Noreta Family Medicine

MARCH 26, 2025

Many of our patients have shared how they often felt rushed at their previous primary care doctor’s office, leaving appointments with lingering concerns. For instance, when a patient recently texted us with complaints of shoulder pain after a fall, Dr. Boylan arranged an appointment and ordered an X-ray — all within just a few hours. “

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Appointment Family Medicine DO 52

Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

Calling to schedule the next available appointment and taking time off work. A 2022 article in the Harvard Business Review introduced the term sludge to describe “these types of situations in which the design of a specific process consistently impedes individuals from completing their intended action.” Travel to the doctor’s office.

Screening 52

Screening Insurance Primary Care Referral 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. So delivering those month visits in clinic, often in tandem with their other oncology appointments.

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

They’re still engaging fully with their family and with the activities and the hobbies that they’re still able to do. I’m having family meetings to talk about goals of…” They have so many competing demands that you ask, “Do you do any 30 to 45 minute counseling sessions on a regular basis?

Mental Health 122

Mental Health Patient-Centered Illness Screening 122

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Have you had a family history of substance use disorder? Should it just be referral to their PMD, who’s all, “Why are these people telling me to do all this stuff all the time?”

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. And then the family tells me they can’t keep an appointment, they can’t manage their finances. Well, even for somebody like you, who’s pretty familiar with the instruments, it might cause distress for the patient, maybe their family.

Primary Care 95

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 95

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Families Family GP 130