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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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2025

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. Even if they don’t have the same condition as you, they can provide information about things like the doctor’s reputation or bedside manner.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

Relaying information between patients and providers. Knowledge of medical terminology: Understanding common abbreviations, diagnoses, and procedures helps you do your job effectively. Professionalism: In healthcare, professional conduct involves compassion for patients and using discretion to protect private information.

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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. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Who do we have with us today?

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 12, 2025

Tracking trends through home monitoring and informing your doctor can help verify if treatment is needed. 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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Compare the incidence of post-COVID conditions (PCC) by pre-pandemic diagnosed by the type of disability. Study Design and Analysis: This is a retrospective observational study of primary care visits during the 2019-2022 study period. 95% CI 0.51, 0.7)

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. It’s under recognized, under diagnosed, under treated, under discussed, understudied as a result. That can be incredibly informative. George, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Edge Family Medicine

APRIL 10, 2025

Establishing a long-term relationship with a primary care provider can make a profound difference in how effectively your health is managed over time. Why Primary Care Relationships Matter A trusted PCP gets to know you — not just your chart. Preventive Care that Works Primary care is your first line of defense.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cancer Prevention: Little to no awareness or information about cervical cancer. Cancer Screening: Challenges with making appointments and getting PAP Smears due to time, employment, transportation, and lack of established primary care provider. Only a few received stage 1 diagnoses.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It is important to understand the geographic variation, the availability of health care resources, and other factors associated with Hepatitis C screening and treatment rates. Objective(s): This research explores primary care capacity and other factors associated with Hepatitis C testing and treatment rates in Ohio. vs. 28.5%).

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Here, we collected the top dermatology apps to aid your digital skin care. There are widely varying figures, ranging from 66% to 90% depending on the source of information.) In the continent-sized country, approximately 11,000 skin care specialists are working, which means less than one dermatologist for 100,000 people.

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Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

What is primary care? Part 2 Here are some frequently asked questions I get as a Primary Care Provider. As the name suggests, a family physician can take care of your entire family – from the day of your birth (even before!) Don’t worry; HIPAA laws protect your privacy and medical information.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

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 visits to a primary care clinic can make a world of difference in your overall health. But when should you consider visiting an urgent care clinic?

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

There’s not that much information on smoking and cognition. We also worked a little bit with the primary care team certain of the risk factors. The biomarker discovery is tremendous, and I think truly will change the entire way ADRD is diagnosed and conceptualized in some ways. Smoking is a whole other story.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. That means many older adults will be relying on other primary care physicians, who already can’t keep up with demand , and nurse practitioners, whose ranks are booming. A headband was tied around her white hair.

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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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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Alex 00:12 We have a guest host who has requested this episode, Matt Shuster, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. Is your impression that HFpEFde is under diagnosed in older adults? Yes, over diagnosed in older adults are about right. Eric 12:21 Yeah.

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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. If you look in the diagnostical statistical manual, right, the sort of handbook for diagnoses, most of the diagnostic criteria are in some important ways kind of arbitrary, right?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And here, just to clarify, we’re using that term to mean, people diagnosed with cancer, not necessarily people who were treated with curative intent. Jessie: Yes. So, one out of 10?

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Emmy: So I do think at the bare minimum, healthcare providers who are caring for, interacting with older adults, should at least be aware of driving, including how new diagnoses or new medications might affect it, to be able to give people at least some guidance about what to watch out for, even if it’s just the basics.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

Alex: And joining us via Zoom, we have Charlotta Lindvall, who is a palliative care physician researcher who studies the intersection of natural language processing and communication data at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, where she also works in clinical informatics. The information there and you limit it in that way. Alex: Mm-hmm.

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GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

And that’s another huge source of data and that’s the data that generally informs the USPSTF and other guidelines. 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. What are your thoughts?

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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. 50 to 70% of people who are diagnosed with UTIs probably don’t have a UTI. I appreciate that information. I hear it’s over diagnosed. Is that right?

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Direct primary care offers you and your family top-notch health care, and so much more.like a high patient and provider satisfaction with an improved quality of care. The practice doesn't depend on the insurance company to say whether they will pay for a certain procedure or a particular test, and how much.

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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. They need, they need some, a little bit of information and probably a little more than that, what we like to call an edge. Thank you, Eric.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

So these folks who are taking it for the first time are going to be part of the new information that we have. And many people, many geriatricians and colleagues are going to be participating in databases where we collect information about people who are on these drugs. And we’ve been diagnosing it at Penn.

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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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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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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. ” 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

APRIL 18, 2024

And the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. They had no idea. That one’s wacky.

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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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Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 1, 2023

If you or someone you love is suffering, I hope that this information will help you find the resources you need to find recovery. 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.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

So Eric Cassell, for folks who don’t know, was a primary care physician. But really was a seminal pioneering figure in the field of bioethics, palliative care, et cetera. Every time you experience pain, it is informed by so many different things. Eric: And you actually interviewed Eric, right?

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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 most of us in primary care, it’s probably even worse. So cancer.net has information on this. We just don’t have time. You may have 30 minutes.

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