Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

The demand for medical office assistants is growing in clinics, hospitals, and private practices, including here at PACT. Knowledge of medical terminology: Understanding common abbreviations, diagnoses, and procedures helps you do your job effectively. Becoming a medical office assistant might be the perfect choice for you.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

If there’s visual symptoms, patients are often hospitalized for high dose intravenous symptoms. We don’t want to overtreat GCA, but again, under diagnosing it has life altering consequences. Most patients with head and neck ischemia are started on high dose prednisone, ways that we have been doing this for many years.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

education, income, number of previous hospitalizations) that also lead to clinical outcomes, not only race-based stratification. Establishing a Task Force to Reassess the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Diseases. We might group people across socio-demographic categories (ex. Published online July 29, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.13378

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

And so certainly from a family’s perspective, a family caregiver perspective, the last thing we want to have when it comes to good dementia care is a diagnose and audio scenario, or in this case, some type of screening result, and then we’ll see you again in six months. It can’t be diagnosed and adios.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

But oftentimes, a therapist has deeper training and really history of trauma and specific diagnoses, versus a coach may be a little bit more future-focused and really works with people, regardless of whether they’re having any diagnosable challenge at the moment. Eric: Vicky, anything you’d add to that? Beth: Yeah.

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Doctors for America

MAY 30, 2025

COVID-19 infection continues to result in hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations annually, and causes the deaths of hundreds of Americans each week. Moreover, these restrictions assume that preexisting diagnoses perfectly predict a patients’ risk of severe COVID-19 disease, ignoring several years of scientific evidence to the contrary.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Whether it's a urinary tract infection or a severe ear infection, urgent care clinics can quickly diagnose and treat infections. A clinic is a medical facility where healthcare professionals provide specialized medical care to patients. Antibiotic treatments for infections require timely prescriptions. What is in a clinic?

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

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.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Because I think we have someone special, a guest host. And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. Yes, over diagnosed in older adults are about right.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. We talk with Kate about how despite how far we’ve come in palliative care research, we still don’t have answers to some fundamental questions, such as: Who should get specialized palliative care? I do tend to focus in the hospital setting. By diagnosis?

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. Laurie: Yeah, she was an On Lok patient, and I went in to see her in the hospital.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

Alex: She’s also associate professor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Harvard Medical School. I was asking about what was going to be special about the trip or if they were going to do things with their family. They’re like, “Everyone wants to make every moment of our day special.” Juliet: Lund, yeah.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

My special guest podcaster, Emily Groopman, is an actual Pediatric Geneticist in training and we hope that you will find this episode useful. So my special guest host on this episode is a trainee in pediatrics and medical genetics. Her name is Emily Groopman, and she’s a current resident at Children’s National Hospital.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Eric: Alex, we have a super special today. We’ve got a hospice super special. Alex: We have a hospice super special day. Eric: We have a smorgasbord, if you will, of papers that got published recently around hospice, and that’s why we’re calling it a hospice super special. -@AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

We got some really special guests with us. And I remember being there and there was a patient who had seen inpatient and then subsequently outpatient who was so thankful in the weirdest in just this irrational way for having been diagnosed with liver cancer. Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

It’s going to be published as a special report in JPM I hope in May with as of today, 279, I think HPM physician colleagues, signatures including 21 of the living past presidents of the academy. We don’t want people dying in the hospital if their goal is to be at home. Most of the time it works out. Overall it was 3.1%

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

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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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

There’s no special thing to say, but sometimes we’re tempted to treat serious illness communication in that way, conversational judo or something, that I can maneuver around an encounter and create something new. All these studies in this fringe… We want the special key. And oftentimes there is no password.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And when I think about some of the … There was actually a meta-analysis looking at specialized palliative care studies, only half of the 10 randomized control studies had a social worker as part of that team. And then my mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and she was treated there. It’s good. So proud of myself.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

With the direct primary care model, your insurance is used for what it is intended to cover: catastrophic health events, hospitalizations, specialist care, imaging, and surgery. In some cases, you may be referred to a hospital or specialty service. in-the-know/our-specials":{"type":"Static","pageId":"u7hat"},"./schedule":{"type":"Static","pageId":"tg6i2"},"./medspa":{"type":"Static","pageId":"hr7g7"},"./meet-the-team":{"type":"Static","pageId":"w0jmf"},".

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Alex: Generally in the hospital-based hospice. Matt: I’m more of a hospital guy. So I think that people like us feel more comfortable just talking to the public because that’s what we do every day of our careers, but not in the confines of a clinic or a hospital room. Alex: Not frequently, no. Sammy: Oh, okay.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 8, 2024

Eric 00:05 And Alex, we have a special episode today — B etween T wo U rns. And I can’t imagine anyone working in an end of life situation, in hospital palliative care situations. And I got to sing Tom Waits’ Time, one of my favorites. Transcript Eric 00:01 Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Eric 25:08 Super special.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. And I also read that 1 out of 10 newly diagnosed HIV cases are in older adults. In San Francisco, HIV care was more specialized in that.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. Haider: Yeah, this is a special song. And in some ways I have this special responsibility in part, along with others, to pass those teachings along to a new generation who may never get to talk to him in the middle of a day on a landline.

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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. And that included scheduling a visit with a, with a facilitator who had been specially trained.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Redwing: When you’re diagnosed with cancer, the first thing you think about is when you’re going to die. Like Alex said, it’s not just about the nortriptyline and the new opioid receptors, that there’s something else that makes the work we do special. Why not live as long as possible? Alex: That’s great.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. And I was terrified.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Open since 2005 her community clinic has inspired Americans to create ideal hospitals and clinics nationwide. These human rights violations are perpetuated in first-world brand-name hospitals. We should be completely ashamed that this is going on in our hospitals. This is going to cause problems for the next generation.

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