Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Leonard Calabrese, DO, Paras Karmacharya, MD, MS, and Adam Kilian, MD, break down why giant cell arteritis (GCA) demands immediate action, explain how to confirm diagnosis quickly, and what same-day treatment options like upadacitinib (Rinvoq) mean for patient care. But treatment first, securing the diagnosis is secondary and often delayed.

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Management Diagnosis Patient-Centered Patients 59

AMMD

MARCH 13, 2025

Brain fog is not a medical condition or a diagnosis. These include our physical environment, jobs, relationships, traffic, and unexpected events. I battled thyroid disease in medical school after being diagnosed with Graves’ disease. Sleeping well can also lower your risk for diabetes and heart disease.

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IT Medical Patient-Centered Relationship 130

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And so, unfortunately, I think for a while, this condition, for many people, isn’t diagnosed until you end up seeing a cardiologist or a heart failure doctor who’s really honed in on this to say, actually, this is a heart failure syndrome. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. Eric 13:28 Thank you. What is GDMT?

Primary Care 114

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 114

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

There is a lot to digest with these draft clinical guidelines but the big change from the 2018 guideline is moving Alzheimers to a biological diagnosis (biomarker evidence only) not just for a research framework but now from a clinical one. And we’ve been diagnosing it at Penn. Jason: So this drug upfront is a bit of work.

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Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So if you can think about certain decisions like continuing to screen for certain cancers like colon cancer or breast cancer, or how strict you should control diabetes or blood pressures. And really providing these estimates of how long a person has to live affects a lot of the decisions we have to make clinically. Alex, what other decisions?

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IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

If you are interested in learning more about the draft guidelines and the response from AGS to these guidelines, check out the following links: Revised Criteria for Diagnosis and Staging of Alzheimer’s Disease: Alzheimer’s Association Workgroup AGS’s response to the revised criteria Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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IT Clinic Illness Hypertension 117

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

It’s just a trash can label—not really even a diagnosis, a made-up term that is used as psychological warfare on physicians to control us. A physician actually ended up in status epilepticus, like in the ICU with event like almost dead from seizures as a result of sleep deprivation and overwork. Housewives were burned out.

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Clinic Nurse Practitioner IT Medical 246