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An Escape Fire for Healthcare

Noreta Family Medicine

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care. minutes long.

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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

Written by Pat Moody on Moody on the Market When it comes to healthcare, and primary care in particular, it has become increasingly difficult to remain successful as a small, independent practice. Direct Primary Care is owned and operated by Doctors Michael Eggebrecht, Leanne Mancini, Allison Meadows, and James Gendernalik.

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Q&A: Cannabis Use Tied to Reduced Working Memory

Physician's Weekly

Gowin and his colleagues analyzed data from 1,003 adults between 22 and 36 years of age who had functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), urine toxicology, and cannabis use results collected at one academic site between 2012 and 2015 as part of the Human Connectome Project. The cohort (mean age, 28.7 It’s more complicated than that.

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Episode 384: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 26 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 1

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Benton) 13:08 Youth Suicide Crisis Discussion, “Ringing the Alarm” 20:10 Shift in Issue Framing in the Literature 24:31 The Network Begins with Primary Care 28:42 Diversifying your Outreach 30:54 Cultural Humility Speaker Biographies Dr. Tami Benton, MD , is the Frederick Allen Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.

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The burden of mental health on Canadian primary care following Covid-19 [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: In Canada, most of the population relies on their family doctor for their mental healthcare needs. Objective: To measure and compare the proportion of primary care visits associated with mental health before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Dataset: Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN) database.

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Does transitional care management improve outcomes after discharge from the hospital?

Common Sense Family Doctor

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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Human papillomavirus vaccination in community-based clinics among adolescents by ethnicity, country of birth, and sex [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective To determine if there are differences in HPV vaccine uptake among children and adolescents in community-based healthcare organizations by ethnicity and country of birth, stratified by sex. It remains uncertain how ethnicity and country of birth relate to HPV vaccination among younger Latinos.