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How to Choose the Best Hormone Doctor in Connecticut for Your Needs

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

Ask for Recommendations When you’re looking for a hormone doctor, people you trust can provide valuable recommendations. Your Connecticut-based primary care doctor is a good place to start, as they understand your health history and can refer you to a trusted hormone doctor that specializes in your condition.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. It can’t be diagnosed and adios. Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

What is primary care? Part 2 Here are some frequently asked questions I get as a Primary Care Provider. What is the meaning of Family Medicine? As the name suggests, a family physician can take care of your entire family – from the day of your birth (even before!)

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

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. Is your impression that HFpEFde is under diagnosed in older adults?

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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

GeriPal

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Chrissy Kistler, who is a geriatrician researcher in the Department of Family Medicine and Vision of Geriatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 50 to 70% of people who are diagnosed with UTIs probably don’t have a UTI. I appreciate that information. Is that right?

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. And then John, I’d love to hear from you starting off, you’re a palliative care doc, right? That dawned on me. This is what I saw and heard.

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