A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 21, 2025

And, as the NEJM article points out, there are no financial incentives to have nurses or other non-providers manage routine problems like hypertension in our current system. The drugs are better, but the way patients engage with doctors during office visits and hospital stays is unchanged.

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Patients Patient-Centered Hypertension Healthcare 130

Physician's Weekly

JULY 2, 2025

” She eventually went to the hospital, where she was told she was “in full-blown heart failure,” she said. In those circumstances,” Policar said, “before the MEC it was really hard to know how to manage those people.” ” “I feel like I’m underwater,” Henderson said.

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Nurse Practitioner Diagnose Complication Government 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 14, 2020

No prior history of atrial fibrillation – just hypertension and diabetes. Many parts of the country are currently experiencing dramatic surges in cases, with entire hospitals in New York being dedicated to the care of COVID-19 patients. Yet, managing uncertainty is the “name of the game” in diagnostic reasoning.

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Illness Diagnosis Emergency Room Diagnose 52

Today's Hospitalist

JUNE 7, 2025

Key takeaways: Hospitalists will increasingly have to manage inpatients taking GLP-1s. 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.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. He was describing his, like, 87 year old grandma who was placed on a low salt diabetic diet. Was it sodium hf?

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

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.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

And so there’s complexity in Understanding how each state manages this. So on the clinical side, people are really focused on how long do they have to be on the ventilator and managing that. So you mentioned the burden of chronic multimorbidity and sort of flogging through the diabetes and the hypertension.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109