StorytellERdoc

MARCH 16, 2015

At times like this, then, I am glad to have our hard-working nurses and techs with me in the room to bear witness to such events. For example, recently I treated a 62 year-old retired kindergarten teacher who presented to our emergency department for a nosebleed.

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AMMD

MARCH 13, 2025

Brain fog is not a medical condition or a diagnosis. These include our physical environment, jobs, relationships, traffic, and unexpected events. Or, you constantly second-guess yourself about locking the door or turning off the stove because you truly can’t remember if you did. These are signs of brain fog!

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical. Again, otherwise the diagnosis is based on history and physical examination.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Participants were recruited via electronic healthcare records, community tabling events, and social media efforts. Methods: In-depth semi-structured interviews using the Database of Individual Patient Experiences (DIPEx) methodology. Verbatim transcripts in English and Spanish were analyzed in NVivo 14.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

Moral injury is a normal human response to an abnormal traumatic event—a deep soul wound shattering one’s identity and morality. Yet moral injury is not an official diagnosis. Enter the real diagnosis—human rights violations—with clear evidence-based solutions. I’ve witnessed all far too frequently among physicians.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Ab: I learn from them, and I tell sometimes the family members that the person with dementia, your loved one, is fine and you are replaying the event that happened a week ago and you’ve replayed that event 100 times and that’s causing a distress. How do we move on? Sometimes actually memory causing more harm than good.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

This actually frees up physicians to lean in and really understand their patient, to have the time and the capacity to do the appropriate diagnosis, but also to listen to them and to motivate them in their own care and wellness. Nguyen, I hear you time and time again emphasizing that this gets back to the roots of medicine.

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CDOCS

MAY 4, 2021

We need to recognize how clinical dentistry has become intertwined with digital technologies to synergistically assist us in providing enhanced diagnosis with safe and predictable treatment outcomes. & The Atlantis lab always includes an insertion jig with these kinds of abutments to make the insertion visit a non-event.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

How we came about to select these articles or to have interest in this topic is really older adults are unique population that are at risk for both over diagnosis of infections as well as under diagnosis of infections. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations.

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Dr. Michael Bazel

JUNE 16, 2025

Also Read: The Most Common Respiratory Diseases Affecting Men’s Health When Stress Is the Likely Culprit Sometimes, symptoms are directly tied to life events or mental strain. Getting a Clear Diagnosis Because symptoms of hormone imbalance and stress are so similar, a proper diagnosis is essential. A specialist like Dr.

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Center for Family Medicine

APRIL 7, 2025

Short-term depression following a sad event, such as a death in the family or getting fired from a job, is expected. Making the diagnosis If an adult or teen is suspected of having depression, the individual should be seen by a healthcare provider for assessment and treatment.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 13, 2020

Ambulatory cardiac event monitoring demonstrated an episode of complete heart block, and myocardial perfusion imaging showed a focal perfusion defect in the left ventricle (thought to represent a prior myocardial infarction versus sarcoidosis). Diagnosis can be made by endomyocardial biopsy or with compatible imaging findings (e.g.,

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Vascular Physician

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Many events can cause the blockage of an artery, with the most common causes discussed here: Arterial thrombosis: the formation of a clot within the arterial system itself. Causes Overwhelmingly, the most common causes of acute limb ischemia involve blockages of arteries that deliver blood to the limbs.

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Myriad Genetics

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

My parents weren’t there to go to sporting events or birthday parties,” said Lisa. The way Lisa handled this breast cancer diagnosis, and this treatment is unbelievable,” said Terry. Lisa’s mom died from breast cancer when their son was four years old, and their daughter was two years old. My kids grew up without their grandparents.

