Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Regular visits to a primary care clinic can make a world of difference in your overall health. It's not just about being reactive; preventive care services help you maintain your overall health by addressing potential issues before they escalate. Building a relationship with your primary care doctor should be a priority.

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GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

Cancer screening is designed to detect slow growing cancers that on average take 10 years to cause harm. The benefits of mammography breast cancer screening rise with age, peak when women are in their 60s, and decline thereafter. This is about cancer screening in older adults. Summary Transcript Summary. Mara: Thank you so much.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

When starting opioid therapy for acute, subacute, or chronic pain, clinicians should prescribe immediate-release opioids instead of extended-release/long-acting (“ER/LA”) opioids. ER/LA opioids should be “reserved for severe, continuous pain.”. Methadone should not be the first choice for an ER/LA opioid. Recommendation 9. .

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GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

We then walk through how we should screen for anxiety and how we should think about a differential. And that was a common experience I had in my psychiatry training, was being called to the ER to see someone who’d come in with panic. And they’re like, now we want them out of the ER, but they won’t leave.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. And I turned to my dad and I said, I think mom needs palliative care.

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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. It’ll certainly write the letter summarizing your visit to the primary care doc, and then, write another version of it in patient language, both their language and their reading level, if you want, to the patient.

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IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 140

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

In terms of their risk, in terms of how we think of preventive health, as we think of screening, all of those things, I would turn around to the geriatricians and say, “Check your implicit bias. They didn’t go to the psych ER again. The psych ER was still open, and they spent money. We basically met them.

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