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Medicare Annual Wellness Visit: What Is It?

Boulder Medical Center

Unlike a routine physical or sick visit, the AWV focuses on health risk assessment, screening, and prevention—not diagnosing or treating new or existing conditions. appeared first on Boulder Medical Center. The post Medicare Annual Wellness Visit: What Is It?

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Overall medication adherence as an indicator for health outcomes among elderly patients with hypertension and diabetes [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objectives To assess overall medication adherence as an indicator for emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality among elderly patients. Methods The study included individuals aged 75 to 90 years, diagnosed with diabetes or hypertension, who were treated with at least one antihypertensive, or antidiabetic medication in 2017.

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Episode 79: Human Dx unknown with Reza & U of C residents – abdominal pain

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Alec Rezigh Alec Rezigh is a third-year internal medicine resident at The University of Colorado. He then went back to Houston for medical school at the University of Texas at Houston (McGovern) Medical School. He is originally from Houston, TX and received his undergraduate degree at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Episode 81: Human Dx unknown with Dr. André Mansoor & OHSU residents – dyspnea and weight loss

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Logan Jones “Logan” Jones is a PGY-3 at OHSU in Portland, and will be joining the faculty as an assistant professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine with an academic focus on student assessment, curricular innovation, learner scholarship, clinical reasoning, and EMR proficiency. He completed medical school at Baylor College of Medicine.

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Episode 234: WDx #16 – Clinical Unknown with Dr. Alexandra “Jay” Teng

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Alexandra “Jay” Teng, followed by a discussion about her experience as a woman in an Internal Medicine procedural subspecialty. That experience helped convince her to pursue medicine. Dr. Teng earned her medical degree from UCSF, then completed internal medicine residency at UCLA. She now works at Kaiser.

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Incidence Rates of Appendiceal Adenocarcinoma Increasing

Physician's Weekly

MONDAY, June 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The incidence rates of appendiceal adenocarcinoma (AA) increased after 1945, according to a study published online June 10 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Andreana N. Holowatyj, Ph.D.,

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Episode 317: Neurology VMR – Generalized Weakness

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Neurology DDx Schema Kirtan Patolia @KirtanPatolia Kirtan Patolia is a second-year Internal Medicine resident from John H. He relishes being the CPSolvers team member, as solving cases and generating differential diagnoses are his biggest passions. Stroger Jr., Hospital of Cook County, Chicago.