Doctors for America

JUNE 30, 2025

Medicaid provides care for low-income families, people with disabilities, children, the elderly, and pregnant people, as well as many safety-net hospitals, community health centers, and nursing and long-term care facilities. Medicaid allows low income women to address medical conditions prior to pregnancy, improving outcomes.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

After adjustment for age, sex, and smoking, the lowest tertile of DI was associated with high-risk plaque features, with waist circumference, triglycerides, and hypertension as possible mediators in multivariable analyses. from Skåne University Hospital in Sweden, said in a statement.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. And there are no default pathways of family or friends to rely on and no known people who could potentially represent this person from within their inner circle.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations.

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GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Eduardo 07:17 Well, we had a palliative care unit in another hospital that was 510 minutes away. And the truth is we don’t want, I don’t want any patient or family to perceive that when Brera goes to see me, there’s a second interest, a second gain. Alex 24:58 I’m so glad you mentioned the family.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. Because I also feel like we target people’s low sodium diets in the hospital. A pill organizer, having family.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Have you had a family history of substance use disorder? Eric: This comes down to also like, if I find… As an oncologist, somebody has very high hypertension, is it my role to control that hypertension? And they ask questions like, have you used substances? Most of our population has trauma. Most oncologists would say no.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

And again, that can create a food desert, which can create health issues for patients and their families, so that’s an example of structural racism, but again, it’s baked into laws. Because we know- Sharon: Maybe diabetes and hypertension, which is so prominent in African Americans can impact your amyloid deposition.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home. Eric 41:32 Yeah, I love that too, because it applies in the hospital, I think Ann’s told me this before, like, don’t move the tv. Like, does that indirect?

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 21, 2024

Pat Connolly & Cortney Linville who attended the AAFP Family Medicine Advocacy Summit in Washington May 19-21. Here's what Dr. Connolly had to say: "I was pleased and privileged to attend the AAFP Family Medicine Advocacy Summit again last month and represent our state.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 2, 2025

” She eventually went to the hospital, where she was told she was “in full-blown heart failure,” she said. The CDC information “is the final say in safety,” said Patty Cason, a family nurse practitioner and president of Envision Sexual and Reproductive Health. “I felt like I couldn’t breathe.”

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

So respiratory complications include apnea, secondary bacterial pneumonia, and pulmonary hypertension. Greater than 50 percent of kids under 12 months of age with pertussis could require hospitalization. Infants with apnea, cyanosis, or feeding difficulties should obviously be admitted to the hospital.

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