Vida Family Medicine

AUGUST 26, 2024

While losing weight is often suggested to lower the risk of chronic conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart disease, the risk of prescribing weight loss is overlooked. This can be disheartening, leading to a cycle of stricter diets, increased frustration, and worse physical and mental health.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Diabetes Chronic Condition 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

In our third segment, we explore Amy Linskys study that examined the effect of patient-directed educational materials on clinician deprescribing of potentially low-benefit or high-risk medications, such as proton pump inhibitors, high-dose gabapentin, or risky diabetes medications. Emily 06:11 Yeah, we definitely have a pill for every ill.

Specialization 119

Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 119

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. And one of the parts of that was actually doing physicals for the students and putting them in job placements. How to screen for hearing loss. I don’t see myself in that world.”

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

Hitchcock Family Medicine

APRIL 25, 2024

This means that if medical events or illnesses have surfaced in your immediate family since your last checkup, your doctor can calculate this information into your risk factors for other conditions. Let’s look at some reasons why preventative care is so important.

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Checkup Medical Family Care Physician Preventive Care 52

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary I always find cachexia in serious illness puzzling. In today’s podcast, we had the opportunity to learn from a renowned expert in palliative care, Eduardo Bruera, about cachexia and anorexia in serious illness. But what I tell them is, keep yourself physically active. I mean, come on.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

You know, she would have had 90 really good years, and she would have just gone into a coma with no blood pressure and died, you know, with, like, a day and a half of illness. So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones. His hands were gone.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98