Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

For residents of Mesa and the surrounding East Valley communities, staying current with recommended preventive care can lead to better health outcomes and reduced healthcare costs. In Arizona’s climate, skin cancer screenings are particularly important given our high sun exposure.

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Preventive Care Preventative Care Family Physician Screening 100

GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. How to screen for hearing loss. Nick: More than obesity, more than education, that’s the one that people pay attention to.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. So, we are not screening for substance use in cancer care, so we don’t get good estimates among people with cancer, which is really how we would prefer to ask the question.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? Certainly my bias is that healthcare professionals really do have a role in this discussion. And what should we be doing as far as assessment?

Family 102

Family Families IT Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Stacy: We’re using anxiety, baseline anxiety, as our screening. Alex: So that’s not our prototypical screening ESAS question. So I think understanding or keeping in mind those concerns will be helpful in educating and recruiting participants or providing harm reduction in a naturalistic setting.

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Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And that came down a lot of times to asking the provider whether they felt they met criteria and then also looking to see if they had the financial, like the proper insurance or things like that. Like an AI robot goes in the room with the screen and that links to the human palliative care provider and is also the companion.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

I can remember two instances of storytelling in training or in education, I guess. It was all covered by my mom’s insurance. The post Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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IT Community Patients Family 107