Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 11, 2023

In fact, there are several ways that a family care physician can save your life. Preventative Care A family physician will have a complete medical history for you and your family. For example, if your family has a history of heart disease, they'll help you learn how to eat a heart-healthy diet to prevent cardiovascular problems.

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Noreta Family Medicine

APRIL 17, 2024

Part 2 Here are some frequently asked questions I get as a Primary Care Provider. What is the meaning of Family Medicine? As the name suggests, a family physician can take care of your entire family – from the day of your birth (even before!) Other family doctors only see patients in their clinics.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

MARCH 1, 2025

For example, when cleaning it’s important to know that bleach plus ammonia equals a trip to the emergency room. Medical teams need to know what was ingested to provide proper treatment. Talk to a doctor at Center for Family Medicine for more information about poison control. Don’t let it. Stay vigilant year-round.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

JANUARY 1, 2025

When you and your child visit the pediatrician , the doctor will do things like measure your child’s height and weight, discuss immunizations that will prevent illness, and provide parents with a platform to ask questions about their children’s physical and mental health. Why Are Pediatric Check-ups Important?

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

” Somehow, there’s this signal that the patients and families had to pick up that maybe the surgeon wasn’t so enthusiastic, or if I just dump risk on them, maybe they’ll say, “I don’t want this.” What I need to navigate with that patient and their family, is it valuable to you? Every time.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They may have few family members, live alone.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

That put me in the emergency room. But I gave this talk, and one of the questions I asked a group of maybe 150 residents was, do you talk to your healthcare provider about your medical cannabis use? After I asked many people how many used it, and I would say less than one in ten were willing to talk to their healthcare provider.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Well, I’m a geriatric nurse practitioner and I provided care to over 800 nursing home residents in 11 different nursing homes. I was really struck by the difference in care provided to people with advanced dementia. Ruth: Sure.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. Why is that important in the emergency room?

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: The problem is we communicate late, we share prognosis late, we elicit goals and values late, so all the time while they’re in the ICU getting prolonged intensive care, we don’t really know that we’re providing goal concordant care, so we wanted to nudge it a little upstream. Emergency rooms. Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

People saw that there were people who needed to have supportive care, didn’t need to have the level of nursing that was provided in nursing homes, and there was money to be made. Another one had to do with the category of medical and mental healthcare providers and care. And family members should know that this needs to go on.”

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

When patients leave the hospital, the infection may be cured, but the patient and family will need to contend with a host of major new functional and cognitive deficits. You can use that when you’re talking to families about prognostication. Alex: What happens when people survive? It’s not just about the ICU.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. ” I think that’s what I’m talking about with action, or it might be family leave policies. If I can share in my own family, my grandmother died early in the pandemic, just before her 97th birthday.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

She entertained her family. Thanksgiving’s coming up, you’re having your family, Christmas coming up. You’re going to go traveling to Hawaii with your family, and, you know, you want to die in January. And so I thought about it a while, called, and sure enough, they brought him up to the emergency room.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

This question, while providing an opportunity to talk about direct and indirect experiences, can be asked of all patients, and opens the door to conversations about anti-semitism, islamophobia, or anti-Black racism. They said, you know, we refer to mental health, we refer to social work because we have language concordant providers.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. It’s hard for your family to know. Juliet: Because even in the ICU, they’ll often have multiple meetings just to try and help a family move along before they can make a decision. It’s part of our family mythology.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Everything.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Lucky, Jim and many others like him were willing to come on to our podcast those first several months of the pandemic and share their experiences and lessons learned caring for COVID positive patients and their family members. . Or, if they were in the emergency room and decided to be admitted for comfort measures only, I would admit them.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. And the treatments are different than what hospice might provide in the home setting. I trained at Hopkins. We had, since the late seventies, a home-based primary care program.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Algorithms using millions of direct observations of a persons behavior to provide an authentic portrait of the way a person lived? You basically don’t even ask the family, you just stop the bleeding. Are you encountering family members who are just, like, at a loss for what to do and tortured it? Teva 11:11 Absolutely.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

They rushed to the emergency room, fearing a dangerous bowel impaction. Researchers are learning that obesity’s drivers can be environmental, familial, or genetic. ” Until more insurers start reimbursing the cost, the company is providing the drug free of charge to trial participants.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Also, the bill would curtail taxes that nearly every state levies on providers to help draw down billions in additional federal money, which generally leads to more money for hospitals. “They’ll do anything to see it stay open and provide good quality care to their neighbors, family members,” he said.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

But that’s when his family began fighting another adversary: their health insurer, which decided the treatment was “not medically necessary,” according to insurance paperwork. When the Tennant family was told histotripsy would cost $50,000 and insurance wouldn’t cover it, they appealed the denial four times.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

In our city of Victoria, for instance, many people do not have a family doctor because so many doctors have retired; those who are left are unable to take new patients because their lists are full. This would present a valuable opportunity for doctors and their families to learn French. Canada fits Americans comfortably.

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