Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

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Diabetes 52

Diabetes Board-Certified Management Internal Medicine 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So it’s just a wide-opening lens that most of us never really get to see if we’re on the hospital-based side. I was like, “I have all these things I’m doing in the hospital to try to make people better and then I might be sending them right back to a big hazardous environment.” Eric: Oh, no.

Community 114

Community Transportation IT PCP 114

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.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. 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. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Nisha. Nisha: Thank you so much.

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered IT Healthcare Medical 96

GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

They were hospitalized but something comes up about mammography screening and it can be really quick. I talk to women 75 and older or something like it’s my job as your PCP to recommend tests that I think will lead to more good than to harm. And so we recruited 546 women and they were from 137 different PCPs.

Screening 99

Screening PCP PCP IT 99