Center for Family Medicine

MAY 7, 2025

If getting enough sleep is not enough or energy levels are down, consulting a healthcare professional is advised. Take control of your health Diabetes is a manageable condition, but early detection allows for timely intervention. Changes in vision Blurred vision is a lesser-known but major symptom of diabetes.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

Powering Health, Protecting the Planet – Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Healthcare professionals have always been trusted voices on public health. PMC Environmental and Health Benefits – Lower Carbon Emissions : The healthcare sector is responsible for approximately 8.5% The use of medications in U.S.

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Vascular Physician

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

If you have arterial disease, please consult your physician before using compression therapy, as this may be contraindicated for some patients. Compression therapy during pregnancy should be used under the guidance of a healthcare professional. Frequently Asked Questions : What causes poor venous circulation?

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Dr. Michael Bazel

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Also Read: What Is Nutrition Counseling and How it Can Help You Achieve Your Weight Management Goals Who Should Consider Intermittent Fasting? If you have underlying health conditions or a history of disordered eating, consult a healthcare professional before trying intermittent fasting. However, it’s not for everyone.

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Center for Family Medicine

MAY 14, 2025

Effective arthritis relief includes lifestyle changes such as regular low-impact exercise, weight management, and a diet rich in antioxidants. Adding these 3 supplements can also help with managing joint pain. Seeking arthritic relief through dietary supplements is an effective way of managing the beginning stages of the disease.

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Rao Doctor

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Understanding the fundamental aspects of fever is crucial for effective management and treatment. Understanding the diverse causes of fever is essential for appropriate management and intervention, ensuring that the root issue is correctly identified and treated. We will learn more about Fever and its management in my next part.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

Additionally, he consults with federal agencies on mental health system design and practices. Dr.  The episode also explores how digital tools can help youth manage their mental health, while also noting the need for culturally relevant care providers. Disclosures The hosts and guests report no relevant financial disclosures.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

The company has expanded its palliative care services through partnerships with hospitals and other managed care providers, according to AccentCare CEO Stephan Rodgers. The post GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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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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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Here at UW Health, we call it our Swallow Service.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

So that’s one, this patient-centered geriatric assessment and management approach. Number four, again, structure and process that promotes early mobilization which may or may not require a formal OT and PT consultation. And then number five, really proactive care transitions planning out of the gate on day one.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 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. I think some of that depends on the kind of health system or hospital that you are involved with.

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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. If there were ever a time to join us, it is now.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

So you have the consultation. But two, a very close relationship with potentially the palliative care physician or the individual who’s Sort of managing their pain, because the simulation itself can be 20 to 30 minutes of lying in that specific treatment position. Did their pain management last throughout that entire session?

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. Fever in infants under three months, a fever lasting more than three days, or a fever in individuals with weakened immune systems should be promptly addressed by a doctor for appropriate management and treatment.

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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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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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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

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. However, there are “Red Flag” symptoms that require urgent evaluation and management.

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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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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

OCTOBER 10, 2024

DorAnne 30:25 I also wanna make a shout out for pain and symptom management with social work and chaplains. So we totally forget that all of us are symptom managers as well. And so we often have one person go in to do the initial contact, the initial consult, and it can be anybody from any of the professions. I don’t know.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t. Pain management wouldn’t come to the facility, and she was bedbound. And so it really got me interested in how we improve symptom management. Not just pain, but symptom management, then for people that are in a nursing home and that.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

It was around helping communication, and really focused on our nursing manual, and particularly around these guidelines for assessing and managing symptoms. So, the docs actually wrote orders for tests, medications, consults. And in their study, they had default palliative care consults for everybody, and there was no consent, right?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? I actually do some consulting work with a company called the Farmstand that’s based in a community called the Villages in Florida. Is that your feeling, too?

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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. We’re not trained to consider this to be part of pain management. Jessie: Thank you.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

Is the sort of task to manage. I mean, how do you negotiate that with the oncologist who is the one who consulted you, by the way, Eric, who does that go to? They’re asking you for a consultation. After a very long 1 hour consult, you’re exhausted. Who do you want to go to with this? They confirm patients DNI.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In recent years, pressures to decrease hospital length of stay and increase throughput, the rate at which patients are moved in and out of the system has contributed to a culture in many acute care environments where physical therapy functions primarily as a consultation service for discharge planning. Ann: My palliative care doc is great.

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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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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 then part of our role as folks in palliative care who as Katie mentioned, really try to help folks manage distress around serious illness. Two great videos on buprenorphine initiation. Transcript.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

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. Like who is at high risk or low risk? Whether or not be ICU and sepsis. Eric: Really?

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GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

And those of us who work in palliative care are more familiar with the 5ht3 receptor, which we use for nausea management. Due to this sense of allostatic overload, like you’re just overwhelmed and you don’t have the resources, the self efficacy or the self esteem to manage it. So 5ht2 was.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I’m just wondering, how do we get surgeons, and maybe, how do we teach surgical trainees to move away from this fix-it mentality into the space of deliberation where deliberation is actually invited and prioritized in the surgical consultation? People think of the phases of a typical clinical consultation. ” Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

And so there’s complexity in Understanding how each state manages this. Eric 13:00 I also love that too, because even on our inpatient ballot of care consult service, whenever somebody says that they’re unrepresented or they don’t have a surrogate, we never believe that until we usually look up.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

How much of your training was focused on managing substance use disorder training and palliative care? Naheed 24:31 So especially with the referrals that we get and the calls that we get from our non healthcare colleagues, they tend to be folks who are case managing people on the streets and supporting them. Naheed 15:56 2014.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. So those questions we ask when we’re doing a palliative care consult. ” So lo and behold, that’s how I met Thor. Just go to www.geripal.org.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. So that’s great. No, no, no.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

So even partnering with that, making sure that you have resources that are available to partner with folks who are experts, let’s say in hormone therapy, some of our endocrinologists, some of our primary care physicians, they might come to you, let’s say, for a geriatric consultation and memory loss.

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