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How to Manage Prediabetes with Food (What Actually Works)

Vida Family Medicine

Its job is to transport sugar from your bloodstream to the cells that need it—like your brain, muscles, or liver. Pre-diabetes is a condition where your blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. The main culprit? Insulin resistance.

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Common Myths about Varicose Veins

Vascular Physician

Varicose veins often present as blue, rope-like vessels under the skin usually in the legs and feet. Varicose veins are common and often present as rope-like blue vessels typically in the legs or feet. A primary care physician can recommend you to a vascular specialist that can quickly and easily treat your varicose veins today.

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

GeriPal

Alex 00:12 We have a guest host who has requested this episode, Matt Shuster, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program. So kind of from a primary care point of view, the guys are doing okay. He’s in Boston. And Matt brought today’s topic to us.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Emmy: Because if you’ve got other ways to get things delivered or you have good public transportation or you have a lot of family around, that’s a very different kind of calculus than if you live on your ranch and there’s no way to otherwise get to town, and there’s nobody else around. Absolutely.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

Today, we talk with Bernie Lo, prominent bioethicist and practicing primary care internist, and Laurie Dornbrand, geriatrician at the IOA On Lok PACE, about the legacy of Nancy Curzan. And I think DNR and transport to hospital are those kinds of things. We use Bernie’s NEJM Perspective as a springboard for discussion.

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

GeriPal

Suresh was a barge captain, a dangerous and thrilling profession that led him to transport goods across international waters. And so I think one thing we really like about not having it scripted word for word is the opportunity to kind of flex into that moment and just be present and kind of try that out. His face immediately lit up.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. We had, since the late seventies, a home-based primary care program. Annals of Int Med.

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