A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 11, 2025

A sore knee or an annual physical are like a closeup or a panorama. I don’t really need the details in order to know how to consider this patient’s risk for future cardiac events. It may look something like this: 40 year old male has a normal routine physical. We may only have 15 minutes with each patient.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered Medical Advice Screening 130

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

He was describing his, like, 87 year old grandma who was placed on a low salt diabetic diet. So I have a two and a half year old, and during my last pregnancy, I had gestational diabetes. If they’re frail, if they’re falling, if they have cognitive impairment, they’re at higher risk of adverse drug events.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Eduardo 25:39 I think that’s wonderful, Alex, because all our social and even religious events have metaphors of food. But what I tell them is, keep yourself physically active. Keep yourself physically as active as possible. It can be quite problematic in people with diabetes and so on. I mean, come on.

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