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>Pathways to Primary Care - Charting trajectories from medical school graduation through specialty training [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Shortages of primary care (PC) physicians threaten access, quality, and equity in US healthcare. Dataset: AMA Physician Masterfile and Historical Residency File (2024). Policy solutions require insight into complex patterns of training from medical school graduation through specialty training into PC careers.

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Coming Soon: Logansport Memorial Pain Management Center

Logansport Memorial Hospital

Logansport Memorial Hospital is pleased to announce the opening of a new pain management center on April 1, 2024. Together with the Pain Management Group (PMG), Logansport Memorial is dedicated to providing high-quality care right here in our community.

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Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist

Priority Physicians

Should you check in with your primary care physician or skip that step and go to a specialist, assuming your physician will send you there anyway? But if you’re a patient of a direct primary care (DPC) practice , you don’t need to guess about orthopedic pain management. On the drive home, it’s swelling and painful.

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Q&A: Physicians Weigh Improvements in MASLD Treatment Against Gaps in Assessment Strategies

Physician's Weekly

This is a well-done and concise summary of where we are in 2024 in trying to tackle the immense public health problem of MASLD.” Srivastava: The findings can significantly influence patient care by encouraging clinicians to prioritize weight management in MASLD treatment plans.

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Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Priority Physicians

Physical Effects of Anxiety Anxiety levels in Indiana are high — 32.9% Tips to Manage Anxiety If anxieties disable your daily life, discuss the situation with your direct primary care doctor. Release Stress Anxiety can be pathologic, resulting from a physical or mental disorder beyond an individual’s control.

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Trading One Substance for Another: Replacing Alcohol With THC

Priority Physicians

He thinks legalization is a mistake , characterizing THC as addictive, mentally and physically disorienting, and a gateway to the misuse of other drugs. Direct primary care aims to improve your life until there’s no need to numb it! Are you considering replacing alcohol with weed or THC? Let us know how we can help.

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Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

The intervention involved mailing medication-specific brochures to patients before their primary care appointments (click here for the brochure ). Within the VA , there’s a program called Whole Health, which is really about trying to engage patients in many different modalities for pain management and just self care.