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A Goal Fulfilled

Noreta Family Medicine

Fast forward to the present day in which I am a practicing Direct Primary Care (DPC) family physician. I have personally seen the benefits of Direct Primary Care for both patients and doctors, but there is very little published research about DPC. 1 – Doing research is time-consuming.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. What should we use to screen individuals? Should it? If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? Who should get it if anyone? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Both conditions can present with similar symptoms. Adolescents with GERD often present similarly to adults with heartburn and regurgitation as the primary complaints. And the presentation for GERD varies by age. Now there are some risk factors for GERD.

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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. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program.

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

GeriPal

Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. But I believe before we start, somebody has a song request for Alex. Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is. Eric: What’s the song? Emmy: I just forgot the name of the song… [laughter]. Alex: Pink Cadillac by Bruce Springsteen?

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

But, it’s also hard not to be bullish on the future of the field to see the consistent strides geriatrics has made in the last two decades in improving care for older adults. I’ve seen this question come up a lot since finishing fellowship nearly two decades ago. Mike, welcome to GeriPal. Mike: Great to be here. It was JAMA, right?

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

Nate also wrote a NEJM piece last year on Alzheimers Disease, Biomarkers, and mAbs What Does Primary Care Need? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Nate 01:11 Very healthy man.