Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

JANUARY 24, 2022

Blood pressure is the pressure of blood “pushing against the walls of your arteries” As blood rushes from your heart to other organs, it helps to replenish nutrients and transport oxygen. Too low of a blood pressure could be fatal for these organs and on the flip side, too high of a blood pressure is also fatal. What is my goal?

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Hypertension Family Medicine DO Complication 40

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. Focusing a lot on when to image, when not to image, and how to communicate imaging decisions effectively with families.

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Family Families Hospital Patient-Centered 102

Dr. Michael Bazel

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Located just below the bladder, it produces seminal fluid, which nourishes and transports sperm. The prostate is a small gland that plays a significant role in male reproductive health. While small in size, the prostate can become a source of major health concerns, particularly as men age. Let’s explore these connections in detail.

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Transportation Provider Management Consulting 130

StorytellERdoc

APRIL 11, 2014

And with this visual of her swing set, I was suddenly transported back to my own childhood--back to the powder-blue swing set that sat in our family's yard alongside the lilac bushes and sandbox. Moments that were no more. Back to the rusted swing set with the plastic pony sitting under the mulberry tree at Gramma's house.

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Specialization Family Families Transportation 100

Priority Physicians

JANUARY 27, 2025

Many of us know where our meals come from, have sufficient clothing, enjoy roofs over our heads, access heating and air conditioning, use reliable transportation, and receive effective medications. We all want to know how to stop fearing the future. Although anxiety appears to be the new malady du jour , much of it is natural and normal.

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Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Board-Certified Physicals 52

Vascular Physician

JUNE 27, 2021

Typically harmless, varicose veins may occur when the uterus applies pressure to the large vein (inferior vena cava) which transports blood back to the heart from your lower extremities (feet or legs). Varicose veins run in the family for only 50% of all people who have them. Myth #2: Only women get varicose veins.

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Primary Care Physician Insurance Transportation Patients 52

PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

The ED setting presents an overwhelming burden of demands on providers’ time, limiting their ability to engage in comprehensive shared decision making with families that may have mitigated testing if only they had the time to explain their reasoning. However, the impact of such resources has not yet been deeply explored.

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Asthma Electronics Utilities Clinical Practice 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

About 90% were either currently or formerly undocumented, 2/3 spoke Spanish, 2/3 made <$50,000 annually, and 1/3 reported inadequate transportation. Cancer Screening: Challenges with making appointments and getting PAP Smears due to time, employment, transportation, and lack of established primary care provider.

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Diagnosis Screening Transportation Diagnose 130

StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

I dedicate this to each of you who have cared for or are currently caring for an ill parent or family member. I had just rounded the corner of one of our busier hallways near our noisy triage area to find a favorite aide leading a family from our waiting room down the hallway toward their assigned room. You get the picture, right?

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ER Family Families Transportation 100

StorytellERdoc

JULY 17, 2020

His transport from his house to our department had been less than ten minutes and the pre-hospital team had done an excellent job of intubating this patient and establishing an IV to begin resuscitation efforts. As the cardiologist and our ER team continued with resuscitation efforts, I went to the family room to speak to this patient's wife.

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ER Family Families Patients 100

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. There were trip hazards, loose carpets, some people were hoarders. Their job was done. This is a first for our GeriPal podcast, right, Alex?

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Community Transportation IT PCP 114

Vascular Physician

DECEMBER 20, 2020

This free blood clot can be transported throughout the arteries until it becomes lodged in a narrowed artery away from its original location. A few risk factors are listed below: Smoking Hypertension Family history Advanced age How many types of aneurysms are there? This blockage of blood flow is called ischemia.

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Transportation Hypertension Complication Management 52

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. But watch out!

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

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). There is a dearth of Certified Driving Rehab Specialists: 12 for the entire state of Colorado!

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Family Families IT Diagnosis 102

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. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions. Can you guys do that one?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

She came from an activist family, with her mother being one of the first South Asian feminist activists in the country. She started in the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia around Sayantani, and wanted to focus on incarceration as a healthcare issue, and has since engaged in work that attempts to decarcerate health care.

