Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Men newly diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer (LPC) have multiple treatment options available, each with potential effects on quality of life (QOL). Patients: Black and White men ≤75 years with newly diagnosed LPC, 2014 to 2017. Design: Longitudinal cohort study. Design: Longitudinal cohort study.

Diagnosis 130

Diagnosis Screening Diagnose Education 130

A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 9, 2025

In fact, personally, six months later, I started transitioning to a different job, the one I now work full-time in, doing housecalls and virtual visits for older and disabled patients. Medicare patients on a fixed income need to use their insurance if they still want to eat and heat their homes. Same thing for most people on Medicaid.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Insurance Diagnose Screening 130

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

Just like in the case of other medical specialties , disruptive innovations will have a huge impact on how dentistry will be practiced and how patients will take care of themselves in the future. For patients, it promises more accurate care and better outcomes. How about having a teledentist consultation?

Patients 126

Patients Treatment Plan Healthcare Medical Specialty 126

Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

One of the most rewarding parts of being a primary care physician is when I am able to work with a patient to help them find answers to unexplained symptoms they have been dealing with, sometimes for years! As a result, doctors often end up referring the patient somewhere else if they do not immediately know the answer.

Patients 52

Patients Primary Care Appointment Diagnose 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Recently published survey results indicate that more needs to be done to educate US adults about testicular cancer, particularly younger men. We are fortunate in testicular cancer that the vast majority of patients are diagnosed at an early stage,” said Dr. Dason. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J.

Education 52

Education Diagnose Patient-Centered Hospital 52

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

JUNE 2, 2025

Entry level roles typically don’t require education beyond a high school diploma or GED. Front office assistant: Also known as medical receptionists, front office assistants handle tasks like greeting patients, answering phones, and scheduling appointments. Completion of a medical assisting program is required.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Physician Primary Care 52

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 6, 2025

including in-demand jobs, education options, and career outlooks, can help you find a fulfilling position in the area. Some high-demand roles in New Haven County include: Physicians and specialists: Doctors are responsible for diagnosing and treating illnesses and injuries, as well as helping patients take care of their health.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Professional Education 52

Dr. Zaar

MAY 20, 2025

How Online Platforms Diagnose Menstrual Issues Most virtual platforms start with a comprehensive medical history form. Patients describe symptoms, cycle patterns, and other health concerns. Treatment Options Through Virtual Clinics Once diagnosed, treatment options vary based on the root cause.

Management 52

Management Appointment Lab Testing Consulting 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Rezigh presents a case of fever in a patient newly diagnosed with HIV to Dr. Woc-Colburn. His clinical interests include medical education and clinical reasoning. She is a renowned medical educator and has a wide range of clinical interests including tropical medicine, HIV, and fungal diseases.

Clinic 52

Clinic Education Diagnose Medical 52

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

The California-based firm, Second Sight , the German company, Retina Implant AG, and the French venture, Pixium Vision were the forerunners of the field, developing implantable visual prosthetics to restore vision to patients who are blind as a result of the rare condition of retinitis pigmentosa.

Diabetes 98

Diabetes Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Natasha Spottiswoode of a patient presenting for fevers and chills. Session facilitator: Youssef Saklawi The goal of this series is to provide greater access to subspecialty, primary care, and internal medicine-adjacent specialty education for learners worldwide.

Internal Medicine 52

Internal Medicine Primary Care Education Diagnose 52

Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 5, 2022

Primary care physicians take it upon themselves to get to know patients in person, which helps them attend to their needs. Preventive Care Primary doctors can offer preventive care to their patients, which typically includes check-ups and screenings to prevent them from contracting illnesses.

Primary Care Physician 52

Primary Care Physician Primary Care Doctor Provider Primary Care 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 20, 2022

After college, she worked at UCSF as a clinical research coordinator and patient navigator for women newly diagnosed with breast cancer, helping them prepare questions for their doctor and accompanying them to appointments. Her career interests include medical education, communication in medicine, and health equity.

Clinic 52

Clinic Internal Medicine Diagnose Education 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2024

He completed his undergraduate education in Pharmacy at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Driven by a deep desire to understand patient concerns, Hans wanted to go beyond pharmaceutical care. While in medical school, the virtual morning reports, Clinical Problem Solvers, unleashed his passion for solving complex patient cases.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Internal Medicine Education Hospital 52

Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

Dr. Smith shares the stories of several patients he met during residency and his early years in practice who illustrate the bad outcomes that accompany not attending to patient's emotions and focusing solely on their physical problems. The first few chapters discuss the problems with mental health care in the U.S.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health IT Primary Care Primary Care Physician 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 23, 2020

She will be a hospitalist next year and is interested in medical education, empowering women in medicine and improving care for inpatients with substance use disorders. He has a passion for practicing and improving medical education at all levels. He completed medical school at Baylor College of Medicine.

Internal Medicine 52

Internal Medicine Education Complication Diagnose 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

This is a peer-nominated group of academic clinicians renowned for their medical knowledge, teaching & communication skills, professionalism, and high-quality patient care. Some specific activities mentioned by the participants included patient-directed reading (e.g., NEJM , JHM , JGIM ).

Lab Testing 52

Lab Testing Clinic Education Clinical Practice 52

LEAD Physician

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Physicians must be leaders in their field to provide excellent patient care, manage a large team and coordinate between departments, and support their patient's overall health with information about prevention and maintenance. For example, a physician might be dealing with a patient who has just been diagnosed with cancer.

