Remove Education Remove Events Remove Families Remove Individual
article thumbnail

Exploring the educational needs and preferences of physicians in pharmacogenomics in primary care practice [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Ten percent of patients using prescription drugs experience adverse drug events (ADE). A proportion of these ADEs can be explained by a difference in enzyme activity between individuals. Intra-individual variation in genetic composition is one of the key contributing factors determining enzyme activity.

article thumbnail

Should Recent Weather Events Impact Your Emergency Fund?

The Motivated MD

Though severe weather events like this used to feel like a ‘once in a decade’ tragedy, they are, statistically speaking, becoming more and more common. Should recent weather events impact your emergency fund? Should recent weather events impact your emergency fund? It happens. What Can We Learn From This?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

The second piece is getting folks to be successful at restricting their calories, which works well when nutrition education and behavioral counseling strategies are combined—and even better when provided in a group setting. This helps the patient know that the challenge of weight maintenance is not due to their lack of willpower.

article thumbnail

Be The Market: How Doctors Should Invest Their Money

The Motivated MD

Add in the complexities of family life, child-rearing, and pursuing any interest outside of your career, and much of your time is spoken for. How, then, can any physician find the time to research individual companies and make educated decisions on which publicly traded businesses are undervalued? We simply cannot.

Finance 52
article thumbnail

Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

So on today’s podcast we invite four brilliant individuals to talk about their perspective on how to change how we as a society and health care system partner with individuals with dementia. Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

Community 101
article thumbnail

Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

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 know we go back quite a ways and that this is a very important topic for all of us to really to talk about and to be educated about. million members and patients.

article thumbnail

Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. Communication techniques we can use when talking to individuals with hearing loss. But individuals who have hearing loss, there’s several problems. How to screen for hearing loss.

IT 102