A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 21, 2025

We are being crushed by mandated screenings for everything from obesity to domestic abuse ( see my post “ Brief is Good ”). 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.

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Patients Patient-Centered Hypertension Healthcare 130

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. Why would CBT work for neuropathic pain and diabetes differently than it would work for neuropathic pain and cancer? Why would that be? Katie: Yeah. I have so many thoughts.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So you mentioned the burden of chronic multimorbidity and sort of flogging through the diabetes and the hypertension. Patient just got discharged from the hospital, just coming back from the skilled nursing facility. But I think the most important thing is just to, to recognize, to ask these types of questions.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109