Vascular Physician

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Many people feel fatigue or pain in their feet or legs with physical activity due to the lack of proper blood flow to their limbs. If you've been diagnosed with PAD or noticed any of its symptoms, working with an experienced medical team is the best way to keep your symptoms under control and prevent the disease from getting worse.

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Vascular Physician

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The majority of individuals who develop RAS also have atherosclerosis, a condition that causes sticky plaque to build up on the inside of your artery walls. First, they will perform a physical exam, review your health history, and check your kidney function with blood and urine tests. How Common is RAS? What Are the Treatment Options?

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Vida Family Medicine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It can be extremely stressful trying to deal with all of the emotions and physical symptoms that you will experience postpartum while also trying to ensure your baby is getting enough to eat. A lactation consultant can recognize signs of these problems and refer you to the appropriate physician to diagnose and/or treat these conditions.

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Vascular Physician

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Here is what you should know about CVI in order to manage your symptoms and improve your quality of life. While some individuals' symptoms may be mild, others can be severe and even disabling. In most cases, CVI can be effectively managed with a combination of lifestyle changes and compression therapy.

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East Cary Family Physicians

JANUARY 30, 2024

By the time individuals experience vision problems, significant damage may have already occurred. If any concerns are identified, individuals are promptly referred to an ophthalmologist for a comprehensive eye examination. Early detection not only facilitates effective management but also significantly reduces the risk of vision loss.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. Eric: And for those individuals, do we know anything? This is Eric Widera.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Moreover, center patients not only in discussions about individual decision-making but in constructing and drawing meaning from the research. These factors may have impacted their diet, physical activity, and medications, thus impacting their creatinine levels and the inputs that we use for GFR. Published online July 29, 2020.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Incontinence and avoiding issues can present in an older individual, in some cases, just like they do a younger person. Biological aging or physiological aging varies from individual to individual. How do you think about this from a clinical perspective when you’re seeing individuals in your office? Everybody ages.

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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. The role of lifestyle and dietary modifications in management. Gastroesophageal Reflux: Management Guidance for the Pediatrician.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. And so to develop that equation, they use the cohort of individuals and their data, their blood samples, creatine and other physical attributes.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What should we use to screen individuals? 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.

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Dr. Michael Bazel

MARCH 31, 2025

Understanding the most common respiratory diseases affecting men’s health is key to prevention, early detection, and better management. Symptoms: Persistent cough with mucus Shortness of breath, especially during activity Wheezing Chest tightness Frequent respiratory infections Prevention & Management: Quit smoking immediately.

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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. What are the Management and Treatment Options in a case of fever?

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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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Vascular Physician

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

It is estimated that this affects up to thirty percent of individuals with chronic pelvic pain and is most likely to develop in women who have previously given birth. The hormonal and physical changes associated with pregnancy are thought to be the primary cause of pelvic venous Disorders.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Noelle Marie 01:24 I think it really speaks a lot to my own personal journey and I’m pretty sure a lot of trans and gender diverse individuals also resonate with and it really speaks about our transition, celebrating our authentic selves, how society views us and how we view ourselves when we stand in front of a mirror.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. However, there are “Red Flag” symptoms that require urgent evaluation and management. A doctor can help identify triggers, suggest lifestyle changes, and recommend medications to manage symptoms.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Before your blood pressure rises as well, know that this PEMBlog article is here to provide an overview of the recognition and management of hypertensive emergencies. Evaluation consists of lab studies, including CBC, CMP, BNP, troponin, UA, UDS, TSH with reflex to T4, and urine pregnancy test for individuals with a uterus.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. Yes, over diagnosed in older adults are about right.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. This is something we’ve heard from people: that if you just bring it up every year as part of your routine physical, like, “Any concerns about driving?”

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

This episode will help you better prepare for and manage children with inborn errors of metabolism in the Emergency Department. As always, I’m your host, Brad Sobolewski, and this episode focuses on the management of children with metabolic disorders who present to the emergency department. Inborn Errors of Metabolism.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. And I would say we weren’t doing training on symptom management, for example. And then there was a lot of stuff on coping and symptom management. Who will emerge victorious?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? On todays podcast, weve invited Nathaniel Chin back to the GeriPal podcast to talk about what primary care needs to manage this new world of Alzheimers disease effectively. Does a good history matter anymore?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. And so to develop that equation, they use the cohort of individuals and their data, their blood samples, creatine and other physical attributes.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Learn all about diagnosis and management of this common problem in this brief podcast episode. But it might underestimate it because lots of mild cases don’t actually present clinically, and they’re not diagnosed endoscopically. The best way to diagnose this is through imaging like CT scans.

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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.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

Annie 02:31 So if you go to the A G S meeting every year, you know that this group of three individuals comprises the AGS literature update. But in spite of that, it is a lot of work for three individuals to pull all this together. So that this is not something that might affect the individual clinician patient decision.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. I think some of that is from some of my thinking about maybe what I can potentially think about with the individual to support them. In fact from the time he was diagnosed, he passed away within two and a half weeks.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Had multiple physical, psychological complications as a result of that. Just an extraordinary cast of individuals who were really so incredibly inspiring. I guess one question for providers is, as we dive into individual sense of dignity, and I guess threats to that dignity, is potentially feeling like we’re opening this box.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

You get me with one-finger-chords on the guitar if you’re watching on YouTube (best I could manage). So it started off for individuals with a terminal illness. All of the evidence shows that for mental illnesses in individual cases of mental illness, we cannot make those predictions. I think that’s a big mistake.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Stop thinking the physical exam or the differential diagnose, whatever, and just be there. I wasn’t able to really fully recover from that, from a relational standpoint, and as best I could do symptom management along the way. In the individual clinical encounter, that’s a lot of what we do.

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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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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

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. This is a particularly interesting topic because we know that individuals with dementia have a high rate of entering nursing home. Eric 05:50 Yeah. What’s in it again?

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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 is it at all individualized to the patient? Before the primary care visit.

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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. With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Tertiary Prevention: Managing Existing Conditions Tertiary preventive care focuses on managing existing chronic diseases to prevent complications, improve quality of life, and reduce the negative impact of disease. These measures are taken after a disease has been diagnosed.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The patients that, I think, most benefited from it were those individuals who, as I said, maybe, had a pneumonia, and needed IV antibiotics, but wanted to do that… If they could get better in the comfort of their own homes, that were not interested in passing away in the hospital. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses.

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