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Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

And I think one key part is educating the field, not just my fellow cardiologists, but also primary care doctors, geriatricians, that there’s this heart failure syndrome that is kind of sneaky, and it’s kind of difficult to diagnose any. And, you know, this is back and forth between the PCP and the cardiologist.

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How to discuss stopping screening: Mara Schonberg

GeriPal

I talk to women 75 and older or something like it’s my job as your PCP to recommend tests that I think will lead to more good than to harm. 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.