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. Yet there’s so much multi morbidity going on. Eric 23:11 Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Emmy: So I think shifting that a little bit is what helped me do a lot of the education that I do to therapists and physicians, just to have it on their radar. I can get you guys that information. And then they can transfer that information to the specialist. Emmy: I completely agree in terms of the red flags.

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GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

And that’s another huge source of data and that’s the data that generally informs the USPSTF and other guidelines. And that’s why I want women to have an informed decision. We sent PCPs a copy of the educational tool they would receive. Eric: So how do you actually convey the risk then? Mara: Exactly.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have. Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. I think it’s all about how important. I think Bob also noted documenting it. Rebecca: I think I’ll also add too.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. Whenever I take care of a patient, I see myself as a family practice doctor, but I’ve been a hospitalist, I’ve been a primary care doctor, and I’ve done palliative. That dawned on me.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

A recent study of almost 3 million US patients showed that those who visited primary care were much more likely to receive preventive services : 127% more vaccinations, 122% more colonoscopies, and 75% more mammograms. As shown in the following graph, primary care services amount for only 8.1%

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GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

And the actors were blinded to whether this was a primary care doctor or a chat bot answering them. The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. They had no idea. Bob: Thank you, guys.

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