Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 5, 2022

A primary care physician is the first point of contact when people want to receive care. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 50% of doctor office appointments are made with primary doctors. With that said, check out some essential services primary care physicians offer.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: MedStar Health, a multidisciplinary and multispecialty health care system in the mid-Atlantic US. Population Studied: Individuals with gonorrhea and chlamydia positive tests. 52.7% (n=2311/4385) were diagnosed in a Hospital / ED setting, 25.2% (1107) within a primary care setting, and 18.1%

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Vascular Physician

APRIL 22, 2024

Whether you are showing signs of a vascular concern, have been diagnosed with a disease, or are striving to prevent a vascular illness from occurring in the future, a vascular ultrasound can give your healthcare provider a clear image of how well blood is flowing to the organs and tissues throughout your body.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 5, 2025

If you’ve been diagnosed with an endocrine disorder, like diabetes or an underactive thyroid, or have symptoms that you worry are caused by a hormone imbalance, you may be considering seeing an endocrinologist. Endocrinologists are doctors who specialize in diagnosing and treating endocrine system disorders. What is an Endocrinologist?

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

One of the most rewarding parts of being a primary care physician is when I am able to work with a patient to help them find answers to unexplained symptoms they have been dealing with, sometimes for years! If you have already been diagnosed with any medical conditions, write down all of the diagnoses you have.

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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. Seek guidance from your primary care physician for support or medications to aid in the quitting process.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. What should we use to screen individuals? It can’t be diagnosed and adios. Who should get it if anyone? Who do we have with us today?

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 9, 2025

When your doctor diagnoses you with high blood pressure, they will likely recommend medications and lifestyle changes based on your risk of complications. Many individuals with high blood pressure must take specific drugs to keep it at a healthy level. A variety of blood pressure drugs with various mechanisms are available.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 9, 2025

When your doctor diagnoses you with high blood pressure, they will likely recommend medications and lifestyle changes based on your risk of complications. Many individuals with high blood pressure must take specific drugs to keep it at a healthy level. A variety of blood pressure drugs with various mechanisms are available.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 12, 2025

Check with your doctor about safe alcohol consumption given your individual health profile. You Can Stop Taking Medication If Your Numbers Improve Being diagnosed with hypertension means a lifetime of managing this condition through some combination of medication and lifestyle adjustments.

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Vida Family Medicine

APRIL 4, 2023

As a primary care physician, I see many patients who struggle with their relationship with food. The patients that I see are often highly motivated to take good care of themselves to prevent or control a chronic disease. If you have struggled with your relationship with food- you are not alone!

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Today we learn more about coaching from 3 coaches: Greg Pawlson, coach and former president of the American Geriatrics Society, Vicky Tang, geriatrician-researcher at UCSF and coach , and Beth Griffiths, primary care internist at UCSF and coach. We address: What is coaching? How does it differ from therapy? From Beth Israel and UNC.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As you know, our population is aging at a rapid speed and older, adult older persons is no longer cared for only by a geriatrician or a primary care physician. 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

JUNE 20, 2024

Alex 00:30 And we’re delighted to welcome Alison Huang, who’s a primary care doc and researcher and professor of medicine, urology, and epi-biostats at UCSF in the division of General Internal Medicine. Incontinence and avoiding issues can present in an older individual, in some cases, just like they do a younger person.

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 24, 2025

The Role of Internal Medicine in Preventive Health Care Internal medicine plays a central role in adult health, especially when it comes to prevention, diagnosis, and long-term care. And how does it support preventive care? While both provide primary care , there are some key distinctions.

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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. Endoscopy, upper GI and endoscopy is the gold standard for diagnosing gastritis. Non invasive H. Non invasive H. pylori in the kid.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective(s): Understand the unique lived experiences of Latinas with cervical cancer over 45 years old across the cancer care continuum. Methods: In-depth semi-structured interviews using the Database of Individual Patient Experiences (DIPEx) methodology. Only a few received stage 1 diagnoses.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The US Preventive Services Taskforce (USPSTF) recommends one-time Hepatitis C screening for all adults and routine periodic screening for higher-risk individuals and treatments are available that can cure more than 95% of people with Hepatitis C. and higher rates of primary care physicians per 100,000 (53.9 vs. 28.5%).

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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. Great to be back.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

I’m thinking of chronic pain, for example, and individuals with chronic pain often have disturbed sleep or other conditions. We also worked a little bit with the primary care team certain of the risk factors. But it seems like they’re probably also risk factors. Alex: Mm-hmm. Kristine: Yeah, it’s funny.

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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. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program.

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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

Most sore throats heal on their own, but severe cases may require urgent care. Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

A total of 1,842 participants reported physician-diagnosed CHD, and the mean DII score was 1.33. Findings revealed stronger associations in adults less than 75 years ( P <0.001), ( P =0.028), individuals with low total cholesterol ( P =0.004), and those with low Framingham risk scores ( P =0.005). The cohort’s mean age was 49.8±18.1

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. Then I would say any clear deficits in thinking, vision, physical mobility, big new diagnoses, those; certainly cognitive changes, because that’s a really big one in terms of risk. Alex: Yeah. No, I think it was just the arm.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Jessie: Yes. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Which brings us to an article.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

So what is the role of individuals like geriatricians in prescribing amyloid antibodies and caring for individuals who are receiving them? And I do think geriatricians need to as individuals make that decision, largely based on their comfort with the diagnostics and the specifics of the therapeutics.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

What happened is we’re in the serious illness care business and so we were busy rolling out our serious illness conversations at Mass General and we were getting resistance, which we expected from oncology and primary care, but then we started getting resistance from the geriatricians. It’s all individual.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As you know, our population is aging at a rapid speed and older, adult older persons is no longer cared for only by a geriatrician or a primary care physician. 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

JUNE 23, 2022

If you know that there’s a group that you don’t treat even after they’re diagnosed, it causes anxiety, but you’re not causing them harms from treatment. So I’m actually interested in also trying to help women who’ve been diagnosed figure out what to do too. Meanwhile, there is risk to the procedure.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

And in my medical training, becoming a primary care doctor, I realized that older adults, women and men were having a lot of these same symptoms. Very interested in decision making around as we get older, individualizing care, sort of patient centered, values driven, it’s a tough decision to figure out. Scott: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

When should people get palliative care? We can’t possibly meet the needs of all people with newly diagnosed serious illness. Should we have like a list of diagnoses or prognosis. We have palliative care who gets what, what goes, where. Alex: It gets very local and individualizes as you were saying. Thank you, Eric.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Whenever I take care of a patient, I see myself as a family practice doctor, but I’ve been a hospitalist, I’ve been a primary care doctor, and I’ve done palliative. It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of. I often say that doulas are mirrors.

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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. Today, we talk with Bernie Lo, prominent bioethicist and practicing primary care internist, and Laurie Dornbrand, geriatrician at the IOA On Lok PACE, about the legacy of Nancy Curzan.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe individual characteristics and healthcare use in older adults with SMI across home care services (HCS) profiles before and after the first dementia diagnosis. Group 1 consisted of older individuals, mainly diagnosed in the hospital and with poorer COC.

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Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 1, 2023

Less than 6% of people who have an eating disorder are considered "underweight," and those who live in larger bodies are significantly less likely to be diagnosed and access proper treatment. 30% of people who seek medical care for weight loss show signs of binge eating disorder.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Today we are delighted to welcome Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, and Danny Scerpella, who conducted a pragmatic trial of advance care planning (ACP) in primary care practices; and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who wrote an accompanying commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Sydney 00:41 Thank you.

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