Dr. Michael Bazel

APRIL 29, 2025

When it comes to taking care of your health, proactive choices today can prevent serious problems tomorrow. For too many men, however, routine checkups and health screenings tend to fall by the wayside — often until symptoms become unavoidable. Regular screenings help identify risk factors early, long before symptoms appear.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Discover the Best Primary Care in Michigan As an experienced doctor who has worked with thousands of patients across Michigan, I can confidently say that finding the right primary care provider is one of the most important decisions you can make for your health. Primary care is your go-to for all things health-related.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As she said, when you think about the hardest patients you’ve cared for, in nearly all cases there was some aspect of psychological illness involved. Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). That rings true to me.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Content Warning: This episode contains themes of violence, trauma-induced mental health concerns, and brief mentions of suicide. Appreciate how intergenerational trauma may surface amongst Asian-Americans, and how these intergenerational relationships may also offer fertile ground for generating understanding.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

Episode Learning Objectives After listening to this episode, learners will be able to: Illustrate the relationship between narrative medicine and healing relationships. What the term gestures towards is the centering of the ‘story’ in healing relationships. The show notes for this episode were written by Sudarshan Krishnamurthy.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today. One example that is presented involves the complicated relationship between the United States and Chinese immigrants and farmworkers in California.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. And so, let’s help them.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. Your research is a lot in this patient population, right? Big randomized control study that came out.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Welcome back, William. William: Thanks so much.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Our guests are BJ Miller, palliative care physician and c-founder of Mettle Health , and Naomi Saks, chaplain at UCSF. Panelists BJ Miller and Naomi Saks have no relationships to disclose. What do we mean by health? I think even the word patient, patient, I think, comes from the word suffer, the one who suffers.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. It is a screening? These studies are important. I guess FICA is not as cool as SKY. Is it an assessment?

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients? Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. It’s not like societally we make that understanding clear.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

How to be sensitive to the risks of stereotyping based on recommendations from the few members of the board to the many heterogeneous patients served? And so it was really the patients, you know, the caregivers, the family members were the ones who were sort of the closest in observing. Who would/should be on that board?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

So it’s just every single part of our life is affected and mental health issues. And that’s a good thing to share with an older patient or client that making decisions about your activity. I mean, many people in their mid to older years are on certain medications. And then access to those. So we could go on.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 8, 2025

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

These screening measures help identify conditions in their earliest stages. At Mesa Family Physicians, we follow the CDC-recommended immunization schedules for all age groups and work with patients to ensure they’re up-to-date on all recommended vaccines.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2023

A lot of compounding trauma occurs at the border that has potential downstream mental health implications for individuals and their families. Refer to Good Sanctuary Doctoring for Undocumented Patients for more information. Mark Kuczewski’s sanctuary doctrine toolkit that focuses more on the individual level.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

So you plan on your geriatrician, older patients, getting it every year. And to be very fair, there was a study in 2013 in family practice, this would be important, I think for those who treat older patients. Monica: And the patient said, “I don’t like my doctor wearing masks.” So where are we?

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