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

GeriPal

Alex 00:12 We have a guest host who has requested this episode, Matt Shuster, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. Because I also feel like we target people’s low sodium diets in the hospital. He’s in Boston. Alex 04:47 Probably was, yeah.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. Eric: This comes down to also like, if I find… As an oncologist, somebody has very high hypertension, is it my role to control that hypertension? That probably happened after the podcast. Most oncologists would say no.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

As a general practitioner and primary care researcher, it was always fascinating for me to delve into the scientific literature to investigate this issue. The following graph shows the striking difference in premature mortality between countries with weak or strong primary care: 2. Here are the key results.

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

GeriPal

You know, we may have known people, we may have cared for people who were dying. 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. Like, does that indirect? Is that also a trauma? Kate 41:32 Yeah.

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2024 Summer Pinecones E-Newsletter -- ADVOCACY News

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

Topics on the AAFP agenda included: Improving Access to Primary Care for High Deductible Health Plans Enrollees - high deductible plans discourage patients from accessing primary to deal with problems such as diabetes and hypertension and delay care, leading to worsening health outcomes.