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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Diagnosis Management Patient-Centered Diagnose 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Nate also wrote a NEJM piece last year on Alzheimers Disease, Biomarkers, and mAbs What Does Primary Care Need? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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Family Families IT Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And I think one key part is educating the field, not just my fellow cardiologists, but also primary care doctors, geriatricians, that there’s this heart failure syndrome that is kind of sneaky, and it’s kind of difficult to diagnose any. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. Eric 14:10 Yeah.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. Michele: So the patients within the Department of Corrections, there are doctors at every facility.

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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

JULY 3, 2025

And I was curious to learn about how people were talking about what to expect after a diagnosis of advanced cancer, how clinicians were counseling patients, how patients were understanding their prognosis and making decisions. Alex 10:22 So just to say that again, from the time of diagnosis. Like at the time of diagnosis.

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