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Primary Care Provider Perspectives at an Academic Medical Center: Are Telemedicine Visits as Effective as In-person Care? [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: As academic medical centers purposefully integrate telemedicine visits into primary care, efficacy studies are needed to appropriately guide resource allocation and triage processes. Setting: Providers across six Northern California clinic sites surveyed over an 8-week period (March 21-May 16, 2023).

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Insurers Promise to Speed Up Delays in Health Care Approvals

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Adam Gaffney , a critical care doctor and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, told NBC News. Insurance companies have promised changes like these before, in 2018 and 2023, but many didn’t follow through, Dr. Mehmet Oz , head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said. Talk is cheap,” Gaffney said.

Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Priority Physicians

JANUARY 27, 2025

Physical Effects of Anxiety Anxiety levels in Indiana are high — 32.9% 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. Can we learn how to stop fearing the future?

Primary Care Doctor

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Q&A: Prioritizing Early Intervention in Pediatric Obesity

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

PW : How can early obesity prevention improve the future of pediatric care? Ihuoma Eneli, MD, MS: Childhood obesity is associated with physical and psychosocial comorbidities that negatively affect the child’s health and quality of life. In addition, obesity in childhood often persists into adulthood `.

November is Diabetes Awareness Month

Family Physicians of Greeley

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Get a regular annual physical with your PCP (Primary Care Physician), get moderate physical activity at least 4-5 days per week (30 minutes), eat a healthy diet, and know your risk factors. Included in your annual physical is routine blood work that can detect diabetes before you have symptoms, such as Hemoglobin A1c.

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

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

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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How Doctors Can Save More and Do Less

The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Saving $23,000 when the national average unweighted resident salary in 2023, according to AAMC data , was $63,800. According to the latest Medscape Physician Compensation Report for 2024 , the average physician salary was approximately $363,000 ($277,000 for primary care and $394,000 for specialists). Set it and forget it!

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NIH to Fund $10M in Long-Term Health Studies After Ohio Train Disaster

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

MONDAY, June 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will fund studies of the long-term health effects of a 2023 Ohio train derailment that released more than 1 million pounds of hazardous chemicals into the soil, air and water.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population. We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care. They want a care model that’s flexible, not rigid.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome for the first time, guest Bill Ander e ch, who’s a primary care internist and senior scholar in Sutter Health’s program in M edicine and Human Values, a program that he co-founded with a former UCSF faculty member, Al Johnson. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal. Eric 46:49 Yeah.

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What are the signs of an eating disorder?

Vida Family Medicine

MARCH 1, 2023

This week, February 27-March 5, 2023, marks National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. At Vida Family Medicine we offer primary care services to individuals in recovery from eating disorders. If you or someone you love is suffering, I hope that this information will help you find the resources you need to find recovery.

Mental Health

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

In the United States in 2023, the truth of the matter is you don’t need very many individual risk factors to become homeless. These were usually very physically demanding, low paid, often usually non-union work, that they worked their whole lives and were hanging on by their fingernails. But it’s not a drug.

Mental Health

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We had, since the late seventies, a home-based primary care program. And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. We relied on our clinical experience as geriatricians, that home-based primary care experience.

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Podcast Episode: The Unvaccinated Child with Fever

PEMBlog

APRIL 4, 2025

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. When a complete history and physical examination cannot identify a specific source of fever greater than 39 centigrade or 102.2

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

See the AAHPM Legislative Action Center [link] Write to the DEA, with guidance from AAHPM’s comments to the DEA March 2023. In our particular practice, we take care of a very large population of patients with ALS who of course have a lot of physical disability. Start with a story as Carly did in her Op Ed. Stories trump data.

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Primary Care Provider Perspectives at an Academic Medical Center: Are Telemedicine Visits as Effective as In-person Care? [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Insurers Promise to Speed Up Delays in Health Care Approvals

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Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Q&A: Prioritizing Early Intervention in Pediatric Obesity

November is Diabetes Awareness Month

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

How Doctors Can Save More and Do Less

NIH to Fund $10M in Long-Term Health Studies After Ohio Train Disaster

PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

What are the signs of an eating disorder?

Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

Podcast Episode: The Unvaccinated Child with Fever

Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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