Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 22, 2025

Have a Diabetes Consultation Your first visit with a diabetes specialist may involve a physical exam. Learn Your Diabetes Treatment Goals The diabetes specialist will set treatment goals for your diabetes, based on what they learned about you during your consultation. Ask for More Support, if You Need It Managing diabetes can be hard.

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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. At PACT Endocrinology, a referral isn’t required.

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Tiny Physician

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

3], it was found that the resident doctors have to do multiple works simultaneously during their shifts and there had been multiple interruptions while doing each task which could result in errors in patient management. Jishnu Janardhanan (Resident Doctor) In a study done by Patricia et al. [3], patients show their frustration at doctors.

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PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Yes, and so thinking about these imaging modalities, I keep coming back to the fact that most of the time when we’re ordering one, it’s because we’re thinking about what’s next from a management standpoint for the patient. A lot of times when we consult a service, it’s a resident who might be at another hospital.

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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

JUNE 12, 2025

And sort of a few years ago, we would sometimes see referrals a bit later than we would have liked. We are Seeing referrals at an earlier time point, especially at a point that I feel that I can really help a patient. Is it normally the oncologist who’s making the referrals to you or do they come from people outside of oncology?

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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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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. We would make referrals to psycho oncology.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 106

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. And so I tried to get her actually to pain management, and I couldn’t.

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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

MARCH 6, 2025

How much of your training was focused on managing substance use disorder training and palliative care? As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. And that’s about half of our referrals. Naheed 15:56 2014.

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PEMBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Learn how to recognize and manage cases in the emergency department, ask the right questions to uncover inhalant use, and provide critical resources for prevention and support. Formulate effective strategies for identifying, managing, and preventing inhalant misuse in pediatric patients. References Perry H, Burns MM. Ganetsky M (ed).

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But that was a small pot of money and we went to first call a handy person, it was going to be $500 for a consultation, let alone the installation, and we were like, “This is absolutely cost-prohibitive. Same thing with kind of medication management. We’ll get four people done.” We do that in medicine all the time.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 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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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. It improves symptom management. Caroline: I’ve had a lot of n of one experiences, or just clinical experience one on one, where I’ve had to, as the geropsych consultant, encourage families and providers to stop the feeding tube.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Alex: And we’re so delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast Marian Grant, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner and marketing consultant, and she is at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. Look at the way they talk to the public, referral like HIV prep. Welcome back to GeriPal, Tony. Marian: Thank you.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

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. And the dad just totally lost control, major anger management issues. Michele: Thank you for having me. Michele: Yep. And in that one fell swoop, they lost their mom.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. It’s not just about physical symptom management. We won’t kill your patient.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 120

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I think a lot of times when we get consulted, we’re asked for the outcome, right? Get the hospice referral. Juliet: And so the question is like, how do we… There are these massive shifts because that’s not just about symptom management. Rachelle: One of the things, they are definitely ordered steps, right?

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And the thought of a huge number of our patients who had really come to rely on being able to do their visits from home or from a place that was close to home and getting medications that they’ve really come to rely on for symptom management was just really kind of terrifying for us and for them.

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PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

So what’s the evaluation and management for simple febrile seizures? How do we evaluate and manage them? Simple febrile seizures do not require neurology consults or admissions. And so briefly, let’s talk about that neurology referral and follow up. There’s a tenfold increase.

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