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

Mesa Family Physician

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. Arizona’s climate and lifestyle present specific health considerations that our Mesa-based medical professionals are specially trained to address.

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

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But you worry that the advance directive does not provide enough guidance for the specific decision at Yael Jo, do you. So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. It doesn’t provide enough guidance for the clinicians to make decisions.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

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And this complete lack of attention to the real needs of persons with dementia is really kind of a shameful part of US healthcare. Ken 26:17 You presented that. So Tim Anderson did a wonderful study looking at hypertensive management in the hospital. Eric 26:13 Was actually one of mine. But of course it is, actually.

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On Racism & Ageism: Ramona Rhodes, Sharon Brangman, Tim Farrell, and Nancy Lundebjerg

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Don’t worry about it,” or they never had good treatment for their hypertension for so many years or their diabetes, so they were much, much more advanced at a younger age. Because we know- Sharon: Maybe diabetes and hypertension, which is so prominent in African Americans can impact your amyloid deposition.

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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

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Has the usual collection of chronic diseases, paroxysmal afib, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, adult diabetes, a little anemia, a little edema, a little mild cognitive impairment. It’s one of my old, old patients. He’s 91, lives in assisted living, has been diagnosed with HF , HF preserved ejection. I don’t know.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Trauma is a universal experience, and our approach as health care providers to trauma should be universal as well. And we often do, as healthcare providers, care for people who are going through traumatic events, through just being sick in the hospital or a home or dying at home.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

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I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address it. I think I’m preventing some potential extra non synthesis that is not happening because you are lacking that bottleneck little hydrosoluble vitamin that might be present. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢.

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