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3 Conditions Internal Medicine Can Treat

Hitchcock Family Medicine

Regularly visiting your doctor is important for maintaining optimal health. According to the American College of Physicians, a physician who specializes in internal medicine focuses on the treatment of sickness and diseases in adults. This type of doctor is often referred to as an internist or primary care doctor.

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How to Choose the Best Hormone Doctor in Connecticut for Your Needs

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

Here are some tips for choosing the best Connecticut-based hormone doctor for your unique needs. Ask for Recommendations When you’re looking for a hormone doctor, people you trust can provide valuable recommendations. Friends and family members who’ve seen a hormone doctor are another useful source of recommendations.

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

GeriPal

I was coaching someone this morning, who really wanted to know, what does your clinic template look like, and how do you respond to patient messages? Eric: … in geriatrics as a primary care doctor? Medicine’s a tough road for everybody, and we put all kinds of barriers in the way in addition.

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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. When I see a patient? Matthew, I get the lyrics.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

We talked with Thor Ringler, who helped found the My Life My Story Project at the VA and beyond, and Heather Coats about the evidence base for capturing patient stories. And it was born when I was a medical resident at UCSF Internal Medicine. Because we all interface with it at the end of the day as patients.

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