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Primary Care Clinician Perspectives on Managing Hypertension in Black Patients: Lifestyle Changes and Shared Decision Making [Hypertension]

Annals of Family Medicine

Categorical factors are presented as frequency counts and percentages, and compared between groups using Chi-square or Fisher’s Exact test. Continuous factors are presented as median and interquartile range, and compared between groups using Mann Whitney Wilcoxon tests. Study Design and Analysis: Cross-sectional study.

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Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Mesa Family Physician

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. Regular visits to your primary care physician at Mesa Family Physicians provide opportunities for early detection of potential health issues before they become serious problems.

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Physician Support Groups (Sundays) | Peer Support for Doctors

Pamela Wible MD

Our written chat is shared only with members present during the session. Physician Peer Support FAQ – Common Questions Answered Are groups truly confidential? Nothing you say is ever recorded. We adhere to a strict code of confidentiality. Can I be anonymous?

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

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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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

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. So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families. Wonderful work.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

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. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Alex 01:57 Joe, which city are you joining from?

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

Alex 00:30 And we are also delighted to welcome Eloise Theisen, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner at Stanford and CEO and co- c ounder of Radical Health Clinician Network, which helps patients use cannabis to treat chronic and age related illness. And I returned to school to become a nurse practitioner.

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