Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

In addition, Dr. Nguyen co-chairs the SCPMG Virtual Medical Center and brings extensive expertise as a practicing family medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente. I’m a family physician by training. And I would remiss not to mention my wife and my family who might love and enjoy time with to travel. Fascinating background.

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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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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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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. Teenagers with depression may also withdraw from friends and family, spending more time alone. Once a diagnosis is made, treatment options can be discussed.

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Myriad Genetics

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

My parents weren’t there to go to sporting events or birthday parties,” said Lisa. We are a close-knit family; they are my whole world and I want to be there for them.” Family history of breast cancer Lisa was 24 when her mom passed away. “I “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 we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Like, with a cancer diagnosis, there’s relatively a smooth, smooth prognosis. I think for families and for other providers who are not trained in that, it’s very hard to predict. And you’re working with a patient that almost is like a dementia patient, depending on how much lactulose they’ve been taking.

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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? What I need to navigate with that patient and their family, is it valuable to you? And when they talk to patients and families, it’s a pretty easy sell.

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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. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. And we’ve really tried to serve that hospice mission of serving the patient and the family.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? 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.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

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. Remember, family member. And that could extend beyond 18 months. We just don’t know that.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. 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. Alex: I’ve got to show you the back of the Jersey. Eric: Yeah. Alex: That’s right. Jennifer: Oh nice.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

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. A pill organizer, having family. What is GDMT?

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

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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Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 93

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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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.” 2.76) and 2.53 (95% CI: 1.60-4.01), 4.01), respectively. 2.30), and lower HDL cholesterol (HR, 1.21; 95% CI, 1.10-1.34).

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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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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

And so we know that the decision to enter a nursing home is incredibly challenging for families, especially because it often comes with thoughts that they’re, like, abandoning their loved one, really. So it’s not just like the patient or the family, but it’s also the healthcare system. James 19:32 Yeah, exactly.

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 106

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. 60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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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

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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Mental Health IT Community Individual 123

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 21, 2022

Mike Rabow shares his award winning poem about coming out to the world about his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis. . Redwing: So I grew up in a pretty intellectual family, but my brother and sister were six and 10 years older than me, and they were always feeding me literature and poetry. Eric: Like since a little kid? Eric: Yeah?

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Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine. 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. I’m not kidding like my first family picture with my parents was when I was 45. 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. “I thought my family was going to disown me,” he said. At his first job at an HIV organization in Jackson, Mississippi, Sturdevant regularly checked in with clients who didn’t have family members to support them.

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GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Ken Covinsky reminds us that we should not be making a diagnosis based on what we see on TV, and that if a patient’s daughter expressed a concern that their parent “wasn’t right,” we would conduct an in depth evaluation that might last an hour. You hear people, a lot of talking heads on tv. I am unable to make certain pronouncements.

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