Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population studied: Actively practicing North Carolina internal medicine and family medicine physicians. Most saw race as being presented as biological in the ASCVD risk calculator, which concerned them. Participants recognized increased ASCVD risk among Black patients, which they attributed to social and cultural factors.

Primary Care Physician 130

Primary Care Physician Internal Medicine Family Medicine DO 130

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

APRIL 23, 2019

The patients WSBT 22 talked with say it's actually been more cost-effective. That’s not the only benefit -- they say this new healthcare model allows for longer appointments and a more personal relationship with their physician. Tracy Marr has been a patient of Family Physicians of Saint Joseph for more than a decade.

Insurance 52

Insurance Family Physician Appointment Healthcare 52

Family Physicians of Greeley

MAY 17, 2023

Practice Mindfulness: Mindfulness is the art of being present in the moment and fully aware of your thoughts, emotions, and sensations without judgment. Cultivate Supportive Relationships: Building and maintaining healthy relationships is essential for our mental well-being.

Mental Health 40

Mental Health Physicals Healthcare Professional Relationship 40

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This year, in addition to the 10 finalists Maneesha Agarwal will be presenting at the National Conference and Exhibition we will be sharing four cases online in advance of the conference. The family declined an enema in the ED, and she was discharged home on a miralax cleanout to follow up with her PCP.

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PCP PCP Diagnosis Diagnose 69

GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. You wrote about how when it comes to talking about patients with dementia, they’re rarely portrayed as resilient. Alex: First three words would be, family and history and diversity.

Community 101

Community IT Individual Patient-Centered 101

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll make the important distinction between gastritis – which is diagnosed only via endoscopy – and dyspepsia, the term best used to describe the symptoms many patients experience. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Both conditions can present with similar symptoms.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. Regular visits to your primary care physician at Mesa Family Physicians provide opportunities for early detection of potential health issues before they become serious problems.

Family Physician 100

Family Physician Preventive Care Preventative Care Family 100

StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

I dedicate this to each of you who have cared for or are currently caring for an ill parent or family member. Although this may seem like it should be the standard, you would be surprised at just how many elderly patients present to our emergency department alone. Sadly, the members of her family didn't want to be bothered.

ER 100

ER Family Families Transportation 100

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Direct primary care offers you and your family top-notch health care, and so much more.like a high patient and provider satisfaction with an improved quality of care. Instead, they establish a direct patient-provider relationship, for a flat fee. Specialty referrals can be reduced or eliminated.

Family Medicine 40

Family Medicine DO Family Families 40

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. But watch out! Travel time can leave this champ vulnerable to fatigue and no-shows.

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Appreciate how intergenerational trauma may surface amongst Asian-Americans, and how these intergenerational relationships may also offer fertile ground for generating understanding. Create spaces to have conversations about the broader contexts affecting patients. Insufficient language services (i.e.,

Community 52

Community Patient-Centered Relationship Healthcare 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary You know when you walk out of a patient’s room and have that sense, “This isn’t going to go well.” The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. Rather, most of us live and make decisions in relationship to one another.

Family 97

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 97

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. Jenny reached out to us because she plays music regularly for her patients, and she said, you should do a podcast about music. Look for Jenny to potentially appear on the show Americas Got Talent (no lie). Theresa 00:32 Thank you.

IT 96

IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

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 I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive. Is the patient in your descriptor? Alex 10:41 No, they don’t.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. I think even the word patient, patient, I think, comes from the word suffer, the one who suffers. ” So there’s this element too, of what’s suffering in relationship to others, and can we compare? What do we mean by health?

IT 137

IT Families Family Physicals 137

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Initially, it was just because there weren’t really answers for my patients.

IT 102

IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It’s a jampacked 50 minutes, filled with pearls on taking care of patients with liver disease. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. What’s the connection and why? Eric 04:50 Okay.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. Wonderful work.

Patient-Centered 115

Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Alex: How is your family doing?

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose.

Family 112

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

How, though, do we navigate anxiety and help our patients who may end up in the anxiety spiral that becomes so hard to get out of? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson have no relationships to disclose. Because the experience tends to be fairly consistent.

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

We all must recognize the codification of racism within our institutions and work to unlearn these hierarchies in order to better care for Black and Indigenous patients. Be present in the birthing moment and see the full humanity of the birthing person and the life-changing nature of birth. and a professor.”

Community 52

Community Patient-Centered Family Families 52

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Coping in the setting of a serious illness about a patient encounter you had with somebody who used an. You probably haven’t read in a while what that patient encounter was like. Coping is something that we see our patients do. We can ask ourselves, is it serving the patient? How is it serving the patient?

Illness 125

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 125

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Along the way we address: Is this degree of slowed cognitive decline meaningful to patients or care partners? Eric: So patient narrative storytelling, independent of what we call it, I’d like to turn to both of you and just how you got interested in this as a subject. She was a heart failure patient. Heather: Sure.

IT 105

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. When I see a patient? Matthew, I get the lyrics.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Have you ever had that moment when talking to a patient, when you realized that the phrase you just uttered, which you’ve uttered a hundred times before, came out rote and scripted? And in response, the family or patient looked at you like you were from another planet? Summary Transcript Summary. Yeah, I’ve been there too.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. You present your. If we think of discrimination, how people are treated by their biological family.

Individual 81

Individual Community IT Chronic Condition 81

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Then, “Keep your hand up if you frequently refer patients with cancer pain to a psychologist?” Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. That rings true to me.

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome John Loughnane who is a palliative care doctor and end-of-life doula and co-founder of Present for You.

Provider 117

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

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. I loved the relationship that we developed and the fun we had.

IT 104

IT Patient-Centered Families Family 104

GeriPal

JUNE 13, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Eduardo Bruera has no relationships to disclose. But the patient would say, well, but it still hurts, though. And basically I saw that we had nothing to assess how the patients were feeling. And we said, what are our patients suffering from as persons?

Illness 133

Illness Patient-Centered Patients IT 133

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. And is so part of this intervention, so there was a proactive component of getting chaplaincy involved.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

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. But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients?

IT 99

IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. The patient case. I think the theme is more saving someone’s life and the regret that follows.

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Patients IT Patient-Centered Hospital 98

GeriPal

MAY 29, 2025

Today we talk about lucid episodes and what they might mean to the person with dementia, their family and loved ones, to philosophers, to clinicians, to neuroscientists. Particularly patients, families. Alex 06:05 And, oh, for that family, it was so meaningful. That their loved one is in there. Eric 01:34 Yeah.

Family 93

Family Families IT Patient-Centered 93

GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I love this article as it specifically discusses what’s wrong with “ need ” statements and how we can shift our communication and thinking to create space for deliberation about patients’ priorities and the best course of action. So I first want to just say thank you to Ernesto’s family. This is Eric Widera. Sunita: Yes.

Illness 136

Illness IT Patient-Centered Families 136