Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 15, 2025

of the state’s population — have been diagnosed with the condition. If you’ve been diagnosed with either type, you may wonder how to manage it, and whether or not there’s a cure for diabetes. Because of the relationship between excess weight and insulin, losing weight can make it easier to control your blood sugar levels.

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The Direct Doctors Difference

AUGUST 9, 2023

As physicians, our 8+ years of training are focused on understanding what symptoms could be related to what diagnoses and helping patients navigate the many possibilities and narrow it down with appropriate testing and treatment to better understand what their final diagnosis may be.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions. It can differentiate between a physician’s questions and a patient’s responses and even filter out non-relevant small talk.

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BMJ

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

doi: 10.1136/fmch-2021-001139 Prediabetes, a health condition with blood sugar levels higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes, increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and heart disease. In the US, about 11% of people with prediabetes will progress to type 2 diabetes annually.

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AMMD

MARCH 13, 2025

These include our physical environment, jobs, relationships, traffic, and unexpected events. I battled thyroid disease in medical school after being diagnosed with Graves’ disease. Hypothyroidism (an under-active thyroid) is the most common form of thyroid dysfunction, and 90% of hypothyroidism patients have Hashimoto’s.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

She was diagnosed with constipation. The patient completed the miralax cleanout followed by daily miralax, and started having soft, formed stools daily without any pain (Bristol type 4). OHVIRA Syndrome The patient’s ultrasound revealed an obstructed hemivagina. She had a normal urinalysis and the abdominal x-rays seen here.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 16, 2025

Virtual visits can diagnose colds, flu , or allergies and help you manage symptoms at home. Despite those concerns, the authors of the study concluded, “Many patients and health professionals would consider using herbal medicine for acute bronchitis, if based on trustworthy advice and evidence-based guidelines, respectively.”

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests George Kuchel & Alison Huang have no relationships to disclose. There, we may do very poorly, where we can describe our beautiful models of all the kind of risk factors and contributors, ranging from organ level, patient level, behavioral, contextual, environmental.

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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. Gastroesophageal reflux disease is when the patients have severe symptoms that persist and cause long term issues.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. You wrote about how when it comes to talking about patients with dementia, they’re rarely portrayed as resilient. And the person with dementia, the patient, said yes. All types of dementia.

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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. You’re not just another patient — you’re known.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

30% of eligible adults do not receive CRC screening, and disparities exist among those with multiple chronic conditions (MCC, having more than one diagnosed chronic health condition that require ongoing medical care). We used ICD-10 codes from patient records and the CMS Chronic Conditions algorithm to categorize MCC status.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

But oftentimes, a therapist has deeper training and really history of trauma and specific diagnoses, versus a coach may be a little bit more future-focused and really works with people, regardless of whether they’re having any diagnosable challenge at the moment. We’re doing a lot of interactive relationship building.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MARCH 27, 2025

The portrayal of the doctor-patient relationship in films is rather interesting. He is diagnosed with a lazy eye and prescribed an eyepatch. Dr. Bartolo diagnoses him with anxiety: “ You are a bit tense, you know …” The scene does not carry on with a conversation about it.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Your ongoing appointments help foster a strong patient-doctor relationship , making it easier to discuss your concerns and receive personalized care. Building a relationship with your primary care doctor should be a priority. They also provide immunizations and lifestyle advice tailored to your specific needs.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. What do different patient populations need? But watch out! Alex 01:06 Yeah, go in person.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We address: Why is caring for patients with this overlap so hard? Sach Kale set up an outpatient clinic focused on substance use disorder for patients with cancer. Who follows the patient once the cancer goes into remission? Why am I having difficulty with this patient? Why am I feeling frustrated with this patient?

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

How, though, do we navigate anxiety and help our patients who may end up in the anxiety spiral that becomes so hard to get out of? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. Because the experience tends to be fairly consistent.

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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. When I see a patient? Matthew, I get the lyrics.

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AMMD

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

My 31 year old half sister was diagnosed with stage IV Triple Negative Breast Cancer 15 months ago. Consider the relationship between parasites and cancer when addressing the true causes of cancer. It takes a more holistic approach to health and wellness and is gaining the attention of patients and physicians alike.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. 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. And so, let’s help them.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary You know when you walk out of a patient’s room and have that sense, “This isn’t going to go well.” The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. Rather, most of us live and make decisions in relationship to one another.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

” And Bing responded, I should ask about how AI can help identify patients who need palliative care and reduce hospitalizations, what are the benefits and challenges of using AI in decision-making, communication, palliative care, and how could AI support the quality of life and dignity of patients for those who are receiving palliative care?

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Initially, it was just because there weren’t really answers for my patients. Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. We’re going to go into how to talk to patients about this, because Emmy, you’ve done some research on it. “When can I get back to driving?”

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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. Eric: And what a research agenda that you’ve done, including one of the most seminal papers that we have in palliative care in lung cancer patients.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Then, “Keep your hand up if you frequently refer patients with cancer pain to a psychologist?” Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. That rings true to me.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Have you ever had that moment when talking to a patient, when you realized that the phrase you just uttered, which you’ve uttered a hundred times before, came out rote and scripted? And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? How can I get the patient to make a decision? Josh: Mm-hmm.

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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. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose. What words to use? Is the POLST useful? Laurie: Delighted to be here.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And also kind of highlights, you know, part of what we try to do in geriatrics and palliative care is really individualize how we care for individual, like, the people in front of us, the patients, the caregivers, their family members, their friends. And then the other thing is really partnering with your patient or your clients in terms of.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

This sort of stands in the face of what you and I learned in palliative care that illness is an opportunity for spiritual growth and transformation from what we have strived towards in caring for many of our patients. One colleagues of mine in the Netherlands did just interviews with 30 cancer patients and this theme kept coming out.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. But the patient would say, well, but it still hurts, though. And basically I saw that we had nothing to assess how the patients were feeling. And we said, what are our patients suffering from as persons?

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients? Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Matt Tyler (aka Pallidad for those on Twitter ): Matt is the Hospice and Palliative care doctor who created How To Train Your Doctor , which helps patients living with serious illness find tips on “owning” their healthcare plan on his Instagram and YouTube pages. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Matt: Yeah.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

However, as noted in our editorial published with the donanemab trial , the modest benefits of amyloid antibodies would likely not be questioned by patients, clinicians, or payers if amyloid antibodies were low risk, inexpensive, and simple to administer. The patients continued to be followed. However, they are none of these.

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GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

And so all of my work has really been trying to help patients understand what matters to them or make decisions based on what is likely the realistic outcomes of a decision and try to explain it to them in a way that they can understand so that they can make the best choice for them. Do you think most patients know that? Mara: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

First, in our editorial, we expressed concern about the length of stay metric not being patient centric, though important for health systems focused on cost savings. Panelists Kate Courtright and Scott Halpern have no relationships to disclose. And, of course, this is what families of patients undergoing palliative care go through.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Ramona: Well, I’ve always been interested in health equity, always been interested in looking at disparities, and the disparities that I have looked at most often have been for patients at the end of their lives. The trainee said to me something like, “But I haven’t seen any geriatric patients yet.” Eric: Yes.

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