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Many people are tired of grappling with long COVID—here are some evidence-based ways to counter it

Medical Xpress

She developed COVID-19 during the 2020 Christmas holiday and saw me during the summer of 2021. Previously, her primary care doctor had recommended a graded exercise program. A patient of mine, once a marathon runner, now gets tired just walking around the block. But exercise exhausted her.

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An Escape Fire for Healthcare

Noreta Family Medicine

I ended up opening Noreta Family Medicine in 2020, a Direct Primary Care (DPC). I would argue that DPC is an escape fire for the larger primary care ecosystem. One study showed that the average primary care visit is 18.9 I wish this patient had known about Direct Primary Care at that time.

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

GeriPal

A 2020 RCT of coaching for primary care physicians shows that coaching improves burnout well-being during the intervention and has a sustained duration at 6 months of follow up. Eric: … in geriatrics as a primary care doctor? From Beth Israel and UNC. Greg: Yeah. I teach coaching skills to leaders.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

That was January 2020. I was, you know, in the ICU over at Brigham and Women’s leading a Covid sort of palliative care team. We had, you know, it was a Monday night in June of 2020. And I turned to my dad and I said, I think mom needs palliative care. And she did have a primary care doctor.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

Ryan: For those of you that aren’t familiar, GERI-A-FLOAT stands for Geriatrics Fellows Learning Online and Together it was created amongst the COVID pandemic in 2020 when all of the fellowship rotations were shutting down. How do we train primary care doctors to do geriatrics? Eric: Can I just add it?

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

A recent study of almost 3 million US patients showed that those who visited primary care were much more likely to receive preventive services : 127% more vaccinations, 122% more colonoscopies, and 75% more mammograms. As shown in the following graph, primary care services amount for only 8.1%