Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Adding genetic testing to clinical familial hypercholesterolemia screening improves risk assessment, prognosis and helps to guide targeted therapy. These individuals have total cholesterol counts exceeding 240 mg/dL, which increases their risk of heart disease. Familial hypercholesterolemia is one subset of hypercholesterolemia.

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Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

Informed by an environmental scan, we created and pilot-tested prototypes at implementation sites. We developed and tested the feasibility and acceptability of a tool to enhance conversations for adults with cognitive impairment at the point of care. All phases were overseen by a multidisciplinary steering committee.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

APRIL 24, 2025

The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians has been a longtime supporter of HCH, as some of our leaders were involved as the initiative came together. Many of our family medicine physicians work in certified health care homes; they value the infrastructure that the HCH model provides to ensure comprehensive and coordinated care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The pooled cohort equations (used in the ASCVD risk calculator) are race-stratified equations that estimate an individual’s ten-year risk of ASCVD. Population studied: Actively practicing North Carolina internal medicine and family medicine physicians. Setting: Video interviews, audio recorded and transcribed.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population studied: Key informants involved in intersectoral collaborations: people with complex needs (n=2), healthcare and social services professionals (n=10), managers (n=7), board of directors’ members (n=2), support staff (n=1). Study design: An instrumental case study design.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Community advisory boards (CABs) can effectively integrate individuals with lived experience and community organizations into the research process to align the work with community priorities. Population Studied: The scoping review aims to inform on how CBPR projects integrate people with lived experience onto CABs. 1, 1990, and Mar.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

MAY 1, 2025

Individuals experience various degrees of well-being, with people at one end of the spectrum having conditions such as depression, anxiety, or schizophrenia: conditions that can significantly impact daily life and cause distress or impairment. The South Dakota Department of Health offers online information about mental health.

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Plum Health

MAY 19, 2023

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Vida Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

When it comes to your health, it is important that you have all the information you need to take the best care of yourself. Unfortunately, there is also a history of paternalism and abuse in medicine, especially of individuals of color or from disadvantaged backgrounds, and this has created a lot of mistrust of medical professionals.

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Center for Family Medicine

APRIL 21, 2025

Studies show that exercise helps individuals fall asleep faster while improving sleep quality. These trackers can provide vital information on sleep, such as heart rate, time awake, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, and sleep efficiency. Diets low in dietary fiber and high in processed sugars can lead to poor sleep.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

Health insurance covers only very short visits that are limited to 1-2 problems per visit, leaving little time for patients to be able to share all of the relevant information about longstanding symptoms. If there are specific conditions you are worried about based on your family history or Googling or social media, write these down too.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Contributing to this challenge is the exponential growth of information, an expanding population of older adults, and office visit documentation. In addition, Dr. Nguyen co-chairs the SCPMG Virtual Medical Center and brings extensive expertise as a practicing family medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente. Thank you for sharing that.

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Priority Physicians

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Both THC and alcohol come with risks and perceived rewards, depending on the individual. An Individual Decision Besides considering THC’s illegal status in Indiana, the choice to use is an individual one. At Priority Physicians, your relationship with your primary care doctor encourages openness on this subject.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A Mobile Harm Reduction Team (MHR) partnered with public health bureau to develop low-barrier primary care addiction medicine in a trusted location, prioritizing relationship-centered care to promote patient engagement. POI helped rebuild confidence in new relationships. Two researchers used template analysis to identify themes.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids. What is the role of the family caregiver system, how they play a role? Tamryn: Yes, 100%.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. Communication techniques we can use when talking to individuals with hearing loss. But individuals who have hearing loss, there’s several problems. How to screen for hearing loss.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To assess the socioeconomic and demographic factors influencing interpersonal communication between family physicians and patients with chronic conditions. Population Studied: We included studies reporting interpersonal communication between adults (≥18 years) with at least one chronic condition and their family physicians.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

I practice family and sports medicine as part of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group here in Fontana, California. I just listened to the one on national cancer care that we’re doing, which was very informative and pretty impressive. WM: Like you, I’m a family physician. AM: Thank you so much.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results: We included 49,843 individuals in model 1. These results will inform a primary care tool that uses artificial intelligence/machine learning to predict those individuals at high risk for diabetes progression.

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Doctors for America

JUNE 30, 2025

That harm will fall disproportionately on the shoulders of already-marginalized groups, including pregnant people, people with disabilities, low-income families and individuals, and communities of color. Click here for more information.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2022

I care deeply about each and every one of my patients, and I do not want a difference in opinion to create a wedge in our relationship. These are intellectually interesting but often personally devastating to the patient and family involved. Medicine involves many extremely ethically challenging situations.

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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. Erasure often conceals the need for the collection of information that would spotlight challenges/inequities faced by Asian-Americans.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

Episode Learning Objectives After listening to this episode, learners will be able to: Illustrate the relationship between narrative medicine and healing relationships. She came from an activist family, with her mother being one of the first South Asian feminist activists in the country. Stories are not inherently just.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. We owe it to the patient to explore the reasons behind the “no,” commonly not wanting to be a burden to their family. Rather, most of us live and make decisions in relationship to one another. Nice to be here.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Noelle Marie 01:24 I think it really speaks a lot to my own personal journey and I’m pretty sure a lot of trans and gender diverse individuals also resonate with and it really speaks about our transition, celebrating our authentic selves, how society views us and how we view ourselves when we stand in front of a mirror.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. And one of the hardest things is to distill it down to a sentence or two about what is information, what does it mean? And then be quiet and listen.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. Eric 00:15 And we have three guests to help us talk about trauma informed care.

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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. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended? This is Eric Widera.

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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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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. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. ” So there’s this element too, of what’s suffering in relationship to others, and can we compare?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Panelists Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

She urges us to recognize that maternal mortality changes the life trajectories of individuals and communities. These statistics not only reflect the number of birthing people dying in childbirth but also evince the number of children growing up without a parent and the number of families losing a loved one. and a professor.”

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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.

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The Physicians Foundation

MAY 20, 2025

At a time when chronic diseases remain the number one cause of illness, disability and death nationwide, it is critical for physicians to have the tools needed to support the collective health of individuals across the United States. For more information, visit www.physiciansfoundation.org. As the U.S.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. I was really passionate about helping the people and also their families.

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