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

GeriPal

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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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. So just starting to unpack what’s happening in an individual’s life can maybe then lead to more conversations and assessment. And I send my report back to the doctor, just to be able to have that dialogue.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

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. Michele: So the patients within the Department of Corrections, there are doctors at every facility. Everybody has a primary care doctor, a primary care nurse, a team.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

Adherence to medical advice improves and unnecessary self-referrals to other doctors decrease. GPs Provide Most Healthcare The following graph shows that by far most patient/doctor contacts are with GPs. Also, consider joining my short and informative e-mail newsletter (‘ Golden Nuggets of Family Medicine ’).