Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care.

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East Cary Family Physicians

JULY 26, 2023

Regular health check-ups are a cornerstone of preventive healthcare, allowing us to catch potential health issues early and maintain a better quality of life. In this blog, we will explore the significance of regular health check-ups and how they contribute to your overall well-being. What are Regular Health Check-ups?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Case management in primary healthcare has been documented as a promising integrated care approach to overcome fragmented care faced by adults with complex healthcare and social needs (hereafter complex needs). Research team members were involved in key steps of the analysis in an iterative process.

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Family Physicians of Greeley

MAY 17, 2023

Maintaining good mental health is essential for our overall well-being. In today’s fast-paced and often stressful world, it’s important to prioritize self-care and adopt strategies that promote mental well-being. Establish Healthy Sleep Patterns: Adequate sleep is crucial for mental health and cognitive function.

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Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

Across the United States, tens of millions of Americans live in areas with shortage s of primary care, dental, and mental health professionals. Many healthcare facilities in the U.S. are already struggling with staffing shortages , but others have turned to healthcare staffing agencies like Barton Associates to fill in the gaps.

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Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Tired of feeling like just a number in a healthcare system? Ever wished you could have a doctor who truly knows you, your health history, and your goals? Direct primary care (DPC) is a membership-based healthcare model that offers patients unlimited access to a primary care physician for a fixed monthly fee.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 2, 2025

The title, Drugs vs. DTx, is a classic case of the “it’s complicated” relationship status. But there is another upside: it allows a certain kind of privacy, bringing treatments to the patients’ homes, and removing stigmas typically connected to a number of therapies, either in substance abuse care or in mental health.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Incarceration of BIPOC mothers 29:30 Health Impacts on Children and Young Adults with History of Parental Incarceration 35:24 Remedying Health of Women and Children Impacted by the Criminal Legal System 45:55 Key takeaways Episode Takeaways: Prisons are not places of healing.

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The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

State Highlights: Montana provides 65% of its medical training in community-based settings, far surpassing the national average of 16%. Along with tracking the health of primary care, the Scorecard provides progress updates on the NASEM report’s policy recommendations for federal and state governments, health care organizations, and payers.

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Physicians News Digest

JUNE 26, 2025

Too often mischaracterized as exclusively involving surgery and hormones, this care is provided thoughtfully and with the involvement of multidisciplinary teams of physicians, mental health professionals, families, and most importantly, young people themselves.

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

Alex: Here, I thought it was just like a relationship tension and breakup song. I personally think there is no excuse for us not to be providing in getting CBTI for our patients. But in the clinic, through mental health, I’m able to get CBTI pretty readily for my patients. But okay, that’s better.

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The Physicians Foundation

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Urgent Need for Solutions to Improve State of Current and Future Physician Wellbeing BOSTON, September 17, 2024 – The Physicians Foundation issued data today showing that the state of wellbeing remains critically low for physicians, with healthcare consolidation exacerbating the issue.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Discover the Best Primary Care in Michigan As an experienced doctor who has worked with thousands of patients across Michigan, I can confidently say that finding the right primary care provider is one of the most important decisions you can make for your health. Primary care is your go-to for all things health-related.

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 11, 2025

Preventive care is often referred to as the first line of defense in healthcare—and for good reason. In this blog, we’ll break down what preventive care involves, explore its relationship with short-term health insurance, and explain why it’s a critical part of staying healthy at any stage of life. What Is Preventive Care?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Content Warning: This episode contains themes of violence, trauma-induced mental health concerns, and brief mentions of suicide. Appreciate how intergenerational trauma may surface amongst Asian-Americans, and how these intergenerational relationships may also offer fertile ground for generating understanding.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

Episode Learning Objectives After listening to this episode, learners will be able to: Illustrate the relationship between narrative medicine and healing relationships. What the term gestures towards is the centering of the ‘story’ in healing relationships. The show notes for this episode were written by Sudarshan Krishnamurthy.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. 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.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 5, 2022

This is the last of three episodes interrogating the relationships between race, place, housing, and health. Kushel and Mr. Watts remind healthcare providers to speak out about the structural causes of homelessness. Push back against discussions that homelessness is caused by substance use or mental health problems.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Isom continues the conversation around the intentionality of these structural processes and the language that frames the racialization of substance use in the United States by lawmakers, media, and the healthcare profession. They can use their training and privilege to advocate for meaningful policy reform.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. With their regular providers? And really learning from them about what kinds of things healthcare might provide, that might be of help to them. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

But, finding ways to do so can prove illuminating as well as rewarding. Pearls Built Environment, Physical Health, and Mental Health Dr. South detailed that there are clear physical health benefits associated with place-based interventions, but unfortunately many lots and buildings sit vacant and destitute across the US.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Knowing that the community is really underrepresented in sort of our knowledge, what we do, how we provide care that’s truly inclusive and welcoming. And this is for all of us, that when we’re going into this space of providing inclusive and affirming care, it really starts out with humility, because there’s a lot to learn.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

-Alex End Well Talk [link] Resources on the PEACH Program Program Review Paper A recent publication in Longwoods Healthcare Quarterly reviewing the PEACH model. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. those experiencing homelessness).

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson have no relationships to disclose. I think for families and for other providers who are not trained in that, it’s very hard to predict. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP297 “The Nature of Suffering” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for the annual CME subscription ( cost is $100 for a year’s worth of CME podcasts ), you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. 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. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. I think- Eric: I was going to say that. Katie: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP293 “What’s Up With MAID in Canada” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for CME, you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Check out some of their recent work, including: Dr. Holt-Lunstad’s and Dr. Perissinotto’s powerful perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine which provides a clinical framework for addressing loneliness and social isolation. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So falls, mobility concerns, polypharmacy, comorbidities, nutrition, social support, and mental health. But I think if I were under normal constraints of the healthcare system, I wouldn’t have that time. So we tend to talk in terms of a geriatric assessment, the key domains. And Mazie mentioned a few earlier.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

And then I immediately realized that I was fighting going into a mental health discipline because of my parents’ background in mental health as psychologists. It is an indicator that to provide the best care, we need to go deeper into trying to understand what the dynamics are there. That was one thing.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? And then I’d also imagine from a quality of life perspective, like a one time visit by a palliative care provider, I can’t imagine it really significantly improving quality of life unless there was robust like the symptom.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

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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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

This week we’ve invited three guests to share their stories about storytelling that’s written for healthcare providers. Today we’re going to be talking about narrative writing specifically for healthcare professionals. What motivated you to reach out to the healthcare audience in this way? Liz: That’s right.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

So our elders who are people of color, people who live in places that are already challenged by poor air quality and those things and access to healthcare, they also have greater risks. What do we do to very concretely provide heat shelters and cool shelters? Why is it up to the healthcare system? Ruth: Yeah. So we could go on.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So at our cancer center, we have physicians, advanced practice providers. They had access to the cancer center resources, but they didn’t have access to sort of regular contact with palliative care mental health professionals. As Pahlavi said, you could refer to other providers. Was that the same at MGH for.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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