Dr. Zaar

MAY 20, 2025

Understanding Hormonal Weight Gain: Hormones are crucial in managing your metabolism, appetite, and fat storage. How Virtual Hormone Consultations Work: With online consultations, you can connect with licensed endocrinologists and hormone specialists from all over Canada. Are These Services Covered?

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2025

Reviews provide information about how well the doctor explains diagnoses and treatment options, and how well they manage ongoing care. When choosing a hormone doctor, ask if the doctor is accepting new patients, and how long the wait time is for a consultation. While reviews are useful, remember to take them with a grain of salt.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

While primary care providers are trained to manage conditions like diabetes, they rely on endocrinologists to provide more specialized care. You might get referred to an endocrinologist if your condition is complex or difficult to manage. They offer the support and personalized care you need to manage your conditions and stay healthy.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Unlike traditional insurance-based models, DPC eliminates the need for copays, deductibles, and other out-of-pocket costs. Key features of DPC include: Unlimited access to a primary care physician: Patients can see their doctor as often as needed, without worrying about insurance limitations. Why Choose Plum Health DPC?

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

Having not completed a residency program, my options were limited in hospital settings and other facilities run by insurance companies that require board certification, but I was lucky enough to find a physician owned and operated facility to work at. Urgent care work definitely isn’t for everyone though.

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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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Today's Hospitalist

JUNE 7, 2025

Key takeaways: Hospitalists will increasingly have to manage inpatients taking GLP-1s. ” That is why, she added, anti-obesity medications are such an important strategy in long-term management. A lot of plans require a prior approval for each dose, and insurance plans are making access really difficult.”

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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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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

In this first installment of a two-part series, “An Arm and a Leg” shares lessons from Bob’s experience navigating a maze of pharmacies and insurance companies to get his daughter the medicine she needs. Because… Dan: Bob’s new job meant… a new insurance plan for the family. He left without it.

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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.

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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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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

They also noted a distinction in telehealth practices between remote consultations in different states and using telehealth to treat patients who live nearby. The Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board received an overview of the team’s current projects. Society representatives departed at this point in the meeting.

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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 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. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal. Should they?

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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

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

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? And you could say the same thing about insurance companies. Insurance companies will pay for a lot of drugs that have really not a whole lot of evidence at a lot of costs.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

If you own and operate a nursing home and you’re taking people in, and you’re admitting new residents, what’s their accountability for how they manage compensation and quality delivery? Goal five is focused on quality insurance, so designing a more effective and responsive system of quality assurance. Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. But you know, we managed to work it through and people got used to it and throughout the duration of the trial. What is sludge?

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Healthcare, just the way healthcare is structured, that’s not something that’s feasible unless there’s a specific symptom management need that allows for more care, but just to provide simple care doesn’t exist. Eric: When I try to think about what a doula does, should I call it a consult? It just depends.

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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. But if the services that they require aren’t able to be provided within, they have Health Net as their insurance, so we contract with specialists in the community.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

But at any age, like, as Emily said, it is so important to pay attention to nutrition and healthy eating because it’s not just about, oh, chronic disease prevention or even treatment and management. But if your patient is not able to do those things, I wouldn’t say don’t have insurer.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

And then another, which was released under the Bush administration by a council with a different sort of philosophical Benton worldview which still managed to come to the same conclusion in support of a brain based definition, death. Insurance companies. Eric 10:26 Okay, that sounds better than harvest on a spectrum. Icus for beds.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

But that’s when his family began fighting another adversary: their health insurer, which decided the treatment was “not medically necessary,” according to insurance paperwork. Health insurers issue millions of denials every year. “They’re, like, not accountable to anyone.” Senate report.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

California lawmakers are poised to delay the state’s much-ballyhooed new law mandating in vitro fertilization insurance coverage for millions, set to take effect July 1. Gavin Newsom has asked lawmakers to push the implementation date to January 2026, leaving patients, insurers, and employers in limbo.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

He and Harvard colleague Celeste Royce have sued AHRQ, HHS , and the Office of Personnel Management over removal of the article. Stephen Parente, a University of Minnesota finance professor who said he consults informally with Trump health officials, said much of AHRQ’s work could be done by others.

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