Boulder Medical Center

JUNE 27, 2025

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. A Medicare Annual Wellness Visit is a once-per-year appointment covered by Medicare Part B. The post Medicare Annual Wellness Visit: What Is It?

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Many patients find that health questions arise between appointments but get forgotten during the actual visit. Review your family health history, particularly any new diagnoses among blood relatives since your last appointment. Regular preventive visits during this period help identify and address emerging health risks.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. To Susan’s point. Older people don’t live in the Offices for the Aging. They touch every single system. I won’t even get into problem gambling.

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GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

And I was an internal medicine resident. We’ve seen the stigma associated with mental health. And then once I came to the United States, I saw this whole different dimension of pain, because I started residency in 2011, this was really at the peak of the opioid prescription epidemic, if you may.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. So that’s I think diagnoses.

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