Physician's Practice

JUNE 23, 2025

Reynolds Feature Article Your weekly dose of wisdom from the Physicians Practice experts. lightbulb doodle © Matias - stock.adobe.com With all the useful information available on Physicians Practice, it is easy to become overwhelmed.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

from MedStar Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, and colleagues retrospectively identified and evaluated 130 ankles from 122 patients with a mean follow-up of 5.9 percent) had adverse events, with medial gutter debridement (22 ankles; 16.9 Jonathan Day, M.D., The researchers found that mean postoperative values were 41.5

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 14, 2025

Early screening reveals these “silent” health threats that may otherwise go undetected for years until more serious heart issues such as chest pain, heart failure, or events such as heart attacks or strokes arise. As always, the decision requires thoughtful discussions between patients and doctors.

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AMMD

MARCH 13, 2025

These include our physical environment, jobs, relationships, traffic, and unexpected events. Hypothyroidism (an under-active thyroid) is the most common form of thyroid dysfunction, and 90% of hypothyroidism patients have Hashimoto’s. Sleeping well can also lower your risk for diabetes and heart disease.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes. Patients received brochures detailing the risks of gabapentinoids, nonpharmacologic alternatives, and a proposed deprescribing regimen (see here for the brochure ).

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 26, 2025

Reynolds Feature Video Introducing Neil Baum, MD, Professor of Clinical Urology at Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the author of multiple books.

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Family Physicians of St. Joseph

MARCH 14, 2018

My son, Zane, has Type 1 diabetes, treatment of which requires frequent blood work. For a monthly fee, Savage sees patients on an as-needed basis — as little or as often as he and the patient decide is necessary to keep patients healthy and happy. But what if we used health insurance only for major medical events?

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

I’d been working with persons who had diabetes and also caregivers and so forth, trying to go at the direction and realize as I look more and more at hearing loss, that it was totally unrecognized in clinical practice. And he liked some of what I was doing, which was really on diabetes and hearing loss.

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Today's Hospitalist

JUNE 7, 2025

Medical societies and hospitals are weighing in on periprocedural concerns in patients taking GLP-1s who need procedures or surgeries. That’s according to two internists who work closely with hospitalized patients who take GLP-1s. These medications are truly life-changing for many patients.”

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Center for Family Medicine

JUNE 13, 2025

The gradual buildup of plaque in the arteries often goes unnoticed until a major event occurs. During check-ups, patients should ask primary care providers about current blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Early warning signs of diabetes include increased thirst, frequent urination, fatigue, and blurred vision.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. When I see a patient? Matthew, I get the lyrics.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. The patient case. So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. Alex 03:33 Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I tell this story because these issues don’t typically register as more than a nuisance for clinicians, who frequently don’t understand why their older patient with osteoporosis is not taking a bisphosphonate. But our patients are walking with their feet, and adherence to bisphosphonates for osteoporosis is poor and decreases with time.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

And, you know, I really leaned in from my perspective as a primary care geriatrician to hearing from what my patients and their family caregivers are asking me for and asking me about, and they’re asking me about how they can prepare. And usually we want like 20 to 50 people to come to one of our group events. Yeah, I agree.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Ramona: Well, I’ve always been interested in health equity, always been interested in looking at disparities, and the disparities that I have looked at most often have been for patients at the end of their lives. The trainee said to me something like, “But I haven’t seen any geriatric patients yet.” Eric: Yes.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As Alex Lee says on our podcast today, all prognostic models will be wrong (in some circumstances and for some patients); our job is to make prognostic models that are clinically useful. I think this is a really difficult topic to talk about with patients. She has a point. Prognosis is inherently uncertain. Alex Lee: Sure.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

However, as noted in our editorial published with the donanemab trial , the modest benefits of amyloid antibodies would likely not be questioned by patients, clinicians, or payers if amyloid antibodies were low risk, inexpensive, and simple to administer. The patients continued to be followed. However, they are none of these.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Treatment strategy for type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM) often involves stepwise medication intensification, including the consideration of insulin therapy. The decision to initiate insulin is a critical aspect of diabetes management and is influenced by various patient-specific factors.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Go on, Anna.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In particular we spend a good deal of time talking about what this means for asymptomatic patients who may have an abnormal biomarker, which by the proposed new definition would mean they would now have Alzheimer’s disease. Diabetes, you see the same thing. You have pre-diabetes now. Eric: Wonderful. Jason: Oh, well.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 23, 2025

He says emergency providers working marathons, athletic events and police and fire training sessions have used everything from kiddie pools to garbage bags filled with ice, as well as chilled IV fluids, to cool people down. Thats when we really need to aggressively cool people off in an ice bath."

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

In order to heal her patients she first had to heal her ailing profession. And this is a medical system that needs to be disrupted because our medical system (as you know) is endangering the lives of patients right now—and physicians. I give you Dr. Pamela Wible. Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine.

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