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GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. And this has been really interesting because people are like, they just got their diagnosis.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

There is a lot to digest with these draft clinical guidelines but the big change from the 2018 guideline is moving Alzheimers to a biological diagnosis (biomarker evidence only) not just for a research framework but now from a clinical one. That’s going to whole groups of people excluded from formal diagnosis. Eric: PET scans.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Like, with a cancer diagnosis, there’s relatively a smooth, smooth prognosis. Is that, and we try to use, often use the term prognostic humility, that unlike more than any other diagnosis, really, we truly need to be humble, right. We know what’s going to happen. Brittany 15:07 Right. Like, it’s not an if, right?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

And so many older adults with diagnosis of osteoporosis have never received any therapy for it. These were clinical trials involving postmenopausal women with a diagnosis of osteoporosis, based on either an existing vertebral fracture or a bone mineral at the density T-score of less than negative 2.5, Eric: I like that one.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. So I would agree, just in terms of not trying to dismiss a lot of these patients in terms of deconditioning and really trying to sometimes hone in on the diagnosis despite a Bnp level that is not necessarily very high. Nicole 12:14 No, HFpEF is cool, and it’s fine. What is GDMT?

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. So for the stepped care model, all patients see palliative care at the time of diagnosis.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. Joel: Yeah. Samir: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

How we came about to select these articles or to have interest in this topic is really older adults are unique population that are at risk for both over diagnosis of infections as well as under diagnosis of infections. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Instead, what if your surgeon told you that the operation she was discussing could help with only 4 things: live longer, feel better, prevent disability, or obtain a diagnosis? It can help prevent disability, or it can make a diagnosis and that’s it. Gretchen: It can help you live longer. Surgery does nothing else.

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. Today we talk about disruptive events, or health and wealth shocks. So thought it related to our theme of disruptive events about different ways in which you may experience an early demise.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So the two examples that I would talk about are treatment for osteoporosis that hinges on the 10 year risk of fracture, and then treatment for hyperlipidemia that hinges on predicted 10 year cardiovascular events. So the idea here is that generally the risks of bad things, like side effects, are pretty constant throughout the population.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Michele. Michele: Thank you for having me. Eric: And you’re also the medical director of the hospice unit here. Michele: Yep.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The global Randomized Trial to Prevent Vascular Events in HIV (REPRIEVE) revealed that statin therapy reduced major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) by 36% among PWH with low-to-moderate traditional ASCVD risk.” The post Even With Statins, Modifi able Risk Factors Drive MACE Risk in HIV first appeared on Physician's Weekly.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. Additionally, in case patients didn’t step up, we did have sort of events where they were scheduled to see palliative care. You sort of had a month after all of those events. Eric 27:07 Month of that event, did they also see inpatient palliative care?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Filling an Information Gap IMIDs such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and systemic sclerosis involve chronic inflammation that increases the risk for cardiovascular events, including myocardial infarction and stroke. However, population-level data on CVD in IMIDs—especially regarding sex disparities—remains limited.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

Scientists say the rise may owe to several factors, including better diagnosis, older parents and genetics, The Wall Street Journal said. Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine nonprofit Kennedy once led, is holding an online event this week to mark what it calls the “autism cover-up.” More information The U.S.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis. It has to do with genetics, 30%, 10% your diagnosis, the other 60% is your built-in environment, educational status, income and your personal choices. But, for a majority, it’s a first time event. They’re afraid of losing their independence.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 1, 2023

If you are interested in learning more about the draft guidelines and the response from AGS to these guidelines, check out the following links: Revised Criteria for Diagnosis and Staging of Alzheimer’s Disease: Alzheimer’s Association Workgroup AGS’s response to the revised criteria Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed? They got sick.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Someone’s function in the future can depend on, like, a crisis event, like a fall and a hip fracture. It’s not just in the next couple weeks or months. James 26:49 Exactly. And also, a lot of it is kind of challenging to predict, like, if you. That is really challenging to predict.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . Poetry helps us grapple with our own experiences of illness. Redwing, who is a cancer survivor, shares poems about her experiences with cancer. And along the way, we really felt like we got to the heart of things.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

It’s just a trash can label—not really even a diagnosis, a made-up term that is used as psychological warfare on physicians to control us. A physician actually ended up in status epilepticus, like in the ICU with event like almost dead from seizures as a result of sleep deprivation and overwork. Housewives were burned out.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

He kept his diagnosis hidden from friends and family because he knew how people talked about HIV. In a small office, his team organizes health events, tests people for HIV, and connects those who test positive with treatment and housing assistance, funded through federal programs like Ryan White.

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