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4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) projects the country will be short 87,150 primary care doctors, 11,860 dentists, 79,160 psychologists—along with shortages of other key specialties—in 2037. These professionals play a vital role in maintaining essential services and ensuring continuity of patient care.

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Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Priority Physicians

of adults in the state showed significant symptoms of anxiety or depression in 2023. Tips to Manage Anxiety If anxieties disable your daily life, discuss the situation with your direct primary care doctor. Regularly talking with people you care about may help you avoid the need for antidepressants.

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

GeriPal

Hot off the presses RCT in JAMA October 2023: Study that looks at 1000 female resident physicians at 26 sites that showed that coaching improved each outcome assessed (burnout, moral injury, imposter syndrome, self-compassion, and flourishing). Eric: … in geriatrics as a primary care doctor? AlexSmithMD 1.

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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

Most sore throats heal on their own, but severe cases may require urgent care. Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. If your symptoms get worse before your appointment, you may need to go to urgent care.

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

GeriPal

Like this year, 287 geriatric fellows started in 2023, which really isn’t a big change over the last 10 years. And he asked me questions like, “Why is this patient in bed? And then I had the opportunity to really interact and work with a lot of geriatricians, and I really was attracted to the care of older people.

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Podcast Episode: The Unvaccinated Child with Fever

PEMBlog

So as of the 2023-24 school year, about 3.3% 2023 translates to about 80,000 kids in the United States, and vaccination coverage varies across states. So in the 2023-24 school year. of their patients were fully vaccinated, five and a half percent were under vaccinated, and 3% were unvaccinated. Unfortunately. Interesting.

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Not Only Harvard. RFK Jr.’s Slashed Science Funding Cuts Across States That Backed Trump

Physicians News Digest

Harm to HIV, Vaccine Studies The NIH, with its nearly $48 billion annual budget, is the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, awarding nearly 59,000 grants in the 2023 fiscal year. In November 2023, he told an anti-vaccine group, “I’m gonna say to NIH scientists, ‘God bless you all. Thank you for public service.