The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

There are widely varying figures, ranging from 66% to 90% depending on the source of information.) It can diagnose six types of common skin conditions – pimples, acne, scars, dark spots, pigmentation, and dark circles. Here, we collected the top dermatology apps to aid your digital skin care.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. One of the primary tools used in diagnosing fever is the thermometer, an instrument that measures body temperature. This information can help pinpoint possible causes of illness and guide further investigations.

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Diagnosis Management Illness Diagnose 130

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Navigating the healthcare system can be daunting, especially when you're unwell or caring for someone who is. This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. Regular check-ups ensure early detection of health issues.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

There are a lot of old myths out there about managing urinary tract symptoms and UTI’s in older adults. Then we chat with Scott Bauer, internist and researcher at UCSF, about how to assess and manage lower urinary tract symptoms in men. 50 to 70% of people who are diagnosed with UTIs probably don’t have a UTI.

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals.

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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. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. I have so many questions, and I promise we’re going to get to the management of anxiety and serious illness. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

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? Was it sodium hf?

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. And what should we be doing as far as assessment?

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Charlotta: Yeah, I think it will be in reducing the need to spend so many hours on documentation and looking through the EHR for information. And this case has been worked out the best in terms of the artificial intelligence suggesting diagnoses the clinician may have missed. The information there and you limit it in that way.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Because I read every national guideline around palliative care and each one says we should be identifying and managing psychological and psychiatric aspects of serious illness.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Essentially we’re testing the early integrated palliative care model, which is monthly visits with a specialty trained palliative care physician or advanced practice provider for patients who are diagnosed with advanced non small cell lung cancer. And I would say we weren’t doing training on symptom management, for example.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Why the field is moving away from prescribing methadone to bupenorphine; how to manage patients prescribed methadone for opioid use disorder who then develop serious and painful illness – should we/can we split up the once daily dosing to achieve better pain control? When to consider bupenorphine vs methadone? That’s what we do.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. They supported patients, they gave them a holding environment, they did symptom management, yada, yada, yada, like all the things we know palliative care clinicians do.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

We invited three geriatricians and memory care doctors, Nate Chin, Sharon Brangman, and Jason Karlawish, to talk about this question and many others swirling around on how to safely prescribe these drugs and manage patients on them (like what to do about anticoagulation). And we’ve been diagnosing it at Penn.

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Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Alex 00:20 Today we’re delighted and honored to welcome Eduardo Bruera, who is one of the biggest symptom management gurus, if not the biggest symptom management guru in palliative medicine.

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Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

Ken 12:14 I’ll remind you, Nancy, that this is an honor for companies that manage to make lots of money despite having a product that’s worthless or doesn’t. And this complete lack of attention to the real needs of persons with dementia is really kind of a shameful part of US healthcare. Eric 29:17 Yeah, so.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And so there’s one study that used Medicare beneficiary data, and when they look at diagnoses for transgender men and women compared to cisgender men and women, we see around one in five have a diagnosis of dementia in the medical record for the transgender community compared to around, like, 1 in 7, 1 in 8 versus gender people.

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Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 85

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia. Nurse case management, social worker case management, medications, medical equipment, a home health aid, all that stuff goes away. If yes, was it more, less, or the right amount of pain management? Where do we go with all of this information?

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Family Families IT Patients 106

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. Stop thinking the physical exam or the differential diagnose, whatever, and just be there. It’s going to feel like they’re in free fall.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

How many patients is my hospice nurse case manager responsible for on any given day? Management, it’s hard. And even up to a year out across diagnoses, every diagnoses including neurodegenerative diseases, costs less for those enrolled in hospice compared to not. Are you going to see a doctor are? Who sees you?

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IT Provider Patients Families 113

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. We can talk about the informal and the formal differences in expansion later.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Because it suffers from an informative censoring problem. Did you have access to any information? ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Consulting Hospital Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Managing anger is hard, it’s really hard. And yet we don’t ever talk about how to manage it. Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice. And also the whole potential psychiatric diagnoses. Dani: Yeah, good question. Eric: Zero. Dani: Zero. Eric: Zero. Eric: Yeah.

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Patients IT Families Family 109

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

And then, I did a lot of introspection and realized that I’ve actually been doing this for folks in an informal way, family church members and friends, but I didn’t do it so well with my own mother. ” I spent 32 years in information technology, would you believe, and switched over to this full time a few years ago.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

We published a nice piece, I think it was in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. And a moral compass that’s informed by understanding that the world isn’t the way you see it necessarily. We examine, we diagnose, we fix. We began this here in Winnipeg. ‘I want everything.'”

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Eric 16:38 So everybody was diagnosed with an advanced lung cancer sometime in the last twelve weeks and then they were randomized. It’s not just about physical symptom management.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. Eric: And Susan?

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But I think that would be a really interesting next step to see if the trend in PPS scores adds information about the patient’s prognosis, which I expect it would.

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. It was information about our ACP facilitator. This is a pragmatic trial.

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Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Every time you experience pain, it is informed by so many different things. Let’s say you get stuck in a trap and you might scream, is to inform other people that there might be a threat or to inform other people that you may not be able to do a certain task because you are hurt. Sometimes it is that simple. Haider: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

A lot of people, and we have some data to say that you might have distress, but sex is not one of the reasons for your distress when you’re first diagnosed. So cancer.net has information on this. I think there’s a lot more good, high quality information available to folks, and. I have as well. Areej 34:19 Yeah, sure.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. I could walk down the hall and get information. They could have diagnosed him earlier.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

And then another, which was released under the Bush administration by a council with a different sort of philosophical Benton worldview which still managed to come to the same conclusion in support of a brain based definition, death. The first one, which was very influential on the writing of the law that was released in 1981.

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