Permanente Medicine

JUNE 23, 2025

This complimentary virtual event will feature a candid, strategic conversation with national health care leaders as they share their insights and best practices from proven value-based care models to help health systems, physician groups, and health plans navigate this critical transformation. .” PT / 11:30 a.m. CT / 12:30 p.m.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 14, 2025

Decode Your Family History Since high cholesterol often runs in families, knowing your levels can clarify if you’ve inherited a predisposition. Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a genetic condition causing severely elevated total and LDL cholesterol. Most young adults tolerate statins well. Cost no longer deters access.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 12, 2025

Getting the facts straight on some common blood pressure management myths can help you take control of your heart health. Following your physician’s treatment regimen, which may include medication and lifestyle adjustments, can help you regain control of your blood pressure management, regardless of your age.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 5, 2025

The mind-body connection has surprising implications for blood pressure management. The Stress Response and Blood Pressure Management Stressful situations send your body into fight-or-flight mode, flooding your system with hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol. Finding healthy emotional outlets is essential.

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Faithful MD

JULY 28, 2021

This is a brief post to share a few updates, links to recent articles, and upcoming events. Earlier this year, I was one of five family physicians chosen to join the multi-specialty national WEL Alliance. First, Gratitude!

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Between coughs, he managed to give me a faint smile. Some of the patches were less transparent and more natural-appearing, some of the scars less protruding and more flesh-colored, but it was obvious that multiple skin-grafts from multiple body sites had been a necessary, life-saving event at some point in Mr. Brown's life. "I

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Priority Physicians

JANUARY 27, 2025

Tips to Manage Anxiety If anxieties disable your daily life, discuss the situation with your direct primary care doctor. But in the meantime, we have a few tips that may help you manage anticipatory anxiety. First, follow conventional wisdom and count to 10. Quality REM sleep helps us recover from the day’s anxieties. (In

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Add in the complexities of family life, child-rearing, and pursuing any interest outside of your career, and much of your time is spoken for. Here are a few reasons: Overwhelmingly, index funds have lower expense ratios because they are passively managed. This will come as no surprise to most healthcare workers. This saves you money.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The role of lifestyle and dietary modifications in management. Management of gastritis and the consideration of Helicobacter pylori infection. Gastroesophageal Reflux: Management Guidance for the Pediatrician. They do, though, have distinct pathophysiologies and management strategies. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

In addition, Dr. Nguyen co-chairs the SCPMG Virtual Medical Center and brings extensive expertise as a practicing family medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente. I’m a family physician by training. And I quickly found myself in a role of access lead for Orange County and where I managed over 300 doctors.

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CDOCS

MAY 4, 2021

Couple this with the in-office technologies of CEREC&reg; Primescan and CBCT allowed us to gain control of the technical processes necessary to manage and produce the surgical and restorative phases of treatment at one location.</span></p> 1-3)</span></p> <p>[image:Screenshot_at_May_05_08_56_41.jpg]<br

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StorytellERdoc

JULY 17, 2020

As the cardiologist and our ER team continued with resuscitation efforts, I went to the family room to speak to this patient's wife. The case manager. Forty or so minutes had passed since the patient arrived and, as I had explained to the wife in the family room, time was not our friend. The family doctor was called.

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Center for Family Medicine

JUNE 13, 2025

While some of these changes are inevitable, many can be managed effectively with early intervention and regular medical care. The gradual buildup of plaque in the arteries often goes unnoticed until a major event occurs. Living a healthy life Choices about diet, exercise, and stress management in earlier years impact health after 50.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to focus upstream on the decision to initiate dialysis vs conservative kidney management. For example, with peritoneal dialysis and conservative management.

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

JANUARY 19, 2022

From the American Academy of Pediatrics : ​​​Fear, uncertainty, and being holed up at home more to slow the spread of COVID-19​ can make it tough for families to keep a sense of calm. But it’s important to help children feel safe, keep healthy routines, manage their emotions and behavior and build resilience. Creative play.

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My Green Doctor

JULY 2, 2025

Here we suggest steps that healthcare managers and clinicians can take to protect their patents. We hope you will discover resources to share with your family as well! In the United States, extreme weather events and air pollution are already costing the healthcare system over $820 billion annually.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hospital Chaplains, Spirituality, and Pain Management: A Qualitative Study. Pain Manag Nurs. The more we can notice that, the more we can actually be present for that family and actually see how they’re experiencing it. Family member, and with some chagrin- Eric: Powerful nudge. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

6-week Medical Student Externship - Medical Student Externship Report – Molly Mann, MS2 2023 July – August "My externship experience consisted of shadowing Dr. Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. I think for families and for other providers who are not trained in that, it’s very hard to predict. Sarah 07:12 It’s mostly our decompensated cirrhosis patients. Brittany 15:07 Right.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. And we’ve really tried to serve that hospice mission of serving the patient and the family.

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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

MAY 22, 2025

And we got all into his family stuff and how he’d been suffering with cancer and his goal. Just encourage patients and families to bring music into their healthcare experience. We introduce it to families and patients and explain how it works and show them. And it was like the lights came on. This guy came alive.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. And one person even called the system 75 times and that was just a light-bulb event for me. Same thing with kind of medication management. Katie: Thanks for the opportunity.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Alex 00:20 Today we’re delighted and honored to welcome Eduardo Bruera, who is one of the biggest symptom management gurus, if not the biggest symptom management guru in palliative medicine. If the patient has a spectacular response to HIV management or the cancer treatment, then the main factors are removed.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. So there’s an event or a series of events.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. We provide critical conversations with colleagues and families to coordinate transition planning.”

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Alex: I’ve got to show you the back of the Jersey. Eric: Yeah. Alex: That’s right.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? She has advance dementia. Eric: So, let’s talk about that. So, decision-making and surgical procedures.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. A good prescriber, a good symptom control manager. Ive got a name.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

The events are conditions that’ll be set into place unless some active choice to the contrary is chosen. And so we simply asked clinicians, have you offered this patient and, or their family the option of care focused on comfort? Their family members want them to get out of the hospital sooner. If not, why not?

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Kit Carney and Dr. Kristen Humphrey discuss gun violence, its impact on our patients and their families, as well as practical tips on advocating for safe storage of firearms, and how we can support victims of violence. Firearms, physicians, families, and kids: Finding words that work. Pediatrics November 2012; 130 (5): e1416–e1423.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. 80% died exactly where they wanted to and 83% were reconnected to family or friends through a psychosocial support system that we put into place.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

People’s goals are often much more than, you know, perfect management or heart failure, even living as long as possible. One of our first podcasts, over 300 podcasts ago, was with Nate Goldstein, who studies heart failure management in older adults, and particularly older adults nearing the end of life. Was it sodium hf?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

We invited three geriatricians and memory care doctors, Nate Chin, Sharon Brangman, and Jason Karlawish, to talk about this question and many others swirling around on how to safely prescribe these drugs and manage patients on them (like what to do about anticoagulation). Remember, family member. And that could extend beyond 18 months.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

So whether it’s an encounter with a patient or whether it’s a family meeting or a clinical practice meeting or a feedback session with a fellow, the idea that we have both the ability to be very full and open and also selective and disciplined about how it is that we. It was hard to keep my balance.

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Mere Mortal MD

MARCH 22, 2025

You may think we are being a bit paranoid, but as a rehabilitation physician that takes care of patients who have either had a brain injury or have lost their language abilities due to a stroke, it is imperative that couples and families share this information with each other. Otherwise, there are significant consequences.

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