PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Now, I know that’s a lot to digest, and you might be starting to churn, but let’s talk now about the relationship between eating and pain. In individuals with celiac disease, gluten intake leads to an immune mediated inflammatory response that damages the small intestine’s mucosal lining, specifically the villi.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. But we’re not perfect individuals.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. Because how that is approached can have lasting effects on relationships, unfortunately. So just starting to unpack what’s happening in an individual’s life can maybe then lead to more conversations and assessment.

IT 102

IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. Graduated in 2013, did a two-year clinician educator track. How long ago?

Board-Certified 91

Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

An end-of-life doula is a non-medical support person that provides a longitudinal relationship with aspects of medical, I mean, aspects of companionship, presence, holding space, some logistics, some practical help, decision making perhaps. John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. I often say that doulas are mirrors.

Provider 117

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

And that’s really fast and I don’t have a lot of time in my visit and there’s all this conversation about primary care and I’m a primary care doctor. We sent PCPs a copy of the educational tool they would receive. Mara: Exactly. And so then they saw their PCP. It’s two pages.

Screening 99

Screening PCP PCP IT 99

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

This graph illustrates that the benefit of long-term GP-patient relationships is even dose-dependent (longer GP-patient-relationship = lower risk of dying prematurely): Why do long-term GP-patient relationships improve health and reduce costs? As shown in the following graph, primary care services amount for only 8.1%

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Family Families GP 130