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How to Find the Right Pulmonology Doctor Near Me: What Connecticut Patients Should Know

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

You may want to see a pulmonologist if: You have unexplained lung symptoms: If you have shortness of breath, a persistent cough, other lung symptoms, your primary care doctor may recommend seeing a pulmonologist for specialized testing. Can you send messages to your pulmonologist or other members of the care team?

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

GeriPal

The initial RCT published on physician coaching in JAMA in 2019 showing that coaching improves quality of life. This is the first RCT that was available for coaching in physicians. [link] 5. Beth: Right now, I’m actually just doing individual coaching, but we are writing a grant to start group coaching next year.

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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.