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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

If the patient needs additional support beyond the primary care clinician’s capacity or scope of practice, telehealth visits or “E-consults” with an obesity medicine specialist, behavioral psychologist, dietician, physical therapist, or other healthcare professionals essential to the care plan are avenues to improve access.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. Whenever I take care of a patient, I see myself as a family practice doctor, but I’ve been a hospitalist, I’ve been a primary care doctor, and I’ve done palliative. That dawned on me.

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What We Now Know About COVID Prevention and Treatment: A Podcast with Monica Gandhi

GeriPal

But we have very little information, almost no information. And to be very fair, there was a study in 2013 in family practice, this would be important, I think for those who treat older patients. And so there are other new treatments that I hope also will inform RSV and other RNA viruses.