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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S.

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Is there enough time for prevention in primary care?

Common Sense Family Doctor

Family physicians are being squeezed by two accelerating trends: (1) too few of us to care for the growing US population and (2) the rising number of tasks that we are asked to accomplish for each patient. hours per day, with more than one-half of that time (14.1 hours) allocated to preventive care. hours) allocated to preventive care.

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The Physicians Foundation Continues Efforts to Tackle Chronic Disease—America’s Leading Cause of Death—by Addressing Drivers of Health

The Physicians Foundation

The Physicians Foundation announces the 2025 recipient of the Drivers of Health (DOH) Fellowship Program, urges physicians to screen patients for DOH BOSTON, May 21, 2025 – Today, The Physicians Foundation reinforces its efforts to help physicians address drivers of health (DOH) to improve a person’s overall health.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

So I think the first reason that we saw and felt the opportunity was ripe for updating was that some of us had come across some anecdotal examples of patients expressing some offense to that terminology. And I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive. Is the patient in your descriptor?

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STATEMENT RELEASE: Doctors for America’s FDA Task Force Statement on Decision to Withdraw FDA Ban on Menthol Cigarettes

Doctors for America

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doctors for America PO Box: 21161 2300 18th St NW Lbby Washington, DC 20009-9996 May 13, 2025 Doctors for America’s FDA Task Force Statement on Decision to Withdraw FDA Ban on Menthol Cigarettes WASHINGTON, D.C. Last month, the FDA fired dozens of staff at the Center for Tobacco Products.

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

Physicians News Digest

Many mirror the ambitions laid out in Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership,” the conservative playbook for Trump’s second term. in 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Kennedy has said the NIH should take a years-long pause from funding infectious disease research. Kennedy Jr.