Community 52

Community Education Patient-Centered Relationship 52

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The hospital refused without a court order, and the case eventually made its way to the Supreme Court. Arguing for the state of Missouri against the Cruzan’s was Ken Starr, who would later be assigned the role of special prosecutor in the investigation of the Clintons (Whitewater, Lewensky, etc). They shake their heads, they say I’ve changed.

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Family Families Patient-Centered IT 112

The Physicians Foundation

MAY 20, 2025

Rose empowered individuals to overcome barriers to better health—helping families access resources that truly matter. He developed a streamlined workflow to screen for these critical DOHs and ensure that families received timely support. As the U.S.

Chronic Disease 40

Chronic Disease Screening Transportation Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We’ve also invited two amazing cardiologists, Parag Goyal and Nicole Superville, to join us about GDMT in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and in Heart Failure with preserved EF (HFpEF). He’s in Boston. He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge. Parag 01:06 Thank you.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

for the immediate subsequent recipient (other than a transporter) of the food); Quantity and unit of measure of the food; Product description for the food; Relevant dates (e.g., What information firms must maintain and share under the rule depends on the type of activities they perform in the supply chain with respect to an FTL food.

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Supply Chain Illness Family Families 52

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

One final note on the song request: About 20 years ago I took an epidemiology course as part of a Masters program. The instructor, Fran Cook , gave all the students a survey without explanation. We answered the survey and handed it in. One of the questions was, “Can you name a song by the Tragically Hip?” Eric 00:18 Throwing us off.

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IT Community Patients Family 107

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I would say the drugs didn’t change as much as all the stuff about sexuality and about family dynamics and spirituality: all the things that I’m hoping people will get from this book. This book is terrific, truly comprehensive, and is a go to resource for when I’m “stuck” taking care of patients with cancer. . AlexSmithMD.

Management 101

Management IT Patients Family 101

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Kathleen 03:47 I think any of us who’ve spent any time in nursing homes have spent time working in a nursing home setting, have visited, had family members in nursing homes and looked around and seen the population there. Cari 01:42 I would like to request Hallelujah, one of my favorite songs. Eric 02:00 Okay, I got a question for you.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Consider it a supplement to what you remember from Biochemistry and the instructions on the family’s laminated care plan sheet. Since an individual must have two copies of the mutation to be affected, the parents and other family members who have one copy, which are known as carriers, will be unaffected. Updated 2023 Jul 17].

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Consulting Individual Family Families 59

Doctor Rachel

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

The list of activities that you need to coordinate are daunting: financial accounting, work, cohabitation and the creation and maintenance of a home, health issues, family responsibilities, sex and romance, and possibly childcare, elder care and religion. It doesn’t really SOUND fun, but here’s the thing. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”

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Relationship Community IT Family 130

GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

How do you find time to write and also be doctors and academic professors? Revisions and working with editors Writing an Op Ed – how to start, what to write, where to send it TheOpEdProject as a resource for learning more We look forward to the books and op-eds our listeners will write! Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Rosanne.

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IT Healthcare Professional Healthcare Transportation 105

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Summary Transcript Summary You may have heard of Area Agencies on Aging, but do you really know what they do or how they do it?

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By John Scott Frazer, Glenn Ross Frazer Reference : Frazer JS , Frazer GR, Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e001143.

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Primary Care Supply Chain General Practitioner Vaccination 40

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In addition to discussing these outcomes, we also discuss: The history of the hospital-at-home movement. The practicalities of how it works including who are good candidates, where does it start (the ED?), what happens at home, do you need a caregiver, what happens if they need something like imaging? How is it financed and what comes next?

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

Kennedy Jr. forced him out in May. While it’s possible that Nath’s patients suffered covid vaccine injuries, Marks said, their symptoms were so varied it was hard to characterize a possible syndrome. But for Dressen and others convinced the vaccines injured them, their experiences were symptomatic of a well-intentioned but flawed U.S.

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Vaccination Patient-Centered Government IT 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

All states except Alaska have at least one provider tax on managed care plans, hospitals, nursing homes, emergency ground transportation, or other types of health care businesses. Although it’s unclear how much states could lose, the revenue up for grabs is big. For instance, California has netted an estimated $8.8

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