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How to Prepare for Your Preventive Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

Unlike appointments that address specific illnesses or injuries, preventive care visits focus on screening for potential health issues, assessing your overall wellness, and helping you establish healthy habits before problems develop. Consider creating a health folder containing this information that you update and bring to each appointment.

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What every physician should know about care experience (and why it matters)

Permanente Medicine

When you put in that referral, how do we make sure that that patient walks out with the specialty appointment versus phone tag. Let’s say a diabetic comes in and they’re on metformin. Let’s say you see someone and they have ruptured Achilles and you need to send them to orthopedics, they need surgery.

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Anti-Asian Hate: Russell Jeung, Lingsheng Li, & Jessica Eng

GeriPal

We discuss: What is considered a hate incident, how is it tracked, what do we know about changes over time The wider impact of Anti-Asian hate on older Asians, who are afraid to go out, leading to anxiety, social isolation, loneliness, decreased exercise, missed appointments and medications. I mean, these visits with pcps are 15 minutes.