A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 18, 2025

The piece quoted below blends the importance of choosing the right, nonjudgmental, words to describe our patients’ symptoms and personalities with the idea that we cannot treat their seemingly physical symptoms without trying to understand the context they arose from. about the Patient-Centered Medical Home.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Both conditions can present with similar symptoms. Adolescents with GERD often present similarly to adults with heartburn and regurgitation as the primary complaints. And the presentation for GERD varies by age. Now there are some risk factors for GERD.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Joe 18:38 Yeah, you know, it’s interesting, Soo, I’m doing a county by county visit here in Minnesota where I actually give a presentation on the basics of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Eric 26:16 I would also say, having tried to find a primary care doctor out there in the wild, you can’t.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

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. Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. Eric 23:11 Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. It’s like breaking bad news in palliative care. And I’ve been to some presentations that use that same breaking bad news model for having these driving conversations, as are used in palliative care. Those things do just accumulate with age.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Nate also wrote a NEJM piece last year on Alzheimers Disease, Biomarkers, and mAbs What Does Primary Care Need? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? And I pretty much present it as. Does a good history matter anymore?

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PEMBlog

APRIL 4, 2025

This episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast focuses on the approach to unvaccinated or undervaccinated children aged 336 months presenting to the ED with fever. The episode emphasizes thoughtful, individualized care in the context of rising vaccine hesitancy and declining immunization rates. Interesting.

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