Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 28, 2025

Ask for Recommendations When you’re looking for a hormone doctor, people you trust can provide valuable recommendations. Your Connecticut-based primary care doctor is a good place to start, as they understand your health history and can refer you to a trusted hormone doctor that specializes in your condition.

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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). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us.

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Families Family IT Community 132

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And I think one key part is educating the field, not just my fellow cardiologists, but also primary care doctors, geriatricians, that there’s this heart failure syndrome that is kind of sneaky, and it’s kind of difficult to diagnose any. A pill organizer, having family. Eric 14:10 Yeah. Eric 23:11 Yeah.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JULY 3, 2025

09:04 And I think that’s where the irony came from as well, because of the not only confusion within our field, but the confusion of patients and families who are the consumers of palliative care and the referral sources. Their family may be impacted, they may have social pain. Is that what I’m hearing, Laura?

Patient-Centered 71

Patient-Centered Illness Clinic IT 71

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. As a general practitioner and primary care researcher, it was always fascinating for me to delve into the scientific literature to investigate this issue. Is that appropriate, or should it be the opposite? Here are the key results.

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Family Physician Family Families GP 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Nate also wrote a NEJM piece last year on Alzheimers Disease, Biomarkers, and mAbs What Does Primary Care Need? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95