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What Does Behavioral Health Provider Practice in Primary Care Look Like? [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Visits were largely scheduled individual visits (85%), provided in person (70%), and involving psychotherapy (90%). BHPs interacted with practice team members of all roles, but spent the most time consulting with medical providers, social workers, care managers, and nurses. Intervention: NA.

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Researchers Propose Solutions to Improve GLP-1 RA Access

Physician's Weekly

Society all too often conceptualizes obesity as a problem of individual willpower, which could reduce the demand for pharmacological treatments among those who are most affected and who have the potential for greatest benefit,” the researchers said.

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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

My take home from this is that while the most preferred explanation for deprescribing statins and sedative-hypnotics is one focused on the risk of side effects, we also need to individualize it to the patient and the medication that they are taking. Maybe that’s where the individualizing it, the person that’s front of me.

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

GeriPal

The SAMHSA defines trauma as an event, series events or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual. Well, being a pretty comprehensive definition.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual. So it provided just a gem of something, connection around this story that had both been meaningful to both individuals, we’re humans too, clinicians. And I’ve had that happen.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? Barbara: You do.

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

GeriPal

Eric: So in some ways, this is kind of like the VA, where you don’t have to follow Medicare guidelines, but you can actually actively do concurrent care for these individuals. Because I feel like as a medical provider of taking care of somebody, the man in the hallway, I’ve known that person for 15 years. Keith: Yes.

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