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Why I don’t do “weight loss” as a primary care physician

Vida Family Medicine

From specialized obesity clinics to online services offering quick prescriptions, the options can feel overwhelming. This can be disheartening, leading to a cycle of stricter diets, increased frustration, and worse physical and mental health. If you've been trying to lose weight for years, you’re not alone.

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Causes of Brain Fog & How to Get Rid of It

AMMD

These include our physical environment, jobs, relationships, traffic, and unexpected events. Brain fog can also be a temporary problem if you are on a specialized high-fat diet such as the keto diet as your body shifts to ketosis. I battled thyroid disease in medical school after being diagnosed with Graves’ disease.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. And so, unfortunately, I think for a while, this condition, for many people, isn’t diagnosed until you end up seeing a cardiologist or a heart failure doctor who’s really honed in on this to say, actually, this is a heart failure syndrome. This is Eric Widera.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. So I really opted to specialize in lung cancer because I thought that was the appropriate population to build a supportive and palliative care research agenda. Jennifer: Thanks.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

Alex 02:20 (singing) “ Well, you wake up in the morning you hear the church bell ring and they march you to the table to see the same old thing ain’t no food upon the table ain’t no pork up in the pan but you better not complain boy, you get in trouble with a man let the midnight special shine a light on me. Is it just loss of.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. Eric 25:08 Super special. This is Eric W id era.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

A physician actually ended up in status epilepticus, like in the ICU with event like almost dead from seizures as a result of sleep deprivation and overwork. It’s dangerous and unsustainable; emotionally, physically, spiritually, financially for the patients—and for us. Say I’m having a special.

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