A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 18, 2025

My theory is that the behavioral health staff members felt isolated and not integrated with the primary care providers. These are some examples of conventional doctorspeak and suggested alternatives from the video presentation we watched by Alexander Blount, Ed. about the Patient-Centered Medical Home.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Joe 03:55 You know, my thoughts are screening is important for a variety of reasons, and certainly Doctor Boris and Soo and Anna, Doctor chodos can provide a lot greater clinical insight than I. There has to be effective support provided behind any type of screening strategy in order for it to truly be effective.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Join me as I scope out the nuances of gastroesophageal reflux and gastritis and provide practical insights for clinicians in the emergency setting. Both conditions can present with similar symptoms. And the presentation for GERD varies by age.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. John: I am what I am, which is a family practice doctor. Jane: Right.

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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

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. So that’s a piece that I think is important for providers anywhere along that process to be asking about driving.

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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? So for primary care providers, you order that blood test, you own that.

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