Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

An expert panel unveiled a preoperative cannabis use assessment tool to aid in planning informed, individualized anesthesia and analgesia patient care. An expert panel has created a preoperative cannabis use assessment tool to aid healthcare professionals in planning informed, individualized anesthesia and analgesia care for patients.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The moral distress experienced by primary care professionals during the pandemic has not been discussed in the extensive literature on health system functioning during the pandemic. Intervention/Instrument: Individual semi-structured interviews and review of pertinent case-relevant documents.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population studied: Key informants involved in the implementation: people with complex needs (n = 2), managers (n = 17), hospital case manager (n = 1), case managers in primary care clinics (n = 14), project managers (n = 2), physicians in charge of participating clinics (n = 4), and other healthcare professionals (n = 2).

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My Green Doctor

APRIL 4, 2025

Heather Massey, Sustainability Programs Manager hmassey@mygreendoctor.org (469) 877-4608 Make the Pledge Today! It tells your office colleagues and patients that your healthcare practice or clinic is committed to forging a healthier work space and community. The healthcare sector contributes 8.5% Contact us today! of total U.S.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

To diagnose and treat a patient, a healthcare professional listens to the patient, reads their health files, looks at medical images and interprets laboratory results. These systems will considerably reduce the workload of – but not replace- human healthcare professionals. AI used in the hospital.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 2, 2025

These could even make cough monitoring as common as step tracking to inform individual patients and provide doctors with deeper health insights. If we’ve been managing without such a metric so far, then is there any reason to invest further in this? The recording can then be played back to a healthcare professional for review.

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Center for Family Medicine

MAY 7, 2025

As the body loses more fluids through increased urination, it triggers a dehydration response, making individuals affected feel constantly thirsty. When cells cannot access glucose for energy due to insulin issues, individuals affected may feel constantly tired, sluggish, or mentally foggy. This creates a vicious cycle.

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Family Physicians of Greeley

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The eyes are particularly vulnerable to the effects of diabetes, and routine exams play a pivotal role in preventing and managing diabetic retinopathy, a serious eye condition that can lead to vision impairment or even blindness. These changes can result in vision loss if not detected and managed promptly.

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Dr. Michael Bazel

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

It’s also not ideal for pregnant or breastfeeding individuals who have increased nutritional needs. For some individuals, these symptoms persist, making it difficult to stick with the regimen. Also Read: What Is Nutrition Counseling and How it Can Help You Achieve Your Weight Management Goals Who Should Consider Intermittent Fasting?

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Center for Family Medicine

MAY 14, 2025

Effective arthritis relief includes lifestyle changes such as regular low-impact exercise, weight management, and a diet rich in antioxidants. With appropriate treatment and proactive measures, individuals with arthritis can improve daily life while minimizing discomfort and adding years of relief.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

The emergency room has become a pressure cooker, and healthcare professionals are paying the price. 3 , 4 From Personal Safety to Culture Change ESD training protects individuals while fostering team confidence, enhancing communication, reducing fear and burnout, and contributing to a safer work environment. The Warner Bros.

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Rao Doctor

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

F (37°C), although this can vary slightly among individuals and throughout the day. Understanding the fundamental aspects of fever is crucial for effective management and treatment. Each pattern provides diagnostic insight, leading to more effective management of the patient’s condition. What does fever do?

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

Powering Health, Protecting the Planet – Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Healthcare professionals have always been trusted voices on public health. PMC Environmental and Health Benefits – Lower Carbon Emissions : The healthcare sector is responsible for approximately 8.5% The use of medications in U.S.

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Further, finding the correct balance between pursuing my writing passion while still managing the business side of a blog was challenging as well. managing significant educational debt, navigating physician mortgages, owning your own practice, etc.). This may be a bold statement, but I believe it to be true. Catch you on the next post.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. Eric: And for those individuals, do we know anything? This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

Eric: Drew, what I’m also hearing from you though in your post is maybe there’s something different about people doing primary palliative care and pain management versus specialty palliative care. And then again, individualizing it to the patient. Eric: Drew, both of our fourth step is individualizing it.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of life care Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Incontinence and avoiding issues can present in an older individual, in some cases, just like they do a younger person. Biological aging or physiological aging varies from individual to individual. How do you think about this from a clinical perspective when you’re seeing individuals in your office? Everybody ages.

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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. Maybe that’s where the individualizing it, the person that’s front of me.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What should we use to screen individuals? So I think we’re poised now with the guide model and with the evidence we have about healthcare utilization, impact on caregivers, course of dementia, comorbidity management and all of that. Who should get it if anyone? What happens after they test positive?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. And so to develop that equation, they use the cohort of individuals and their data, their blood samples, creatine and other physical attributes.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

But two, a very close relationship with potentially the palliative care physician or the individual who’s Sort of managing their pain, because the simulation itself can be 20 to 30 minutes of lying in that specific treatment position. So we need to have a discussion upfront about how we’re managing the patient’s pain.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. Fever in infants under three months, a fever lasting more than three days, or a fever in individuals with weakened immune systems should be promptly addressed by a doctor for appropriate management and treatment.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary We recently published a podcast on palliative care for kidney failure, focusing on conservative kidney management. Today we’re going to focus upstream on the decision to initiate dialysis vs conservative kidney management. For example, with peritoneal dialysis and conservative management.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

There are a lot of old myths out there about managing urinary tract symptoms and UTI’s in older adults. Then we chat with Scott Bauer, internist and researcher at UCSF, about how to assess and manage lower urinary tract symptoms in men. Summary Transcript Summary. Chrissy: That’s fascinating.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Noelle Marie 01:24 I think it really speaks a lot to my own personal journey and I’m pretty sure a lot of trans and gender diverse individuals also resonate with and it really speaks about our transition, celebrating our authentic selves, how society views us and how we view ourselves when we stand in front of a mirror.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today. Jessie: Thank you.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. However, there are “Red Flag” symptoms that require urgent evaluation and management.

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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. But we’re not perfect individuals.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Ishwaria 05:29 And that’s really how this field of professional well being, healthcare professional well being, clinician well being, has evolved, is that there is an important place in our overall professional well being for personal resilience and our individual coping strategies, recovery methods from day to day.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. Eric: But before we jump into talking to your patients about driving retirement cessation, let’s talk about what is the role of the healthcare professional in this at all? Alex: Yeah. Is this our role? Emmy: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

They argue that the current guidelines, which prioritize immunocompromised people and unvaccinated older people on the same level, should be re-done to prioritize the immunocompromised first, and additionally move up older vaccinated individuals or vaccinated persons with comorbidities. What’s wrong with that? Why not prioritize them?

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM. I also heard that if you look at all individuals in the US, about 4% of individuals are taking one of the gabapentinoids, 10% over 65. J Am Geriatr Soc. Nisha: Both of them are generic, yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

And I would say we weren’t doing training on symptom management, for example. And then there was a lot of stuff on coping and symptom management. You know, those rooms could be managed by oncology or somebody else who needs to see people in person. But it really does need some individualizing. And well skilled.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended?

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

So folks that are having refractory ascites or refractory encephalopathies, challenging emotional symptom management as well. As this patient has an x percent mortality in three months, there’s a little more nuance to it, and it isn’t really applied to the individual. Sarah 24:19 Well, I don’t know. I mean, is it.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Katie: Well, if we just look at what we can do ourselves for our bodies, I mean strengthening, balance training, working on motor control, keeping ourselves fed so that we maintain our proper nutrients in our body so we can maintain an upright position, those are all key things an individual hopefully would be trying to do as best as they could.

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