Primary Care Pod

Let's review a clinical trial of medical cannabis use in chronic pain patients with the goal of reducing daily MME dose.

Interesting Study out of the Netherlands on different typing speeds in clinical practice by age, gender, medical role, and specialty. 

Take home - You aren't as fast as a typer as you think!

Kicking 2023 year off with a topic on Motivational Interviewing, and what I'm focusing on to help patients make healthy choices and beneficial lifestyle changes for this year.

Thanks to Dr. Leah Prestbo, you the MVP.

Today we discuss a recent study looking at intra-articular steroid injections for knee arthritis vs. IM steroid injections in the glute.  Non-inferior???

Apparently, the relationship between HDL and coronary artery disease is much more complicated than previously thought. Low HDL doesn't matter if you are black? Let's read about a November 2022 study from JACC.

Last decade, data has pointed us to prescribe BP meds at night, new study says, maybe it doesn't matter?

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SHOCKING! DRAMA! Not really, so let's dig into the details from NEJM October article on colonoscopy RCT in Europe.

I HAVE NOTHING TO PUT IN HERE, JUST LISTEN OK.

Works!  How Well? Well, pretty good. Let's get more details!

1. New classifications for your documentation - HFrEF, HFmrEF, HFpEf, HFiEF

2. Medications for HFrEF, HFmrEF

3. Medications for HFpEF.

4. MEMORIZE ALL THE ACRONYMS

Not smoking cessation, but SITTING CESSATION? How a British RCT showed that PCPs can improved hours of sedentary sitting per day, and make changes to patient's overall wellbeing and ? health? 

Let's discuss!

WELCOME BACK.

Let's talk about a recent study last month on treatment options for painful neuropathy in diabetes. Monotherapy or dual therapy? Is More Better? Is this practice changing? Do I like typing questions in here? Find out in this episode!

Let's talk about cfDNA and how a new test is soon to be coming to a PCP office near you to screen healthy patients for all cancers in a single blood test.

On today's episode: Standard opening and joke, but with a new sponsorship from Panacea Financial!

Pod Episode is on an interesting study from last month on management of hyperkalemia with patients on ACE/ARBs that I thought was super interesting and very relevant to primary care.  Hope you agree!

Let's talk and review research (and future treatments of LpA) on today's episode of the PCP.

*sigh* Alzheimer's disease is awful. 

Let's talk about management, or at least how best to handle it.