A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 18, 2025

My theory is that the behavioral health staff members felt isolated and not integrated with the primary care providers. These are some examples of conventional doctorspeak and suggested alternatives from the video presentation we watched by Alexander Blount, Ed. about the Patient-Centered Medical Home. .:

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Nate also wrote a NEJM piece last year on Alzheimers Disease, Biomarkers, and mAbs What Does Primary Care Need? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. When you think about getting your groceries, going to doctor’s appointments, going to religious services, if that’s important to you. How did you both get interested in this as a topic?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I worry, as a ex-primary care doctor, how much time I have. So I do think it often does happen that younger adults appoint a surrogate when they engage in estate planning, for example. And I don’t think necessarily, that appointment needs to be a medicalized process. It created a lot of challenges.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

GPs Provide Most Healthcare The following graph shows that by far most patient/doctor contacts are with GPs. On average, twice as many patients have contact with GPs than with all specialists (in offices and/or outpatient clinics) combined. 21 More than 45% of primary care patients have multimorbidity (based on 700,000 US patients).

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