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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

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Links to a few couple items mentioned on the podcast: Objectives for Advance Care Planning. 2018 Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews on ACP. I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have. And I don’t think necessarily, that appointment needs to be a medicalized process. AlexSmithMD.

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

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Eric: For those of you don’t know, Emmy was on our podcast back in 2018 … man, pre-COVID times. If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would. And the primary care provider had assumed he was no longer driving, I think.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

million people in 2018), shows that the longer you know your GP, the better off you are. Because chronic diseases are largely managed in primary care and are therefore the GPs’ daily business: Patients with multimorbidity account for 78% of GP appointments (based on 100,000 UK patients). million Canadian patients).