Dr. Michael Bazel

JUNE 16, 2025

Also Read: Low Testosterone in Men: Signs, Causes, and Treatment Options How Stress Manifests Physically and Emotionally Stress is a natural response to pressure, danger, or significant life changes. Getting a Clear Diagnosis Because symptoms of hormone imbalance and stress are so similar, a proper diagnosis is essential.

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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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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

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. I have oncology on the brain. ” Right?

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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. When the lymphedema therapy, it’s a type of physical therapy where they do wraps and they go.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

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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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

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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Complication Patient-Centered IT Patients 52

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. Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? What’s a disruptive event?

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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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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. We did not just rely on a physical symptom measure, which many of our colleagues are doing. It’s not just about physical symptom management. Additionally, in case patients didn’t step up, we did have sort of events where they were scheduled to see palliative care.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

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

JULY 25, 2024

So how physically active the patient is, how much time they spend awake, how much they’re eating, how much care they need, that type of thing. Someone’s function in the future can depend on, like, a crisis event, like a fall and a hip fracture. Alex 05:48 I guess we didn’t do hospice specifically. Eric 05:50 Yeah.

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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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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. Of note, we talk about candidates from all parties today.

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