Primary Viewpoints: A Patient Care Podcast

This week on the Weekly Dose Podcast from Patient Care Online®, we break down five major clinical updates shaping primary care practice—from advances in Alzheimer diagnostics to new treatment options for menopause-related symptoms. In this episode: • First blood test for Alzheimer disease cleared for primary care The Elecsys pTau181 assay offers a minimally invasive way to help rule out AD-related...

In this episode of "The Weekly Dose" from Patient Care Online, we review top clinical updates: quitting smoking later in life slows cognitive decline; structured LARC counseling in primary care improves reproductive outcomes; starting benzodiazepines or antipsychotics in hospice dementia patients raises mortality risk; the FDA cleared the first blood-based Alzheimer disease biomarker test for prim...

In this episode of Primary Viewpoints, Patient Care editor Sydney Jennings speaks with Ada Stewart, MD, a board-certified family physician, about how primary care clinicians can support women in making informed decisions about cervical cancer screening. Dr Stewart breaks down the latest USPSTF guidelines, addresses patient hesitancy, discusses the role of HPV self-collection, and offers practical...

Dementia cases are rising—but early detection can slow cognitive decline, improve quality of life, and reduce caregiver burden. In this special World Brain Day episode of Primary Viewpoints, geriatrician Anna Chodos, MD, joins us to discuss why routine cognitive screening should be standard in primary care settings. Dr Chodos outlines actionable steps primary care teams can take to incorporate bri...

Welcome to the Patient Care® Online Primary Viewpoints podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in primary care sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with Heather Yun, MD, who served as IDWeek 2023 chair for the Infectious Disease Society of America, at the scientific sessions in Boston earlier this month about infectious disease surveillance in the US, the role...

Welcome to the Patient Care Online ® Primary Viewpoints podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in primary care sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with Anila Chadha, MD, about the correlation between chronic pain and obesity, including the long-term effects of pain conditions for patients with obesity, common types of pain conditions associated with obesity,...

Welcome to the Patient Care Online ® Primary Viewpoints podcast. Tune in to hear leaders in primary care sound off on topics that impact your clinical practice. In this episode, we spoke with William Schaffner, MD, a well-known infectious disease expert from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. He provides an update on th...

It is common for physicians to mask their emotional distress in front of colleagues and patients, making it crucial for clinicians to be on the lookout for signs of distress among their peers, according to Rebekah Bernard, MD, family physician and national speaker on physician wellness and practice management. On today’s episode of Primary Viewpoints , Dr Bernard shares common signs of emotional d...

Wide variation in response to current treatments for obesity suggest that the disease is really several diseases, with distinct phenotypes unlikely to respond the same way to the same intervention. Andres Acosta, MD, PhD, whose widely recognized research focuses on precision medicine in management of obesity, sat down with Patient Care Online and details how weight management interventions targete...

"Well, we're a little bit concerned about what might happen over the next 3 to 4 months," said Sterling Ransone, Jr, MD, referring to the 2022-23 respiratory virus season now in its very early weeks. Ransone, who is board chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), discusses what the AAFP and its members are most concerned about as the country prepares for a third season of cocircul...

Lynn R. Webster, MD, joins us in this episode to discuss findings from a large observational trial he co-authored that reviewed a mobile health technology platform developed to enhance communication between clinicians and patients with chronic pain. 

Clinician burnout has undoubtedly been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode of Primary Viewpoints , Ernest R. Gelb, DO, the 126th president of the American Osteopathic Association discusses how clinicians are faring currently during the COVID-19 pandemic and why humor can be beneficial for clinician wellness. 

Dr Hiddo Heerspink joins Primary Viewpoints to discuss findings he recently presented at the American Diabetes Association 2022 Scientific Sessions from a pre-specified analysis of the SURPASS-4 clinical trial of tirzepatide that looked for the first time at the effects of the novel GLP-1 receptor agonist on kidney function in patients with type 2 diabetes. Hiddo Heerspink, PhD, PharmD, is profess...

Dr Henry Mahncke joins Primary Viewpoints to talk about the impact of cannabis on brain health.  Dr Mahncke is a research neuroscientist, who serves as CEO of Posit Science Corporation, the leading provider of plasticity-based brain training and assessments. Dr. Mahncke is also principal investigator on several government grants and has been involved in numerous research studies on the impact of c...

Njira Lugogo, MD, sat down with Patient Care Online to discuss findings from the prespecified exploratory analysis of the NAVIGATOR study that she presented at ATS 2022.

What role do the newly approved oral migraine preventive medications play in treatment of migraine in primary care settings? We talked to headache specialist Dr Peter McAllister for answers.

Samoon Ahmad, MD, clinical professor of psychiatry at New York University Grossman School of Medicine, discusses his upcoming book titled Coping with COVID-19: The Mental, Medical, and Social Consequences of the Pandemic.

Obesity expert Ted Kyle joins us to discuss the prevalence of weight bias in health care, how media portrayal of patients with obesity exacerbates the issue, strategies primary care clinicians can use to check their own weight bias, and the advocacy work he is currently spearheading to change the narrative of weight stigma in health care.