Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Look for a provider who supports a personalized approach , combining: Diet and exercise counseling Medication optimization Blood sugar monitoring Mental health considerations This shows a commitment to treating you, not just your blood sugar numbers. Firsthand referrals often lead to trusted and patient-focused providers.

Diabetes 52

Diabetes Board-Certified Management Internal Medicine 52

Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Physicians often neglect their own mental health for a variety of reasons, tuning in late to the need is just one factor. I like to encourage all physicians to have their own doctor that they could bring this up to for referral to therapist. It may be that you are needing professional help.

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IT Patient-Centered Physicals Medical Student 130

Vascular Physician

JULY 11, 2021

Raynaud phenomenon is more common in young women and in those with a family history. Educating patients on the link between emotional stress and Raynaud's phenomenon is important and attention to mental health disorders should be considered. Vasoconstriction of the digits can also occur due to emotional stress.

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Referral Mental Health Patients Screening 52

Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 11, 2025

A recent article in the BMJ summarized a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline on identification and management of gambling-related harms. People with gambling disorder are at increased risk for self-harm and suicide attempts.

Management 59

Management Referral Mental Health Community 59

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Eric: So you could probably tell we’re going to be talking about mental health issues. In particular, mental health integration and issues in pain and in palliative care. So how we screen for mental health distress is really important. Des, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Eric: Yeah.

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Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

It’s like a long, I don’t know, almost like a quarter-mile centipede with legs, and the legs are the housing units, the medical units, inpatient mental health. We have about 450 inpatient mental health beds. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. They suffered from it.

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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Eric 07:08 Which of the patients that you think you’re helpful for, you want referrals? Eric 11:05 So is there a trigger or what’s your referral criteria for the outpatient clinic? I think for families and for other providers who are not trained in that, it’s very hard to predict.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 109

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

That’s why we use the terms assessment and intervention and we think of assessment as a skill of a very advanced skill that chaplains have of doing an in-depth evaluation of a patient or family member, and then the interventions should certainly follow naturally from that. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Have you had a family history of substance use disorder? When we take a mental health history, for example, I think we ask people, we do the PHQ, or whatever it is that we’re doing, asking people that mood. And they ask questions like, have you used substances? Most of our population has trauma. Katie: Yeah. Jessie: Right.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. 80% died exactly where they wanted to and 83% were reconnected to family or friends through a psychosocial support system that we put into place.

Healthcare 100

Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

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. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral. I don’t know if we captured where the hospice referral came from. So the problem of, hey, look at us, we promise we’ll be helpful.

Patient-Centered 119

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And it was really good for my mental and physical… Physical health, obviously, but mental health really. We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. It’s hard for your family to know. It’s part of our family mythology. Is that right?

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98