Hitchcock Family Medicine

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This type of doctor is often referred to as an internist or primary care doctor. According to the CDC, the percentage of adults who had a visit with a doctor or other health care professional in the last year is 84.9%. Let's look at three of the conditions that can be treated through internal medicine.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

uh, ill defined epigastric or chest pain, and it’s often worse by eating or lying down after meals. Have a detailed discussion with the patient and family and do shared decision making in terms of interventions, the GI does, and again, these will be the gold standards. Like, you can totally order this as an outpatient.

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GeriPal

JULY 3, 2025

And that really resonated with what we often talk about in palliative care, is helping people not just die well, but live well. Eric 09:34 I got a question on that because it’s interesting because we were talking a little bit palliative care and like a little bit about, like, confusion around, like, what does palliative care mean?

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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). Love to talk about also in the serious illness population. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. Eric: Mm-hmm. That’s one.

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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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