Vascular Physician

JULY 10, 2022

Thursday Sept 8, 2022 11:00 - 11:30 am Registration in Foyer on 3rd Floor by Platte River Ballroom Visit with Sponsors in Confluence Room C (30 mins) 11:30 – 12:15pm Lunch/Visit with Sponsors in Confluence Room C (45 mins) 12:15 – 12:20pm Welcome/Introductions in Platte River Room by Barb Melendez, MD (5 mins) Session 1: 12:20 – 12:50pm (..)

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Vascular Physician

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To diagnose this condition, your physician may perform screening tests, such as an ankle-brachial index test (ABI). In fact, sexual dysfunction is so often associated with Leriche Syndrome that the absence of this symptom suggests that another diagnosis should be considered. An ABI less than 0.9 What are the treatment options?

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Hypertension Complication Patients Diagnose 52

Vascular Physician

AUGUST 23, 2022

Thursday Sept 8, 2022 11:00 - 11:30 am Registration in Foyer on 3rd Floor by Platte River Ballroom Visit with Sponsors in Confluence Room C (30 mins) 11:30 – 12:15pm Lunch/Visit with Sponsors in Confluence Room C (45 mins) 12:15 – 12:20pm Welcome/Introductions in Platte River Room by Barbara Melendez, MD (5 mins) Session 1: 12:20 – (..)

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Attention to any toxidromes, any abnormal vital signs or mental status, eye findings, and neurologic examination provide the greatest help in narrowing the differential diagnosis. And we do this even when we know from years of growing evidence that the yield of these routinely ordered screening tests is very poor? Ann Emerg Med.

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Lab Testing Medical Patients Mental Health 52

Mesa Family Physician

MAY 8, 2025

It’s more than just visiting your doctor when something feels off—it’s about catching potential problems early, staying on top of health screenings, and setting goals that keep you feeling your best. Preventive care refers to medical services that focus on early detection, routine screenings, and health counseling.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Do you screen for lower urinary tract symptoms, incontinence, and if so, how? If I was going to ask one question about this just as a screen, is there a way to ask this question that is not both stigmatizing, but people also understand and it gets around some of these issues. Eric 08:05 Yeah. Eric 08:19 Sure thing, if I’m honest.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Eric 00:27 So we’re going to be talking about making the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in a primary care setting, not specialty care, but maybe we could talk a little bit about that. Does a good history matter anymore? Whats the role of assessing function? Great to be back.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 7, 2025

This plaque buildup is known as atherosclerosis, which can cause cardiac disease, stroke, and other severe conditions – making early cholesterol screening essential. Routine cholesterol screenings help assess your risk for cardiovascular disease so you and your healthcare provider can better understand your overall heart health.

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

We then walk through how we should screen for anxiety and how we should think about a differential. But often what we’re talking about is this experience that we can describe physically inside of our body, the sensation that we’re having as we’re anticipating that things may go wrong or badly in some kind of way.

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Dr. Michael Bazel

MAY 26, 2025

The good news is that with the right diagnosis and treatment, you can take back control of how you feel, look, and live. Also Read: Men’s Health Checklist: Essential Screenings to Prevent Serious Illness What Causes Low Testosterone? That ensures accuracy and helps tailor the most effective treatment plan.

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Treatment Plan Diagnosis Management IT 130

Vascular Physician

MARCH 29, 2022

On physical examination, the affected region may be swollen and erythematous though non-tender. Consequently, screening for additional aneurysms upon diagnosis is highly recommended. Initial screening modalities include bilateral ultrasound (US), with CT angiography of the lower extremity if US results are inconclusive.

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Complication Screening Hypertension Diagnosis 52

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

During these regular appointments, doctors conduct various tests and screenings to catch issues early. Clinics are often smaller than hospitals and may focus on a specific type of care, such as general health check-ups, urgent care, vaccinations, or specialty services like physical therapy.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. Those things do just accumulate with age.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). We saw that around 60% of people were screening positive for depression in the last month before death. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. Physical exam Vital Signs: Temperature: 37.9 °C, This is the fourth of the four cases. This case was submitted by… A previously healthy 19-month-old male presented with lethargy and abdominal distention from an urgent care.

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Screening Diagnose Diagnosis Management 52

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

JUNE 16, 2022

We discuss with her how we should work-up and manage “urinary tract infections” (I’ve added air quotes to “UTI” in honor of Tom Finucane’s JAGS article titled “Urinary Tract Infection”—Requiem for a Heavyweight in which he advocated to put air quotes around the term UTI due to the ambiguity of the diagnosis.). Chrissy: Well, right.

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She is a member of the Clinical Genome Resource Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) Clinical Domain Working Group, where as a biocurator she assesses the pathogenicity of variants in IEM-associated genes to facilitate expedited genetic diagnosis for IEMs. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. Pediatr Rev.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

I had it on my screen. 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. Maybe I could turn to both of you how you got interested in this.

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Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So if you can think about certain decisions like continuing to screen for certain cancers like colon cancer or breast cancer, or how strict you should control diabetes or blood pressures. We know that a lot of times with cancer screening, you don’t actually get benefits right away and it can cause potential harms right away.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Holly has accumulated mountains of evidence for the diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder as a specific condition primarily notable for a yearning over a year after the death. And what we mean is like they’re physical numbness or they trip over that particular symptom, but it’s that sense of detachment from living people.

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IT Complication Relationship Specialization 100

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?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? So I’m just going to share on my screen. I actually just said, “I’m going to be sick,” and I didn’t go into work.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Families 98

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. Diane: Which too many people do, Malaz. It has multiple prints and updates.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

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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