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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. We’re doing a lot of interactive relationship building. Second thing to say is that I think referrals are really important.

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

And sort of a few years ago, we would sometimes see referrals a bit later than we would have liked. We are Seeing referrals at an earlier time point, especially at a point that I feel that I can really help a patient. Is it normally the oncologist who’s making the referrals to you or do they come from people outside of oncology?

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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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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

6 This graph shows the association between primary care physician density and life expectancy among US states: 3. Having Your Own Long-Term GP Can Save Your Life Patients who choose a GP rather than a specialist as their primary care provider have a 19% 8 lower mortality and produce 22% 9 -33% 8 lower healthcare spending.