Relationship 52

Relationship Education Management Patients 52

Oasis Family Medicine

JANUARY 31, 2024

Rather than being used to treat specific diagnoses, LENS addresses underlying problem areas such as mood, cognition, motor skills, anxiety, pain, fatigue and performance optimization, as well as other underlying functional problems. Considering that nearly 9 out of every 100 U.S.

Utilities 52

Utilities Diagnose Family Medicine DO 52

ABIM

MAY 18, 2025

As a Latina IBD patient, I’ve come to understand that my experience has been shaped not only by the disease itself, but through the lens of culture, identity and the disparities that influence how patients, like myself, are seen, treated and supported. This burden of the disease is being felt by patients and healthcare providers.

Diagnose 40

Diagnose Diagnosis Healthcare Physicals 40

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

They support patients and clinical staff by handling the essential administrative tasks that keep healthcare facilities running smoothly. As a medical office assistant, some of your day-to-day responsibilities may include: Greeting and checking in patients. Confirming patients’ insurance coverage.

Medical 52

Medical Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered Healthcare 52

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

To diagnose and treat a patient, a healthcare professional listens to the patient, reads their health files, looks at medical images and interprets laboratory results. ” Patient points to lower abdomen. M-LLM (Translating for Specialist): “The patient is pointing to the lower abdomen.”

Healthcare 53

Healthcare Healthcare Professional Electronics Medical 53

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 19, 2020

She has a strong commitment to supporting underrepresented minorities in medicine, serving underserved populations, and creating better understanding of our patients and each other through storytelling and narrative medicine. anginosus group), and the patient was diagnosed with a bacterial brain abscess.

Medical Student 52

Medical Student Internal Medicine Patient-Centered Hypertension 52

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 22, 2025

Every year in Connecticut, about 17,000 adults are diagnosed with diabetes, a serious chronic condition. They can offer extra support, like a referral to a diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) program. PACT Endocrinology is currently welcoming new patients with diabetes.

Treatment Plan 52

Treatment Plan Diabetes Consulting Management 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 19, 2020

Dr. Anand Jagannath Dr. Anand Jagannath is a clinician-educator at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and hospitalist at the VA San Diego. The patient disclosed that he had recently consumed large amounts of calcium carbonate for his abdominal pain, and he was diagnosed with the milk alkali syndrome.

Internal Medicine 52

Internal Medicine Medical Student Patient-Centered Primary Care 52

Myriad Genetics

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In fact, in 2017 the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommended that every pregnant person be offered information on carrier screening and that all patients who are either considering pregnancy or are already pregnant should specifically be offered screenings for SMA and cystic fibrosis. 2004;128A(3):271-275.

Screening 52

Screening Families Family Diagnosis 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality. Nwamaka Eneanya and Jennifer Tsai to discuss the limitations and harms of race-based medicine in clinical practice.

Clinic 52

Clinic Education Clinical Practice Patient-Centered 52

Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 26, 2025

At Vida Family Medicine, I’ve helped hundreds of patients improve their blood sugar without extreme dieting or cutting out the foods they love. Pre-diabetes is a condition where your blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. What is Pre-Diabetes? The main culprit?

Management 52

Management Diabetes Family Medicine DO 52

Vascular Physician

JULY 11, 2021

What do patients with Raynaud's Phenomenon experience? Patients can experience numbness, aching, pain, clumsiness of motor skills of the hand, and sensations of "pins and needles". How is Raynaud's Phenomenon diagnosed? If a patient answers yes to all three of these questions, then they most likely have Raynaud phenomenon.

Referral 52

Referral Mental Health Patients Diagnose 52

PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Optimizing Advanced Imaging of the Pediatric Patient in the Emergency Department: Policy Statement. Pediatrics. 2024;154(1):e2024066854.

Families 101

Families Family Hospital Patient-Centered 101

East Cary Family Physicians

OCTOBER 20, 2023

It’s crucial to recognize the prevalence of breast cancer to underscore the importance of awareness and education. Most breast cancers are diagnosed in women over the age of 50. We encourage all our patients to perform monthly self-exams. While it primarily affects women, men can also develop this disease.

Family Physician 40

Family Physician Families Family Screening 40

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 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.

IT 120

IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 120

GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

When I’m on service these days there is inevitably a moment when a resident says “Patient so-and-so is on X” – and I have absolutely no idea what X is. Alex: And we are delighted to welcome Rasheeda Hall, who is a physician scientist in the division of nephrology at Duke University School of Medicine, and sees patients at the Durham VA.

Complication 97

Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 97

CDOCS

MAY 4, 2021

Without this additional skill set and post graduate training I simply could not deliver the results that my patients deserve. & A healthy 46-year-old patient who has lived for over 30 years with missing bilateral maxillary incisors desired a fixed solution to his problem.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Patients Manufacturing Clinic 52

GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Certainly education, quality of education is extremely important. Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health. Like, education, is it that it prevents you from getting Alzheimer’s disease, or does it just give you more reserve so Alzheimer’s peeks out later?

Physicals 86

Physicals IT Hypertension Education 86

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. Gastroesophageal reflux disease is when the patients have severe symptoms that persist and cause long term issues.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. You wrote about how when it comes to talking about patients with dementia, they’re rarely portrayed as resilient.

Community 101

Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101