults in identifying multiple and often complex needs. Study design: Qualitative interviews were conducted with older adults (n=19) and health providers (n=17) in 4 family medicine clinics (2 rural and 2 urban) in Quebec, Canada.

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We can consult our case managers to evaluate options of living arrangements, of providing adult services, and to spend a few extra minutes with these patients, but they too are often overwhelmed with what's required from them in our busy ER. After the case management consultation, we were able to help place Kevin into a shelter.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 16, 2025

Hydration is surprisingly important in blood pressure management. How Dehydration Influences Blood Pressure Readings Your level of hydration directly impacts the accuracy of your blood pressure management screening. Be sure to hydrate well, especially during physical activity and time spent in warmer weather, when fluid needs spike.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 16, 2025

Hydration is surprisingly important in blood pressure management. How Dehydration Influences Blood Pressure Readings Your level of hydration directly impacts the accuracy of your blood pressure management screening. Be sure to hydrate well, especially during physical activity and time spent in warmer weather, when fluid needs spike.

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East Cary Family Physicians

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

At East Cary Family Physicians , we believe that awareness is the first step in managing your health effectively. Family History: A family history of prostate cancer can significantly increase your risk. Regular Exercise: Engage in physical activity to maintain a healthy weight and overall well-being.

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Center for Family Medicine

APRIL 21, 2025

Sleep is essential for physical and mental well-being. These changes can also help with weight management and cognitive function, potentially improving sleep disorders. Consult a doctor, sleep specialist, or therapist for the right diagnosis and treatment. Consider a healthier, balanced diet for better sleep quality.

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Vascular Physician

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Here is what you should know about CVI in order to manage your symptoms and improve your quality of life. In most cases, CVI can be effectively managed with a combination of lifestyle changes and compression therapy. It's estimated that CVI affects up to forty percent of people in the U.S.

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East Cary Family Physicians

JANUARY 30, 2024

As we embark on Glaucoma Awareness Month, East Cary Family Physicians is unwavering in our commitment to highlight the pivotal role of vision health, with a special emphasis on the early detection of glaucoma. Early detection not only facilitates effective management but also significantly reduces the risk of vision loss.

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Plum Health

AUGUST 30, 2024

Update: Click here to book a free 30 minute in-person consultation with Dr. Sharon or Dr. Mike to discuss affordable GLP-1 medication! Managing diabetes—especially as you get older—can be challenging physically, emotionally, and financially.

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Vascular Physician

DECEMBER 21, 2022

First, they will perform a physical exam, review your health history, and check your kidney function with blood and urine tests. Schedule Your RAS Consultation at The Vascular Institute When it comes to protecting the health of your renal arteries, there's no time to waste.

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Dr. Michael Bazel

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Also Read: 4 Tips to Keep Your Family Healthy During the Holidays Foods That Promote Prostate Health Fruits and Vegetables Fruits and vegetables are loaded with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that combat oxidative stress, which can damage prostate cells. Diets rich in anti-inflammatory foods can help manage symptoms.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

Simon is a pediatric addiction medicine psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a recent Commonwealth Fund fellow in health policy at Harvard University; and the medical director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network. 

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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 yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. Eric: And you can probably tell already, the topic at hand is diabetes management in late life.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Team members and families eagerly await your intervention to halt the seizure and understand its underlying cause. A careful history and physical examination are ways that we as providers can “see what’s going on inside the head.” ” Explaining this to families is paramount – sometimes your exam is a test.

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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.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. For instance, a family meeting or an update or communication with families. So, for instance, I do a psychosocial screen, I do a physical screen, I do screens in all the other domains.

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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. And you’re in the ICU family meeting, and it gets heated. Is the sort of task to manage.

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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! Who will emerge victorious?

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

From managing chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension to preventive care and health screenings, the clinic is known for providing patient-centered care. Whether you need a routine physical, vaccination, or management of a chronic illness, this clinic has you covered with a focus on holistic and individualized care.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. Tamra: I wrote this… Eric: Thinking that the perceived role for inpatient physical therapist is a discharge consultant.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

And so, three years of seeing over and over people having really difficult end of life experiences in the ICU, not being able to advocate for themselves, a lot of trauma for their families, I just thought, we have to do better than this. I was really passionate about helping the people and also their families. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

It did not change the frequency of palliative care consultation, the timing of such, ICU mortality, or six-month mortality. Kate: I think the main one for me being asked on the fly is that one of the nudged specialist palliative care consultation, which we know has limitations. Eric: So how do you put that all together?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

This episode will help you better prepare for and manage children with inborn errors of metabolism in the Emergency Department. Consider it a supplement to what you remember from Biochemistry and the instructions on the family’s laminated care plan sheet. So, importantly, you may not have a positive family history.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

” Somehow, there’s this signal that the patients and families had to pick up that maybe the surgeon wasn’t so enthusiastic, or if I just dump risk on them, maybe they’ll say, “I don’t want this.” What I need to navigate with that patient and their family, is it valuable to you? Every time.

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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.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult.

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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. 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.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

I actually like reading books and the physical,” and what the internet 2.0 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. We should build models to identify symptoms, to do proactive symptom management, and AI can totally do that.

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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. Gender expression is your physical outward manifestation of how you express your gender identity.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. Links: – Uncanny Valley post on Josh’s fantastic substack Notes from a Family Meeting.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. 80% died exactly where they wanted to and 83% were reconnected to family or friends through a psychosocial support system that we put into place. Yeah, yeah.

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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. 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.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. A good prescriber, a good symptom control manager. Balfour amount.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. We found their physical environment was drastically different; where those with low feeding tube rates had really a rather beautiful physical environment. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death. What might be contributing?”

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