Barton Associates

JUNE 19, 2025

In fact, hospitals, clinics, and other facilities are already reeling from a shortage of providers and it’s hurting patients— according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , tens of millions of Americans live in areas with shortages of primary care, dental, and mental health professionals.

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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. It’s underappreciated, I think, by providers and by patients. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. Everybody has a primary care doctor, a primary care nurse, a team. So we have such a large population of incarcerated people. There are clinics.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

And I think that I love this paper you wrote because the audience or the patients that you focused on in the last four years in particular also in a Venn diagram, like many of the same patients I care for in home based primary care. You know, she had created some work in the virtual space.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

We sort of set physicians, or I would say we set medical providers up a little bit when we say, you really should us ask, but then we don’t give them the resources or the sense of training about what to do next. So most of us in primary care, it’s probably even worse. We just don’t have time.

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