Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JULY 11, 2024

Doc4aDay : On Friday May 17 th , Vicki Hayes MD ( MAFP member and Faculty, MMC Dept of Medical Education, and Tufts FMIG Medical Advisor ) and Shelly Chipman RN conducted another Doc4aDay program for high school students at the Hannaford Center for Safety, Innovation and Simulation.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

The FamilyPso questionnaire revealed caregiver burden among partners and family members of patients with psoriasis, which could bolster shared decision making. The burden of psoriasis extends beyond the patient to the caregivers who help to manage day-to-day symptoms. What is known, however, is disheartening.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: A patient’s relationship with their primary care physician (PCP) or advanced practice provider (APP) is instrumental in their healthcare journey. Study Design and Analysis: We conducted a secondary data analysis of EHR data which include n=10,279,755 encounters among n=278,406 unique patients.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 14, 2025

Decode Your Family History Since high cholesterol often runs in families, knowing your levels can clarify if you’ve inherited a predisposition. Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a genetic condition causing severely elevated total and LDL cholesterol. Healthy living’s preventive payoff gets bigger the earlier it starts.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 26, 2025

At Vida Family Medicine, I’ve helped hundreds of patients improve their blood sugar without extreme dieting or cutting out the foods they love. Being told you have pre-diabetes can feel overwhelming, but there’s good news: food is one of the most powerful tools you can use to manage your blood sugar. Insulin resistance.

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Myriad Genetics

APRIL 15, 2024

4 In a recent presentation, Dale Muzzey, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Myriad, summarized the findings this way: “We followed up with providers regarding their patients who screened positive for 22q. 5 Clear Benefits for Healthcare Providers and Patients The benefits to a high PPV are, well, myriad.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: This presentation looks back on 4 years of working in full partnership with three Atikamekw communities (Manawan, Wemotaci et Opitciwan) in Quebec to better understand, define and co-develop an intervention model to ensure cultural safety in care.

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PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

Learning Objectives Demonstrate the ability to use shared decision-making strategies when discussing imaging options with families of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Optimizing Advanced Imaging of the Pediatric Patient in the Emergency Department: Policy Statement. Pediatrics. doi:10.1542/peds.2024-066854.

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ABIM

JUNE 12, 2025

Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations. Representatives from the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) joined for a portion of the meeting*.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Joseph Gaugler is the Director of the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation at the University of Minnesota, director of the BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving, and Editor-in-Chief of the Gerontologist. Should it? If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? Who should get it if anyone? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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PEMBlog

MAY 1, 2025

Well break down the virology, epidemiology, clinical presentation, and complications of Parvovirus B19. Formulate an evidence-based management plan for patients with suspected or confirmed Parvovirus B19, including those with underlying hemolytic disease or immunocompromise. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

My take home from this is that while the most preferred explanation for deprescribing statins and sedative-hypnotics is one focused on the risk of side effects, we also need to individualize it to the patient and the medication that they are taking. Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome a wonderful group to talk about deprescribing.

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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. Summary Transcript Summary. What would it take to transform dementia care?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

During this episode, we hear from Dr. Nav Persaud, a staff physician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital in Unity Health Toronto, and Dr. Alika Lafontaine, the current President of the Canadian Medical Association.

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CDOCS

MAY 4, 2021

Without this additional skill set and post graduate training I simply could not deliver the results that my patients deserve. & A healthy 46-year-old patient who has lived for over 30 years with missing bilateral maxillary incisors desired a fixed solution to his problem.

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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.

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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

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. Summary Transcript Summary. Transcript. Here we go.

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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. You can continue to use your insurance for medications and for labs as well.

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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. Should you stop at “no?” That’s a huge amount of news all at once.

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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. Bennett, C.R.,

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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?

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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.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 13: Centering Asian Americans: Racism, Violence, and Health Show Notes by Naomi F. Understand how engaged community-based work, centered on trust and accountability, has supported the health of communities served by Oakland, CA’s Asian Health Service.

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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. And I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive. Alex 02:21 For Eric 02:21 For unrepresented older adults.

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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? Summary Transcript Summary “Anxiety is a lot like a toddler. It never stops talking, tells you you’re wrong about everything, and wakes you up at 3 a.m.”

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

It’s a jampacked 50 minutes, filled with pearls on taking care of patients with liver disease. (or should we call it HepatoPal?) Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Excited to be here.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients? If you believe the evidence for efficacy to manage symptoms like neuropathic pain, how do you even start to think about recommending these products to patients?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Patients may feel like falls are just part of normal aging. This is Sarah Berry, who is at the Hebrew Senior Life and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical center and Harvard Medical School. Summary Transcript CME Summary Falls are very common among older adults but often go unreported or untreated by healthcare providers. Happy to be here.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary For surgeons and patients, deciding if and when to operate can be challenging. Often, the way surgeons communicate about these decisions doesn’t make things any easier for themselves or their patients. We hope you enjoy this episode. Justin, welcome to GeriPal. Justin: Hello. It’s great to be here.

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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. He’s in Boston. Parag 01:06 Thank you.

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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. The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

This discussion is hosted by Naomi Fields, MD, Chioma Onuoha, and Victor Lopez-Carmen MPH, as they interview Dr. Kozhimannil—the Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Rural Health Research Center.

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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. Jace, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Noelle Marie 01:19 Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors.

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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?” That rings true to me. All hands go down.

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

From The Children’s Foundation : In celebration of Black History Month, we are reflecting and honoring the contributions Black leaders have made toward the advancement of equality and improvement of children’s health and wellness, both historically and in the present day. It doesn’t always have to be about mental illness.”

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