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Study finds primary care physicians increasingly treat mental health concerns

Medical Xpress

A new study has found that patients are increasingly likely to discuss mental health concerns with the doctor they often know best: their primary care physician.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. Michele: Yep.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

GeriPal

And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. Eric 00:50 So we’re going to be talking about HIV and geriatrics and palliative care. Is that what you’re seeing as a palliative care provider now or. Eric 18:33 Why did they do that?

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

Common Sense Family Doctor

Despite this deliberately circumscribed mandate (I lost count of the number of times during my tenure as an AHRQ medical officer from 2006-2010 that I was told, "We don't make guidelines. You need not be ill enough to be hospitalized or care about practice guidelines to suffer if AHRQ is eliminated for good.