Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Problem-based office visits address specific symptoms, manage existing health conditions, or follow up on previously identified concerns. Dr. Elena Washington, internal medicine specialist at Metropolitan Health Associates, clarifies: “Sometimes patients arrive for preventive visits with significant health concerns they want addressed.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . That was one thing.

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Illness IT Families Family 109

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

And so even being asked, you know, like, it’s very hard for an individual to feel, to say, yes, I’ve had recurrent trauma in my life and that’s affected my mental health, my physical health, my cognitive health, et cetera. Mariah 25:13 Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, saa.

IT 66

IT Patient-Centered Individual Screening 66

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

As you can imagine, get referrals from healthcare workers, emergency departments, primary care, cancer care hospital, you know, internal medicine to our service. It might have to do with a sensitivity around mental health. And that’s about half of our referrals. It makes you think differently of your care.

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Healthcare IT Community Illness 100

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

But those parents also mentioned they would appreciate if the clinician can use different resources like connect with other braved parents or provide professional support like mental health service or therapist to talk with them, which can help them a little bit to accept that sooner. Alex 40:06 I have a question.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Family 63

GeriPal

AUGUST 15, 2024

Lingsheng (and I) recently published studies on this in JAMA Internal Medicine , and JAGS. And that has an impact, as we’ve shown in the papers, on your social health, your mental health and physical health. So I think integrating mental health into their overall health is really important.

Mental Health 116

Mental Health Community IT Screening 116

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

And I was an internal medicine resident. We’ve seen the stigma associated with mental health. And then once I came to the United States, I saw this whole different dimension of pain, because I started residency in 2011, this was really at the peak of the opioid prescription epidemic, if you may.

Patient-Centered 105

Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. To Susan’s point. Older people don’t live in the Offices for the Aging. They touch every single system. I won’t even get into problem gambling.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. You said this journey started for you back in what? Malaz: 1999, my friend.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? Using data from wearable devices, internet searches, and purchasing history?

Patient-Centered 108

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 108

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

NIH study about long COVID published the day before in Annals of Internal Medicine. Part of our recovery is mental health and seeing each other’s faces. But boy, I think for mental health, human beings need to not only see each other, but see each other’s faces. Our World in Data COVID graphs.

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