PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

In individuals with celiac disease, gluten intake leads to an immune mediated inflammatory response that damages the small intestine’s mucosal lining, specifically the villi. You should have the child follow up with their primary care doctor often after about 10 to 14 days on the acid blocking regimen that you prescribed.

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Diagnosis Management IT Patient-Centered 52

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Most sore throats heal on their own, but severe cases may require urgent care. Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. If your symptoms get worse before your appointment, you may need to go to urgent care.

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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.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Whether you need a routine physical, vaccination, or management of a chronic illness, this clinic has you covered with a focus on holistic and individualized care. Detroit residents appreciate the clinic’s focus on fast, efficient care in a bustling city environment.

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Clinic Chronic Disease Management Primary Care Medical 52

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

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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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia. So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-life care, and similar consequences. We’re available, palliative care.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

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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Family Families IT Community 132

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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? Of these interventions in those individuals. Nate 23:45 Well, so.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 96

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. Whenever I take care of a patient, I see myself as a family practice doctor, but I’ve been a hospitalist, I’ve been a primary care doctor, and I’ve done palliative. John: I’m okay… Again, this is human-based care.

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Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

And that’s what gets me excited for our future, is being able to interact with those individuals and attract them early and keep them hooked, I think is one of Jerry and my story. How do we train primary care doctors to do geriatrics? “You’ll not be the richest doctor, but you will be the most satisfied.”

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GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

And that’s really fast and I don’t have a lot of time in my visit and there’s all this conversation about primary care and I’m a primary care doctor. And so we did learn in that study that even… Here we were trying to take the burden off primary care doctors.

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Screening PCP PCP IT 99

GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

And in my medical training, becoming a primary care doctor, I realized that older adults, women and men were having a lot of these same symptoms. Very interested in decision making around as we get older, individualizing care, sort of patient centered, values driven, it’s a tough decision to figure out.

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Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have. Although, certainly when you start facing complications of serious illness, it is increasingly important to engage as individuals and conversations about goals, values, and preferences. I think it’s all about how important.

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Illness IT Healthcare Patient-Centered 73

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

A recent study of almost 3 million US patients showed that those who visited primary care were much more likely to receive preventive services : 127% more vaccinations, 122% more colonoscopies, and 75% more mammograms. In other words, patients can get more services, more easily, more appropriately.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 4, 2025

The episode emphasizes thoughtful, individualized care in the context of rising vaccine hesitancy and declining immunization rates. Can they follow up with their primary care doctor or at your facility within 24 to 48 hours? Are they well hydrated and demonstrating good oral intake?

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Vaccination Illness IT Clinic 66

Physicians News Digest

APRIL 17, 2025

It is the policy of NIH not to prioritize research activities that focuses gaining scientific knowledge on why individuals are hesitant to be vaccinated and/or explore ways to improve vaccine interest and commitment,” the notice read. That’s when he got the notice from the NIH. “It

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